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Swallow: a tale of the great trekHaggard, Henry Rider, 1856-1925en2006-04-13
Joy in the MorningAndrews, Mary Raymond Shipman, 1860-1936enThe Ditch -- Her Country Too -- The Swallow -- Only One of Them -- The V.C. -- He That Loseth His Life Shall Find It -- The Silver Stirrup -- The Russian -- Robina's Doll -- Dundonald's Destroyer2005-05-08
In Midsummer Days, and Other TalesStrindberg, August, 1849-1912enIn midsummer days.--The big gravel-sifter.--The sluggard.--The pilot's troubles.--Photographer and philosopher.--Half a sheet of foolscap.--Conquering hero and fool.--What the tree-swallow sang in the buckthorn tree.--The mystery of the tobacco shed.--The story of the St. Gotthard.--The story of Jubal who had no "I".--The golden helmets in the Alleberg.--Little Bluewing find the goldpowder.2004-10-01
Yorkshire Ditties, First Series To Which Is Added The Cream Of Wit And Humour From His Popular WritingsHartley, John, 1839-1915enBite Bigger -- To th' Swallow -- Plenty o' Brass -- Th' Little Stranger -- Babby Burds -- Wayvin Mewsic -- That's a Fact -- Stop at Hooam -- The Short Timer -- Th' First o'th' Soart -- Lines on Finding a Butterfly in a Weaving Shed -- Uncle Ben -- The New Year's Resolve -- The Old Bachelor's Story -- Aght o' Wark -- Another Babby -- The Little Black Hand -- Lily's Gooan -- My Native Twang -- Shoo's thi' Sister -- Persevere -- To a Roadside Flower -- The New Year -- Valentine Day -- March Winds -- April Fooils -- Policeman's Scrape -- Information -- Watterin' Places -- Flaar Shows -- October Ale -- Force of Example -- Gunpaader Plot -- Th' Last Month -- Meditated Strike -- New Year's Parties -- Smiles, Tears, Getting on -- Mysterious Disappearance -- Sam it up -- Fooils -- Cleanin' Daan Month -- Hay-making -- Hollingworth Lake -- Plagues -- End o'th' Year -- Scientific -- Valentine Dream2006-01-06
Told in the Coffee House Turkish TalesenHow the Hodja saved Allah -- Better is the folly of woman than the wisdom of man -- The Hanoum and the unjust Cadi -- What happended to Hadji, a merchant of the Bezestan -- How the junkman travelled to find treasure in his own yard -- How Chapkin Halid became chief detective -- How cobbler Ahmet became the chief astrologer -- The wise son of Ali Pasha -- The merciful Khan -- King Kara-Kush of Bithynia -- The prayer rug and the dishonest steward -- The goose, the eye, the daughter and the arm -- The forty wise men -- How the priest knew that it would snow -- Who was the thirteenth son? -- Paradise sold by the yard -- Jew turned Turk -- The metamorphosis -- The Calif Omar -- Kalaidji Avram of Balata -- How Mehmet Ali Pasha of Egypt administered justice -- How the farmer learned to cure his wife, a Turkish Aesop -- The language of birds -- The swallow's advice -- We know not what the dawn may bring forth -- Old men made young -- The bribe -- How the Devil lost his wager -- The effects of Raki.Tales -- Turkey; Folklore -- Turkey2009-12-02
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IIenOf Companions and Flatterers. by Steele The Story-Teller and His Art. by Steele Sir Roger and the Widow. by Steele The Coverley Family Portraits. by Steele On Certain Symptoms of Greatness. by Steele How to Be Happy tho Married. by Steele Of the Shortness of Human Life. by Bolingbroke Rules for the Study of History. by Bolingbroke An Ancient English Country Seat. by Pope His Compliments to Lady Mary. by Pope How to Make an Epic Poem. by Pope On Happiness in the Matrimonial State. by Montagu Inoculation for the Smallpox. by Montagu Of Good Manners, Dress and the World. by Chesterfield Of Attentions to Ladies. by Chesterfield Tom the Hero Enters the Stage; Partridge Sees Garrick at the Play. by Fielding from "Tom Jones" Mr. Adams in a Political Light. by Fielding from "Joseph Andrews" On Publishing His "Dictionary." by Johnson from the "Dictionary" Pope and Dryden Compared. by Johnson from the "Lives of the Poets" Letter to Chesterfield on the Completion of the "Dictionary." by Johnson from Boswell's "Life" On the Advantages of Living in a Garret. by Johnson The Character of Queen Elizabeth; The Defeat of the Armada. by Hume from the "History of England" The First Principles of Government. by Hume The Starling in Captivity; To Moulines with Maria. by Sterne from "The Sentimental Journey" The Death of LeFevre; Passages from the Romance of My Uncle Toby and the Widow. by Sterne from "Tristram Shandy" Warwick Castle. by Gray To His Friend Mason on the Death of Mason's Mother. by Gray On His Own Writings. by Gray His Friendship for Bonstetten. by Gray Hogarth. by Walpole from the "Anecdotes of Painting in England" The War in America. by Walpole The Death of George II. by Walpole The Chimney Swallow. by White from "The Natural History of Selborne" Of Ambition Misdirected. by Smith from the "Theory of Moral Sentiments" The Advantages of a Division of Labor. b2007-06-08




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