title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
The Garden Party and Other Stories | Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 | en | | At the bay -- The garden party -- The daughters of the late colonel -- Mr and Mrs Dove -- The young girl -- Life of Ma Parker -- Marriage a la mode -- The voyage -- Miss Brill -- Her first ball -- The singing lesson -- The stranger -- Bank holiday -- An ideal family -- The lady's maid. | | Short stories, New Zealand; New Zealand -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 1998-08-01 |
The Untilled Field | Moore, George (George Augustus), 1852-1933 | en | | In the clay -- Some parishioners -- The exile -- Home sickness -- A letter to Rome -- Julia Cahill's curse -- A playhouse in the waste -- The wedding-gown -- The clerk's quest -- "Alms-giving." -- So on he fares -- The wild goose -- The way back. | | Ireland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Ireland -- Emigration and Immigration -- Fiction | 2003-05-01 |
Children of Borneo | Gomes, Edwin Herbert, 1862- | en | | | | Children -- Borneo; Borneo -- Social life and customs | 2009-01-14 |
Life and sport in China
Second Edition | Ready, Oliver George | en | | | | Sports -- China; China -- Social life and customs | 2008-08-24 |
The Schoolmistress, and other stories | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 | en | | The schoolmistress -- A nervous breakdown -- Misery -- Champagne -- After the theatre -- A lady's story -- In exile -- The cattle dealers -- Sorrow -- On official duty -- The first-class passenge -- A tragic actor -- A transgression -- Small fry -- The requiem -- In the coach-house -- Panic fears -- The bet -- The head gardener's story -- The beauties -- The shoemaker and the devil | | Short stories; Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2006-02-22 |
More Cargoes
1897 | Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark), 1863-1943 | en | | Smoked skipper -- A safety match -- A rash experiment -- The cabin passenger -- "Choice spirits" -- A disciplinarian -- Brother Hutchins -- The disbursement sheet -- Rule of three -- Pickled herring -- Two of a trade -- An intervention -- The grey parrot -- Money changers -- The lost ship. | | Humorous stories, English; England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; River life -- Fiction | 2008-06-12 |
Nights With Uncle Remus | Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908 | en | | | Winter, Milo, 1886-1956 [Illustrator] | Animals -- Fiction; Georgia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Remus, Uncle (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Plantation life -- Fiction; African American men -- Fiction | 2008-01-26 |
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904 | en | | The awakening -- Beyond the Bayou -- Maáme Pélagle -- Désirée's baby -- A respectable woman -- The kiss -- A pair of silk stockings -- The locket -- A reflection. | | Adultery -- Fiction; Women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- Fiction; Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction; New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction; Louisiana -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2006-03-11 |
Country Lodgings | Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855 | en | | | | Short stories; Country life -- England -- Fiction; England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Pastoral fiction; Courtship -- Fiction; Widows -- Fiction | 2007-10-02 |
Nights With Uncle Remus
Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation | Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908 | en | | | | African American men -- Fiction; Animals -- Fiction; Georgia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Plantation life -- Fiction; Remus, Uncle (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | 2008-08-25 |
Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life | Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 | en | | The book of the grotesque -- Hands -- Paper pills -- Mother -- The philosopher -- Nobody knows -- Godliness -- A man of ideas -- Adventure -- Respectability -- The thinker -- Tandy -- The strength of God -- The teacher -- Loneliness -- An awakening -- "Queer" -- The untold lie -- Drink -- Death -- Sophistication -- Departure. | | Ohio -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; City and town life -- Fiction; Pastoral fiction | 1996-02-01 |
Hell Fer Sartain and Other Stories | Fox, John, 1863-1919 | en | | On Hell-fer-Sartain Creek -- Through the gap -- A trick o' trade -- Grayson's baby -- Courtin' on Cutshin -- The message in the sand -- The senator's last trade -- Preachin' on Kingdom-Come -- The passing of Abraham Shivers -- A purple rhododendron. | | Short stories; Mountain life -- Fiction; Cumberland Mountains -- Fiction; Kentucky -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 1996-01-01 |
Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales | Stuart, Ruth McEnery, 1856-1917 | en | | Solomon Crow's Christmas pockets -- The two Tims -- The Freys' Christmas party -- Little Mother Quackalina -- Old Easter -- Saint Idyl's light -- "Blink" -- Duke's Christmas -- Uncle Ephe's advice to Brer Rabbit -- May be so. | | New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction; Louisiana -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Christmas stories | 2009-01-12 |
Tales of Two Countries | Kielland, Alexander Lange, 1849-1906 | en | | Pharaoh -- The parsonage -- The peat moor -- "Hope's clad in April green" -- At the fair -- Two friends -- A good conscience -- Romance and reality -- Withered leaves -- The battle of Waterloo. | | Kielland, Alexander Lange, 1849-1906 -- Translations into English; Norway -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2005-08-01 |
Reginald | Saki, 1870-1916 | en | | Reginald -- Reginald on Christmas Presents -- Reginald on the Academy -- Reginald at the Theatre -- Reginald's Peace Poem -- Reginald's Choir Treat -- Reginald on Worries -- Reginald on House-Parties -- Reginald at the Carlton -- Reginald on Besetting Sins -- Reginald's Drama -- Reginald on Tariffs -- Reginald's Christmas Revel -- Reginald's Rubaiyat -- The Innocence of Reginald. | | Short stories, English; England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Humorous stories, English | 2001-09-01 |
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier | Bronson, Edgar Beecher, 1856-1917 | en | | Loving's bend -- A cow-hunters' court -- A self-constituted executioner -- Triggerfingeritis -- A juggler with death -- An aerial bivouac -- The evolution of a train robber -- Circus day at Mancos -- Across the border -- The three-legged doe and the blind buck -- The Lemon County hunt -- El Tigre -- Bunkered -- They who must be obeyed -- Djama Aout's heroism -- A modern Coeur-de-lion. | | Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs | 2007-08-17 |
Peak and Prairie
From a Colorado Sketch-book | Fuller, Anna, 1853-1916 | en | | Preface -- A pilgrim in the far West -- Brian Boru -- Jake Stanwood's gal -- At the Keith ranch -- The Rumpety case -- The Lame Gulch professor -- The boss of the wheel -- Mr. Fetherbee's adventure -- An amateur gamble -- A Rocky Mountain shipwreck -- A stroke in the game -- The blizzard picnic -- A golden vista. | Moore, Emma G. [Illustrator] | Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction; Colorado -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2007-08-03 |
Pardners | Beach, Rex Ellingwood, 1877-1949 | en | | Pardners -- The mule driver and the garrulous mute -- The colonel and the horse-thief -- The thaw at Slisco's -- Bitter Root Billings, arbiter -- The shyness of Shorty -- The test -- North of fifty-three -- Where northern lights come down o' nights -- The scourge. | | Western stories; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction; West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Short stories | 2004-08-08 |
A Little Girl in Old Quebec | Douglas, Amanda Minnie, 1831-1916 | en | | | | Orphans -- Juvenile fiction; Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France) -- Juvenile fiction; Québec (Québec) -- Juvenile fiction; Canada -- Social life and customs -- To 1763 -- Juvenile fiction | 2007-12-09 |
Fathers and Children | Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883 | en | | | Garnett, Constance, 1861-1946 [Translator] | Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Russia -- Social life and customs -- 1533-1917 -- Fiction; Russia -- Social conditions -- 1801-1917 -- Fiction; Domestic fiction; Historical fiction | 2009-12-21 |
Domestic Manners of the Americans | Trollope, Fanny, 1779-1863 | en | | | | United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865; Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780-1863 -- Travel -- United States; United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865; United States -- Description and travel | 2003-11-01 |
Working in the Shade
Lowly Sowing brings Glorious Reaping | Wilson, Theodore P. | en | | | | England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction; Kindness -- Juvenile fiction; Social classes -- Juvenile fiction; Domestic fiction; Christian life -- Juvenile fiction; Orphans -- Juvenile fiction; Selfishness -- Juvenile fiction | 2007-04-18 |
Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green | Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927 | en | | Reginald Blake, financier and cad -- An item of fashionable intelligence -- Blasé Billy -- The choice of Cyril Harjohn -- The materialisation of Charles and Mivanway -- Portrait of a lady -- The man who would manage -- The man who lived for others -- A man of habit -- The absent-minded man -- A charming woman -- Whibley's spirit -- The man who went wrong -- The hobby rider -- The man who did not believe in luck -- Dick Dunkerman's cat -- The minor poet's story -- The degeneration of Thomas Henry -- The city of the sea -- Driftwood. | | Short stories, English; Manners and customs -- Fiction | 2000-06-01 |
Anting-Anting Stories
And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos | Kayme, Sargent | en | | The anting-anting of Captain Von Tollig -- The cave in the side of Coron -- The conjure man of Siargao -- Mrs. Hannah Smith, nurse -- The fifteenth wife -- "Our lady of Pilar" -- A question of time -- The spirit of Mount Apo -- With what measure ye mete -- Told at the club -- Pearls of Sulu. | | Philippines -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; United States -- History -- Philippine-American War -- Fiction; Americans -- Philippines -- Fiction | 2008-02-26 |
Drift from Two Shores | Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 | en | | The man on the beach -- Two saints of the foothills -- Jinny -- Roger Catron's friend -- Who was my quiet friend? -- A ghost of the Sierras -- The hoodlum band -- The man whose yoke was not easy -- My friend, the tramp -- The man from Solano -- The office seeker -- A sleeping-car experience -- Five o'clock in the morning -- With the entrées. | | American fiction -- 19th century; United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Short stories, American | 2000-05-01 |