title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
The Darling and Other Stories | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 | en | | The Darling -- Ariadne -- Anyuta -- The Two Volodyas -- The Trousseau -- The Helpmate -- Talent -- An Artist's Story -- Three Years. | Garnett, Constance, 1861-1946 [Translator] | | 2004-09-09 |
Worldly Ways and Byways | Gregory, Eliot, 1854-1915 | en | | Charm -- The moth and the star -- Contrasted travelling -- The outer and the inner woman -- On some gilded misalliances -- The complacency of mediocrity -- The discontent of talent -- Slouch -- Social suggestion -- Bohemia -- Social exiles -- "Seven Ages" of furniture -- Our elite and public life -- The small summer hotel -- A false start -- A holy land -- Royalty at play -- A rock ahead -- The Grand Prix -- "The treadmill" -- "Like master like man" -- An English invasion of the Riviera -- A common weakness -- Changing Paris -- Contentment -- The climber -- The last of the dandies -- A nation on the wing -- Husks -- The Faubourg St. Germain -- Men's manners -- An ideal hostess -- The introducer -- A question and an answer -- Living on Your friends -- American society in Italy -- The Newport of the past -- A conquest of Europe -- A race of slaves -- Introspection. | | Sociology; American essays -- 19th century | 1995-12-01 |