title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
A Visit From Saint Nicholas | Moore, Clement Clarke, 1779-1863 | en | | | Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888 [Illustrator] | Children's poetry, American; Christmas -- Juvenile poetry; Narrative poetry; Santa Claus -- Juvenile poetry | 2005-12-23 |
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | en | | Narrative of A. Gordon Pym -- Ligeia -- Morella -- A Tale of the Ragged Mountains -- The Spectacles -- King Pest -- Three Sundays in a Week | | Fantasy fiction; Horror tales, American; American fiction -- 19th century | 2000-04-01 |
The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 | Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 | en | | | | Bumppo, Natty (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Historical fiction; Adventure stories; Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction; United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 -- Fiction; Mohegan Indians -- Fiction; War stories | 2006-02-05 |
Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero | Sienkiewicz, Henryk, 1846-1916 | en | | | Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906 [Translator] | Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Fiction; Rome -- History -- Nero, 54-68 -- Fiction; Historical fiction; Christian fiction | 2001-10-01 |
Twas the Night before Christmas
A Visit from St. Nicholas | Moore, Clement Clarke, 1779-1863 | en | | | Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935 [Illustrator] | Santa Claus -- Juvenile poetry; Christmas -- Juvenile poetry; Narrative poetry; Children's poetry, American | 2005-11-22 |
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African
Written By Himself | Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797 | en | | | | Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797; Slaves -- United States -- Biography; Slaves -- Great Britain -- Biography | 2005-03-17 |
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself | Bibb, Henry, 1815-1854 | en | | | | Slavery -- Kentucky -- History -- 19th century; Bibb, Henry, b. 1815; Slaves -- United States -- Biography; Slaves -- Kentucky -- Social conditions -- 19th century | 2005-03-17 |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 | en | | | | Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895; Slavery; African American abolitionists -- Biography; Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography | 2006-01-12 |
A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay | Tench, Watkin, 1759-1833 | en | | | | Tench, Watkin, 1759?-1833 -- Diaries; Explorers -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Diaries; Voyages and travels; Botany Bay region (Australia) -- Description and travel; New South Wales -- Description and travel | 2006-05-08 |
The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner | Wilkinson, J. (John), 1821-1891 | en | | | | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Blockades; New Orleans (La.) -- History -- Capture, 1862; Wilkinson, J. (John), 1821-1891; Confederate States of America. Navy -- Biography; Admirals -- Southern States -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations | 2007-06-30 |
The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes | | en | | Feodor Jagor's Travels in the Philippines (the out-of-print 1875 English translation corrected from the original German text) -- The state of the Philippines in 1810, by Tomas de Comyn (William Walton's 1821 translation modernized) -- Manila and Sulu in 1842, by Com. Chas. Wilkes (Narrative of U.S. exploring expedition 1838-42, v. 5) -- Manila in 1819, by Lieut. John White (from the "History of a voyage to the China Sea") -- The peopling of the Philippines, by Doctor Rudolf Virchow (O. T. Mason's translation; Smithsonian institution 1899 report) -- People and prospects of the Philippines, by an English merchant, 1778, and a consul, 1878 (from Blackwood's and the Cornhill magazine) -- Filipino merchants of the early 1890s, by F. Karuth. | Craig, Austin, 1872- [Editor] | | 2004-01-01 |
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 |