| title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
| Duffels | Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902 | en | | Sister Tabea -- The redemptioner -- A basement story -- The gunpowder plot -- The story of a valentine -- Huldah, the help -- The new cashier -- Priscilla -- Talking for life -- Periwinkle -- The Christmas club. | | | 2008-05-31 |
| Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 | Various | en | | The transferred ghost, by Stockton
A martyr to science, by Jacobi
Mrs. Knollys, by Dale
A dinner-party, by Eddy
The mount of sorrow, by Spofford
Sister Silvia, by Tincker. | | Short stories, American; United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2010-01-24 |
| Mrs. Dud's Sister | Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam, 1876-1961 | en | | | | Love stories, American; Middle-aged persons -- Fiction | 2007-11-06 |
| Black Spirits and White
A Book of Ghost Stories | Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942 | en | | No. 252 rue M. le Prince -- In Kropfsberg keep -- The white villa -- Sister Maddelena -- Notre Dame des eaux -- The dead valley. | | | 2008-09-22 |
| The Tale of Brynild, and King Valdemar and his Sister
Two Ballads | Borrow, George Henry, 1803-1881 | en | | The tale of Brynild -- King Valdemar and his sister -- Mirror of Cintra -- The harp. | Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937 [Editor] | | 2009-05-16 |
| Sister Carrie: a Novel | Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 | en | | | | Young women -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction; Mistresses -- Fiction; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction | 1995-03-01 |
| Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4)
Ghost Stories | | en | | The Listener
Number 13
Joseph: A Story
The Horla
The Beast with Five Fingers
Sister Maddelena
Thrawn Janet
The Yellow Cat
Letter to Sura. | French, Joseph Lewis, 1858-1936 [Editor] | Detective and mystery stories; Ghost stories; Short stories | 2009-01-06 |
| A Chosen Few
Short Stories | Stockton, Frank Richard, 1834-1902 | en | | A tale of negative gravity -- Asaph -- His wife's deceased sister -- The lady or the tiger? -- The remarkable wreck of the Thomas Hyke -- Old pipes and the dryad -- The transferred ghost -- The philosophy of relative existences -- A piece of red calico. | | | 2008-05-21 |
| The Copy-Cat and Other Stories | Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 | en | | The copy-cat -- The cock of the walk -- Johnny-in-the-woods -- Daniel and little Dan'l -- Big sister Solly -- Little Lucy Rose -- Noblesse -- Coronation -- The amethyst comb -- The umbrella man -- The balking of Christopher -- Dear Annie | | Short stories; New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 1999-04-01 |
| The Magic Egg and Other Stories | Stockton, Frank Richard, 1834-1902 | en | | The magic egg -- His wife's deceased sister -- The widow's cruise -- Captain Eli's best ear -- Love before breakfast -- The staying power of Sir Rohan -- A piece of red calico -- The Christmas wreck -- My well and what came out of it -- Mr. Tolman -- My unwilling neighbor -- Our archery club. | | Short stories; United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction | 1996-02-01 |
| The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories | Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935 | en | | The goodness of Saint Rocque -- Tony's wife -- The fisherman of Pass Christian -- M'sieu Fortier's violin -- By the Bayou St. John -- When the bayou overflows -- Mr. Baptiste -- A carnival jangle -- Little Miss Sophie -- Sister Josepha -- The praline woman -- Odalie -- La Juanita -- Titee. | | Short stories; City and town life -- Fiction; New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction | 1996-10-01 |
| The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2 | Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893 | en | | Monsieur Parent -- The Father -- A Vagabond -- Useless Beauty -- Fly -- The Mad Woman -- That Pig of a Morin -- The Wooden Shoes -- A Normandy Joke -- A Cock Crowed -- Julot's Opinion -- Mademoiselle -- The Mountebanks -- The Sequel to a Divorce -- The Man with the Dogs -- The Clown -- Babette -- Sympathy -- The Debt -- An Artist -- Mademoiselle Fifi -- The Story of a Farm Girl -- Mamma Stirling -- Lilie Lala -- Madame Tellier's Establishment -- The Bandmaster's Sister -- False Alarm -- Wife and Mistress -- Mad -- An Unfortunate Likeness -- The New Sensation. | | French fiction -- Translations into English; Short stories, French -- Translations into English | 2005-12-22 |
| The Spinner's Book of Fiction | Various | en | | Concha Argüello, Sister Dominica, by Gertrude Atherton -- The Ford of Crèvecœur, by Mary Austin -- A Californian, by Geraldine Bonner -- Gideon's Knock, by Mary Halleck Foote -- A Yellow Man and a White, by Eleanor Gates -- The Judgment of Man, by James Hopper -- The League of the Old Men, by Jack London -- Down the Flume with the Sneath Piano, by Bailey Millard -- The Contumacy of Sarah L. Walker, by Miriam Michelson -- Breaking Through, by W. C. Morrow -- A Lost Story, by Frank Norris -- Hantu, by Henry Milner Rideout -- Miss. Juno, by Charles Warren Stoddard -- A Little Savage Gentleman, by Isobel Strong -- Love and Advertising, by Richard Walton Tully -- The Tewana, by Herman Whitaker. | | | 2007-01-11 |
| The Children's Book of Christmas Stories | | en | | Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse -- The Fir Tree -- The Christmas Masquerade -- The Shepherds and the Angels -- The Telltale Tile -- Little Girl's Christmas -- A Christmas Matinee -- Toinette and the Elves -- The Voyage of the Wee Red Cap -- A Story of the Christ-Child -- Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas -- Why the Chimes Rang -- The Birds' Christmas -- The Little Sister's Vacation -- Little Wolff's Wooden Shoes -- Christmas in the Alley -- A Christmas Star -- The Queerest Christmas -- Old Father Christmas -- A Christmas Carol -- How Christmas Came to the Santa Maria Flats -- The Legend of Babouscka -- Christmas in the Barn -- The Philanthropist's Christmas -- The First Christmas-Tree -- The First New England Christmas -- The Cratchits' Christmas Dinner -- Christmas in Seventeen Seventy-Six -- Christmas Under the Snow -- Mr. Bluff's Experiences of Holidays -- Master Sandy's Snapdragon -- A Christmas Fairy -- The Greatest of These -- Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe -- Christmas on Big Rattle. | | | 2004-02-01 |
| The Children's Book of Christmas Stories | | en | | Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse. -- The Fir-Tree. -- The Christmas Masquerade. -- The Shepherds and the Angels. -- The Telltale Tile. -- Little Girl's Christmas. -- A Christmas Matinée. -- Toinette and the Elves. -- The Voyage of the Wee Red Cap. -- A Story of the Christ-Child (a German Legend for Christmas Eve). -- Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas. -- Why the Chimes Rang. -- The Birds' Christmas (founded on fact). -- The Little Sister's Vacation. -- Little Wolff's Wooden Shoes. -- Christmas in the Alley. -- A Christmas Star. -- The Queerest Christmas. -- Old Father Christmas. -- A Christmas Carol. -- How Christmas Came to the Santa Maria Flats. -- The Legend of Babouscka. -- Christmas in the Barn. -- The Philanthropist's Christmas. -- The First Christmas-Tree. -- The First New England Christmas. -- The Cratchits' Christmas Dinner. -- Christmas in Seventeen Seventy-Six. -- Christmas Under the Snow. -- Mr. Bluff's Experience of Holidays. -- Master Sandy's Snapdragon. -- A Christmas Fairy. -- The Greatest of These. -- Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe. -- Christmas on Big Rattle. | | | 2009-03-11 |
| The Brown Fairy Book | Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 | en | | What the Rose did to the Cypress -- Ball-Carrier and the Bad One -- How Ball-Carrier finished his Task -- The Bunyip -- Father Grumbler -- The Story of the Yara -- The Cunning Hare -- The Turtle and his Bride -- How Geirald the Coward was Punished -- Habogi -- How the Little Brother set Free his Big Brothers -- The Sacred Milk of Koumongoe -- The Wicked Wolverine -- The Husband of the Rat's Daughter -- The Mermaid and the Boy -- Pivi and Kabo -- The Elf Maiden -- How Some Wild Animals became Tame Ones -- Fortune and the Wood-Cutter -- The Enchanted Head -- The Sister of the Sun -- The Prince and the Three Fates -- The Fox and the Lapp -- Kisa the Cat -- The Lion and the Cat -- Which was the Foolishest? -- Asmund and Signy -- Rubezahl -- Story of the King who would be Stronger then Fate -- Story of Wali Dad the Simple-hearted -- Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monkey -- The Knights of the Fish. | | | 2002-06-01 |
| The Red Fairy Book | Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 | en | | The Twelve Dancing Princesses -- The Princess Mayblossom -- Soria Moria Castle -- The Death of Koschei the Deathless -- The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen -- The Master Thief -- Brother and Sister -- Princess Rosette -- The Enchanted Pig -- The Norka -- The Wonderful Birch -- Jack and the Beanstalk -- The Little Good Mouse -- Graciosa and Percinet -- The Three Princesses of Whiteland -- The Voice of Death -- The Six Sillies -- Kari Woodengown -- Drakestail -- The Ratcatcher -- The True History of Little Goldenhood -- The Golden Branch -- The Three Dwarfs -- Dapplegrim -- The Enchanted Canary -- The Twelve Brothers -- Rapunzel -- The Nettle Spinner -- Farmer Weatherbeard -- Mother Holle -- Minnikin -- Bushy Bride -- Snowdrop -- The Golden Goose -- The Seven Foals -- The Marvellous Musician -- The Story of Sigurd. | | Fairy tales; Folklore | 1996-05-01 |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 | Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942 | en | | A correspondence and a climax -- An adventure on Island Rock -- At five o'clock in the morning -- Aunt Susanna's birthday celebration -- Bertie's New Year -- Between the hill and the valley -- Clorinda's gifts -- Cyrilla's inspiration -- Dorinda's desperate deed -- Her own people -- Ida's New Year cake -- In the old valley -- Jane Lavinia -- Mackereling out in the gulf -- Millicent's double -- The blue north room -- The Christmas surprise at Enderly Road -- The dissipation of Miss Ponsonby -- The Falsoms' Christmas dinner -- The Fraser Scholarship -- The girl at the gate -- The light on the Big Dipper -- The prodigal brother -- The redemption of John Churchill -- The schoolmaster's letter -- The story of Uncle Dick -- The understanding of Sister Sara -- The unforgotten one -- The wooing of Bessy -- Their girl Josie -- When Jack and Jill took a hand. | | | 2008-03-19 |
| 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 |
| Yorkshire Ditties, First Series
To Which Is Added The Cream Of Wit And Humour From His Popular Writings | Hartley, John, 1839-1915 | en | | Bite 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 Dream | | | 2006-01-06 |
| Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science
Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 | Various | en | | ILLUSTRATIONS
SEARCHING FOR THE QUININE-PLANT IN PERU.
Concluding Paper.
A GLANCE AT THE SITE AND ANTIQUITIES OF ATHENS By J.L.T. PHILLIPS.
COMMONPLACE By CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON.
PROBATIONER LEONHARD; OR, THREE NIGHTS IN THE HAPPY VALLEY By CAROLINE CHESEBRO.
Chapter IV.—The Test—With Mental Reservations.
Chapter V.—Sister Benigna.
Chapter VI.—The Men Of Spenersberg.
Chapter VII.—The Book.
CHAPTER VIII.—Conference Meeting.
CHAPTER IX.—Will The Architect Have Employment?
COUNTRY-HOUSE LIFE IN ENGLAND By REGINALD WYNFORD.
THE FOREST OF ARDEN By ITA ANIOL PROKOP.
JACK, THE REGULAR By THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH.
OBSERVATIONS AND ADVENTURES IN SUBMARINE DIVING By WILL WALLACE HARNEY.
CONFIDENTIAL.
GLIMPSES OF JOHN CHINAMAN By PRENTICE MULFORD.
A WINTER REVERIE By MILLIE W. CARPENTER.
"PASSPORTS, GENTLEMEN!" By A.H.
OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP.
The Cornwallis Family.
Novelties In Ethnology.
The Steam-whistle.
Siamese News.
Madison As A Temperance Man.
LITERATURE OF THE DAY.
Books Received. | | | 2004-10-05 |
| Russian Fairy Tales
A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore | | en | | The Fiend -- The Dead Mother -- The Dead Witch -- The Treasure -- The Cross-Surety -- The Awful Drunkard -- The Bad Wife -- The Golovikha -- The Three Copecks -- The Miser -- The Fool and the Birch-Tree -- The Mizgir -- The Smith and the Demon -- Ivan Popyalof -- The Norka -- Marya Morevna -- Koshchei the Deathless -- The Water Snake -- The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise -- The Baba Yaga -- Vasilissa the Fair -- The Witch -- The Witch and the Sun's Sister -- One-Eyed Likho -- Woe -- Friday -- Wednesday -- The Léshy -- Vazuza and Volga -- Sozh and Dnieper -- The Metamorphosis of the Dnieper, the Volga, and the Dvina -- Frost -- The Blind Man and the Cripple -- Princess Helena the Fair -- Emilian the Fool -- The Witch Girl -- The Headless Princess -- The Soldier's Midnight Watch -- The Warlock -- The Fox-Physician -- The Fiddler in Hell -- The Ride on the Gravestone -- The Two Friends -- The Shroud -- The Coffin-Lid -- The Two Corpses -- The Dog and the Corpse -- The Soldier and the Vampire -- Elijah the Prophet and Nicholas -- The Priest with the Greedy Eyes -- The Hasty Word. | Ralston, William Ralston Shedden, 1828-1889 [Translator] | | 2007-08-22 |
| Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete | La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695 | en | | La Fontaine's life -- Preface -- Joconde -- The Cudgelled and Contented Cuckold -- The Husband Confessor -- The Cobbler -- The Peasant and His Angry Lord -- The Muleteer -- The Servant Girl Justified -- The Three Gossips' Wager -- The Old Man's Calendar -- The Avaricious Wife and Tricking Gallant -- The Jealous Husband -- The Gascon Punished -- The Princess Betrothed to the King of Garba -- The Magick Cup -- The Falcon -- The Little Dog -- The Eel Pie -- The Magnificent -- The Ephesian Matron -- Belphegor -- The Little Bell -- The Glutton -- The Two Friends -- The Country Justice Alice Sick -- The Kiss Returned -- Sister Jane -- An Imitation of Anacreon -- Another Imitation of Anacreon -- Preface To The Second Book -- Friar Philip's Geese -- Richard Minutolo -- The Monks of Catalonia -- The Cradle -- St. Julian's Prayer -- The Countryman Who Sought His Calf -- Hans Carvel's Ring -- The Hermit -- The Convent -- Gardener of Lamporechio -- The Mandrake -- The Rhemese -- The Amorous Courtesan -- Nicaise -- The Progress of Wit -- The Sick Abbess -- The Truckers -- The Case of Conscience -- The Devil of Pope-fig Island -- Feronde -- The Psalter -- King Candaules and the Doctor of Laws -- The Devil in Hell -- Neighbour Peter's Mare -- The Spectacles -- The Bucking Tub -- The Impossible Thing -- The Picture -- The Pack-Saddle -- The Ear-maker, and the Mould-mender -- The River Scamander -- The Confidant Without Knowing It, or the Stratagem -- The Clyster -- The Indiscreet Confession -- The Contract -- The Quid Pro Quo, or the Mistakes -- The Dress-maker -- The Gascon -- The Pitcher -- To Promise is One Thing, to Keep It, Another -- The Nightingale -- Epitaph of La Fontaine. | | | 2004-09-21 |
| Fifty-Two Stories For Girls | | en | | Gloria Dene's schoolfellows, by Ryeman -- My year at school, by Watson -- The silver star, by Holderness -- Uncle Tone, by Godkin -- A night on the road, by Watson -- The missing letter, by Chappell -- "The colonel", by Dicken -- Nettie, by Sayers -- The magic cabinet, by Hooper -- Only Tim, by Doudney -- Smith's sister, by Overton -- The colonel's boy, by Hervey -- 'Twixt life and death, by Joughin -- Rose's birthday present, by Delbrassine -- Dolly Hardcastle's rosebuds, by Pearce -- A tale of Simla, by Bourchier -- The Trevern treasure, by Hardy -- A memorable day, by Doudney -- Dora, by Miles -- Little peace, by Ryeman -- The story of Wassili and Daria, by Guillemard -- Marjorie May, by Everett-Green -- Fourth cousins, by Stables -- The pedlar's pack, by Jackson -- The unbidden guest, by Forester -- The wreck of the May Queen, by Jackson -- Adrift on the Pacific, by Jackson -- A strange visitor, by Heighington -- The third person singular, by Hardy -- "How Jack minded the baby", by Pinho -- My grandmother's adventure, by Miles -- A terrible Christmas Eve, by Jackson -- A night of horror, by Miles -- Aunt Grieves' silver, by Jackson -- Billjim, by Le Sotgille -- The legends of Langaffer, by Caumont -- How Cicely danced before the king, by Archer -- A mother of Queens From "Old Romance" -- The story of Grizel Cochrand -- A wife's stratagem, by Hardy -- The king's tragedy, by Miles -- The stranger, by Bell -- Love will find a way, by Nithsdale. | Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry), 1848-1929 [Editor] | Children's stories; Girls -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction | 2008-07-02 |