title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Grimm's Fairy Stories | | en | | | | Fairy tales; Fairy tales -- Germany | 2004-02-01 |
Adrift in a Boat | Kingston, William Henry Giles, 1814-1880 | en | | | | Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Juvenile fiction; Friendship -- Juvenile fiction; Survival skills -- Juvenile fiction; Pirates -- Juvenile fiction; Rescues -- Juvenile fiction; Voyages and travels -- Juvenile fiction; Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Sea stories | 2007-10-17 |
Viking Tales | Hall, Jennie, 1875-1921 | en | | The baby -- The tooth thrall -- Olaf's farm -- Olaf's fight with Havard -- Foes'-fear -- Harald is king -- Harald's battle -- Gyda's saucy message -- The sea fight -- King Harald's wedding -- King Harald goes west-over-seas -- Homes in Iceland -- Eric the Red -- Leif and his new land -- Wineland the good. | Lambdin, Victor Ralph, 1876-1963 [Illustrator] | Short stories; Sagas -- Adaptations; Vikings -- Folklore | 2008-03-12 |
The Kangaroo Marines | Campbell, R. W. | en | | | | Great Britain. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps -- Fiction; World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia -- Fiction; World War, 1914-1918 -- New Zealand -- Fiction; New Zealanders -- Foreign countries -- Fiction; Australians -- Foreign countries -- Fiction; War stories | 2008-05-12 |
Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919 | en | | | Carsey, Alice [Illustrator] | Burrows, Mary Louise (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction; Mystery and detective stories; World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Juvenile fiction; Liberty bonds -- Juvenile fiction; Traitors -- Juvenile fiction; Middle West -- Juvenile fiction | 2007-06-20 |
Oldtown Fireside Stories | Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 | en | | The Ghost In The Mill
The Sullivan Looking-Glass
The Minister's Housekeeper
The Widow's Bandbox
Captain Kidd's Money
"Mis' Elderkin's Pitcher"
The Ghost In The Cap'n Brownhouse | | Women -- New England -- Fiction; United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2007-08-14 |
The Return of Sherlock Holmes | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 | en | Magazine Edition | The Adventure of the empty house
The adventure of the Norwood builder
The adventure of the dancing men
The adventure of the solitary cyclist
The adventure of the priory school
The adventure of Black Peter
The adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
The adventure of the six Napoleons
The adventure of the three students
The adventure of the golden pince-nez
The adventure of the missing three-quarter
The adventure of the Abbey Grange
The adventure of the second stain | | Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Detective and mystery stories, English; Private investigators -- England -- Fiction | 1995-02-01 |
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The Prince Of The Captivity | Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 | en | | | | Crusades -- Second, 1147-1149 -- Fiction; Historical fiction; Islam -- Relations -- Judaism -- Fiction; Jerusalem -- History -- Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244 -- Fiction; Jewish fiction; Jews -- History -- 70-1789 -- Fiction; Judaism -- Relations -- Islam -- Fiction; Kurdistan -- Fiction; Messianism -- Fiction; Princes -- Fiction; War stories | 2006-12-03 |
Ensign Knightley and Other Stories | Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley), 1865-1948 | en | | Ensign Knightley -- The man of wheels -- Mr. Mitchelbourne's last escapade -- The coward -- The deserter -- The crossed gloves -- The shuttered house -- Keeper of the bishop -- The cruise of the "Willing Mind."--How Barrington returned to Johannesburg -- Hatteras -- The Princess Joceliande -- A liberal education -- The twenty-kroner story -- The fifth picture. | | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; South Africa -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2004-07-09 |
Many Cargoes | Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark), 1863-1943 | en | | A change of treatment -- A love passage -- The captain's exploit -- Contraband of war -- A black affair -- The skipper of the "Osprey" -- In borrowed plumes -- The boatswain's watch -- Low water -- In mid-Atlantic -- After the inquest -- In Limehouse Reach -- An elaborate elopement -- The cook of the "Gannet" -- A benefit performance -- A case of desertion -- Outsailed -- Mated -- The rival beauties -- Mrs. Bunker's chaperon -- A harbour of refuge. | | England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Humorous stories, English; River life -- Fiction | 2004-05-01 |
The Boy Scouts Book of Stories | | en | | The great big man / O. Johnson -- A twilight adventure / M.D. Post -- Tad Sheldon, second class scout / J.F. Wilson -- The red-headed league / A.C. Doyle -- The ransom of Red Chief / O. Henry -- The honk-honk breed / S.E. White -- The devil-fish / N. Duncan -- The jumping frog / Mark Twain --Bingism / B. Tarkingtorn -- Concho Curly at the op'ra / E.B. Bronson -- The lie / H. Hagedorn -- Story of the bandbox / R.L. Stevenson -- The hero and the cowboy / J.C. Lincoln -- The dollar / M. Robertson -- The mascot of "Troop 1" / S. Chalmers -- The lion's smile / T.W. Hanshew -- The roll-call of the reef / A.T. Quiller-Couch -- The house and the brain / E. Bulwer-Lytton. | | | 2009-05-08 |
Personal Reminiscences in Book Making
and Some Short Stories | Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894 | en | | Introductory -- Life in the Bell Rock lighthouse -- Nights with the fire bridgade -- A war of mercy -- Descent into the Cornish mines -- The land of the vikings -- The burglars and the parson -- Jim Greeley, the North Sea skipper -- A northern waif -- How to make the best of life: from a young man's standpoint -- Forgive and forget: a lifeboat story -- "Rescue the perishing" -- A knotty question -- Two remarkable dreams. | | Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894 -- Anecdotes; Authorship; Short stories | 2007-06-07 |
Southern Stories
Retold from St. Nicholas | Various | en | | His Hero, by Minor -- Jericho Bob, by King -- How We Bought Louisiana, by Coffin -- The City that Lives Outdoors, by Harwood -- Queer American Rivers, by Spearman -- The Watermelon Stockings, by Hegan -- The "'Gator", by Moore -- The Earthquake at Charleston, by Gibson -- Hiding Places in War Times, by Gore -- St. Augustine, by Stockton -- Catching Terrapin, by Kappes -- "Locoed", by Marshall -- A Divided Duty, by Cassidy -- The "Walking-Beam Boy", by Stofiel -- The Creature with No Claws, by Harris. | | Southern States -- Juvenile fiction; Southern States -- Juvenile literature | 2007-12-06 |
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates | Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 | en | | Buccaneers and marooners of the Spanish Main -- The ghost of Captain Brand -- With the buccaneers -- Tom Chist and the treasure box -- Jack Ballister's fortunes -- Blueskin, the pirate -- Captain Scarfield -- The ruby of Kishmoor. | Johnson, Merle De Vore, 1874-1935 [Compiler] | Buccaneers -- Fiction; Historical fiction, American; Sea stories, American; Pirates -- Fiction; Spanish Main -- Fiction | 2008-10-10 |
The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million | Henry, O., 1862-1910 | en | | Voice of the City -- The Complete Life of John Hopkins -- A Lickpenny Lover -- Dougherty's Eye-opener -- "Little Speck in Garnered Fruit" -- The Harbinger -- While the Auto Waits -- A Comedy in Rubber -- One Thousand Dollars -- The Defeat of the City -- The Shocks of Doom -- The Plutonian Fire -- Nemesis and the Candy Man -- Squaring the Circle -- Roses, Ruses, and Romance -- The City of Dreadful Night -- The Easter of the Soul -- The Fool-Killer -- Transients in Arcadia -- The Rathskeller and the Rose -- The Clarion Call -- Extradited from Bohemia -- A Philistine in Bohemia -- From Each According to His Ability -- The Memento | | | 1998-09-01 |
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | en | | The Purloined Letter -- The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade -- A Descent into the Maelström -- Von Kempelen and his Discovery -- Mesmeric Revelation -- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar -- The Black Cat -- The Fall of the House of Usher -- Silence: a Fable -- The Masque of the Red Death -- The Cask of Amontillado -- The Imp of the Perverse -- The Island of the Fay -- The Assignation -- The Pit and the Pendulum -- The Premature Burial -- The Domain of Arnheim -- Landor's Cottage -- William Wilson -- The Tell-Tale Heart -- Berenice -- Eleonora. | | Fantasy fiction; Horror tales, American; American fiction -- 19th century; Short stories | 2000-04-01 |
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | en | | The Devil in the Belfry
Lionizing
X-ing a Paragrab
Metzengerstein
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.
How to Write a Blackwood article
A Predicament
Mystification
Diddling
The Angel of the Odd
Mellonia Tauta
The Duc de l'Omlette
The Oblong Box
Loss of Breath
The Man That Was Used Up
The Business Man
The Landscape Garden
Maelzel's Chess-Player
The Power of Words
The Colloquy of Monas and Una
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
Shadow.--A Parable | | Short stories; Fantasy fiction; Horror tales, American; American fiction -- 19th century | 2000-04-01 |
Essays in Little | Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 | en | | Alexandre Dumas -- Mr. Stevenson's works -- Thomas Haynes Bayly -- Theodore de Banville -- Homer and the study of Greek -- The last fashionable novel -- Thackeray -- Dickens -- Adventures of Buccaneers -- The sagas -- Charles Kingsley -- Charles Lever: his books, adventures and misfortunes -- The poems of Sir Walter Scott -- John Bunyan -- Letter to a young journalist -- Mr.Kipling's stories | Adams, William Davenport, 1828-1891 [Compiler] | Literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | 1999-01-01 |
Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader | Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894 | en | | | Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894 [Illustrator] | Sailors -- Juvenile fiction; Adventure stories; Natural history -- Juvenile fiction; Pirates -- Juvenile fiction; Seafaring life -- Juvenile fiction; Voyages and travels -- Juvenile fiction; Islands -- Juvenile fiction; Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Pacific Ocean -- Juvenile fiction | 2007-11-06 |
Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby | Norris, Kathleen Thompson, 1880-1966 | en | | Poor, dear Margaret Kirby -- Bridging the years -- The tide-marsh -- What happened to Alanna -- The friendship of Alanna -- "S is for shiftless Susanna" -- The last Carolan -- Making allowances for mamma -- The measure of Margaret Coppered -- Miss Mix, kidnapper -- Shandon Waters -- Gayley the troubadour -- Dr. Bates and Miss Sally -- The gay deceiver -- The rainbow's end -- Rosemary's stepmother -- Austin's girl -- Rising water. | | American fiction -- 20th century; Short stories | 2003-08-01 |
Starlight Ranch
and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier | King, Charles, 1844-1933 | en | | Starlight ranch -- Well won; or, From the plains to "The Point" -- From "The Point" to the plains -- The worst man in the troop -- Van. | | Western stories; Soldiers -- Fiction; United States. Army -- Military life -- Fiction; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction; West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2008-07-27 |
Essays and Tales | Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719 | en | | Public credit -- Household Superstitions -- Opera Lions -- Women and Wives -- The Italian Opera -- Lampoons -- True and False Humour -- Sa Ga Yan Qua Rash Tow's Impressions of London -- The Vision of Marraton -- Six Papers on Wit -- Friendship -- Chevy-Chase (Two Papers) -- A Dream of the Painters -- Spare Time (Two Papers) -- Censure -- The English Language -- The Vision of Mirza -- Genius -- Theodosius and Constantia -- Good Nature -- A Grinning Match -- Trust in God. | Morley, Henry, 1822-1894 [Editor] | Fiction; Essays; Short stories | 2001-09-01 |
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 |
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 | Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942 | en | | A patent medicine testimonial -- A sandshore wooing -- After many days -- An unconventional confidence -- Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas basket -- Davenport's story -- Emily's husband -- Min -- Miss Cordelia's accommodation -- Ned's stroke of business -- Our runaway kite -- The bride roses -- The Josephs' Christmas -- The magical bond of the sea -- The martyrdom of Estella -- The old chest at Wyther Grange -- The Osbornes' Christmas -- The romance of Aunt Beatrice -- The running away of Chester -- The strike at Putney -- The unhappiness of Miss Farquhar -- Why Mr. Cropper changed his mind. | | | 2008-03-19 |
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 |