title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
The Grey Fairy Book | | en | | Donkey Skin -- The Goblin Pony -- An Impossible Enchantment -- The Story of Dschemil and Dachemila -- Janni and the Draken -- The Partnership of the Thief and the Liar -- Fortunatus and his Purse -- The Goat-faced Girl -- What came of picking Flowers -- The Story of Bensurdatu -- The Magician's Horse -- The Little Gray Man -- Herr Lazarus and the Draken -- The Story of the Queen of the Flowery Isles -- Udea and her Seven Brothers -- The White Wolf -- Mohammed with the Magic Finger -- Bobino -- The Dog and the Sparrow -- The Story of the Three Sons of Hali -- The Story of the Fair Circassians -- The Jackal and the Spring The Bear -- The Sunchild The Daughter of Buk Ettemsuch -- Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye, or the Limping Fox -- The Unlooked for Prince -- The Simpleton -- The Street Musicians -- The Twin Brothers -- Cannetella -- The Ogre -- A Fairy's Blunder -- Long, Broad, and Quickeye -- Prunella. | Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 [Editor] | Fairy tales; Folklore | 2004-10-01 |
Great Pirate Stories | | en | | The Piccaroon. By Scott. -- The Capture of Panama, 1671. By Esquemeling. -- The Malay Proas. By Cooper. -- The Wonderful Fight of the Exchange of Bristol with the Pirates of Algiers. By Purchas. -- The Daughter of the Great Mogul. By Defoe. -- Barbarossa—King of the Corsairs. By Currey. -- Morgan at Puerto Bello. By Esquemeling. -- The Ways of the Buccaneers. By Masefield after Esquemeling. -- A True Account of Three Notorious Pirates. By Pyle, Ed. -- Narrative of the Capture of the Ship Derby, 1735 By Captain Anselm. -- Francis Lolonois, the Slave Who Became a Pirate King. By Esquemeling. -- The Fight between the Dorrill and the Moca -- Jaddi the Malay Pirate -- The Terrible Ladrones. By Glasspoole. -- The Female Captive. By Parker. -- The Passing of Mogul Mackenzie, the Last of the North Atlantic Pirates. By Chute. -- The Last of the Sea-Rovers: The Riff Coast Pirates. By Lord. | French, Joseph Lewis, 1858-1936 [Editor] | | 2008-10-29 |
The Fairy Book
The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew | Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock, 1826-1887 | en | | The sleeping beauty in the wood -- Hop-O'-My-Thumb -- Cinderella; or, the little glass slipper -- Adventures of John Dietrich -- Beauty and the Beast -- Little One Eye, Little Two Eyes, and Little Three Eyes -- Jack the giant-killer -- Tom Thumb -- Rumpelstilzchen -- Fortunatus -- The Bremen Town Musicians -- Riquet with the tuft -- House Island -- Snow-White and Rose-Red -- Jack and the bean-stalk -- Graciosa and Percinet -- The iron stove -- The invisible prince -- The woodcutter's daughter -- Brother and sister -- Little Red-Riding-Hood -- Puss in Boots -- The wolf and the seven young goslings -- The fair one with golden looks -- The butterfly -- The frog-prince -- The white cat -- Prince Cherry -- Little Snowdrop -- The blue bird -- The yellow dwarf -- The six swans -- The prince with the nose -- The hind of the forest -- The juniper tree -- Clever Alice. | | | 2006-11-07 |
Told in the Coffee House
Turkish Tales | | en | | How 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 -- Turkey | 2009-12-02 |
Holiday Stories for Young People | Various | en | | The Clover Leaf Club of Bloomingdale. By Sangster -- The Lighthouse Lamp. By Sangster. -- The Family Mail-bag. By Porter -- A Day's Fishing. By Porter -- Why Charlie Didn't Go. By Porter -- Uncle Giles' Paint Brush. By Porter -- The Pied Piper of Hamelin. By Browning -- A Girl Graduate. By Barnard -- A Christmas Frolic. By Sangster -- Archie's Vacation. By Porter -- A Birthday Story. By Sangster -- A Coquette. By Pierce -- Horatius. By Macaulay -- A Bit of Brightness. By Porter -- How Sammy Earned the Prize. By Sangster -- The Glorious Fourth. -- The Middle Daughter. By Sangster -- The Golden Bird. By Grimm -- Harry Pemberton's Text. By Armstrong -- Our Cats. -- Outovplace. -- The Boy Who Dared to Be a Daniel. By Smith -- Little Redcap. By Grimm -- New Zealand Children. -- The Breeze from the Peak. -- The Bremen Town Musicians. By Grimm -- A Very Queer Steed, and Some Strange Adventures. by Armstrong -- Freedom's Silent Host. By Sangster -- Presence of Mind. By Sangster -- The Boy Who Went from the Sheepfold to the Throne. By Sangster. | Sangster, Margaret Elizabeth, 1838-1912 [Editor] | | 2005-09-04 |
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) | Various | en | | A Boston Ballad, by Whitman -- A Branch Library, by Flagg -- The Chief Mate, by Lowell -- Columbia and the Cowboy, by MacGowan -- A Daniel Come to Judgment, by Cooke -- Darius Green and His Flying Machine, by Trowbridge -- "The Day is Done", by Cary -- Dictum Sapienti by Paul -- The Duluth Speech, by Knott -- The Enchanted Hat, by MacGrath -- Eve's Daughter, by Sill -- Fate, by Munkittrick -- The Final Choice, by Cooke -- The Forbearance of the Admiral, by Irwin -- The Gentle Art of Boosting, by Bangs -- The Girl and the Julep, by Hough -- Grandfather Squeers, by Riley -- Guest at the Ludlow, by Nye -- Hard, by Masson -- Hon. Ranson Peabody, by Ade -- Icarus, by Saxe -- Is it I? by Price -- Johnny's Lessons, by Rankin -- Kaiser's Farewell to Prince Henry, by Taylor -- The Life Elixir of Marthy, by Neff -- Litigation, by Arp -- Mr. Carteret and His Fellow Americans Abroad, by Gray -- Mr. Dooley on Golf, by Dunne -- Niagara be Dammed, by Irwin -- Not According to Schedule, by Cutting -- Nothing to Wear, by Butler -- One of the Palls, by Robinson -- Paper: A Poem, by Franklin -- The Road to a Woman's Heart, by Slick -- The Sceptics, by Carman -- A Staccato to O Le Lupe, by Carman -- Table Manners, by Flagg -- The V-A-S-E, by Roche -- Vive la Bagatelle, by Scollard -- When the Sirup's on the Flapjack, by Taylor. | Wilder, Marshall Pinckney, 1859-1915 [Editor] | American wit and humor; American literature -- Humor | 2008-01-26 |
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05
Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English | Various | en | | The Romantic Philosophers--Fichte, Schelling, and Schleiermacher. By Frank Thilly -- Schleiermacher: On the Social Element in Religion. -- Gottlieb Fichte: The Destiny of Man. -- Addresses to the German Nation. -- von Schelling: On the Relation of the Plastic Arts to Nature. -- Later German Romanticism. By George H. Danton -- von Arnim and Brentano: The Boy's Magic Horn. (selections) -- Grimm: The Frog King, or Iron Henry -- The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids -- Rapunzel -- Haensel and Grethel -- The Fisherman and His Wife -- Arndt: Song of the Fatherland. -- Union Song. -- Körner: Men and Knaves. -- Lützow's Wild Band. -- Prayer During Battle. -- von Schenkendorf: The Mother Tongue. -- Spring Greeting to the Fatherland. -- Freedom. -- Uhland: The Chapel. -- The Shepherd's Song on the Lord's Day. -- The Castle by the Sea. -- Song of the Mountain Boy. -- Departure. -- Farewell. -- The Hostess' Daughter. -- The Good Comrade. -- The White Hart. -- The Lost Church. -- Charlemagne's Voyage. -- Free Art. -- Taillefer. -- Suabian Legend. -- The Blind King. -- The Minstrel's Curse. -- The Luck of Edenhall. -- On the Death of a Child. -- von Eichendorff: The Broken Ring. -- Morning Prayer. -- From the Life of a Good-for-nothing. -- von Chamisso: The Castle of Boncourt. -- The Lion's Bride. -- Woman's Love and Life. -- The Women of Weinsberg. -- The Crucifix. -- The Old Singer. -- The Old Washerwoman. -- The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl. -- Hoffmann: The Golden Pot. -- Motte-Fouqué: Selections from Undine. -- Hauff: Cavalryman's Morning Song. -- The Sentinel. -- Rückert: Barbarossa. -- From My Childhood Days. -- The Spring of Love. -- He Came to Meet Me. -- The Invitation. -- Murmur Not. -- A Parable. -- Evening Song. -- Chidher. -- At Forty Years. -- Before the Doors. -- von Platen-Hallermund: The Pilgrim Before St. Just's. -- The Grave of Alaric. -- Remorse. -- Would I were Free as are My Dreams. -- Sonnet. | | | 2004-07-12 |