title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
The Best American Humorous Short Stories | | en | Edited and introduced by Alexander Jessup | The little Frenchman and his water lots -- The angel of the odd -- The schoolmaster's progress -- The Watkinson evening -- Titbottom's spectacles -- My double; and how he undid me -- A visit to the asylum for aged and decayed punsters -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County -- Elder Brown's backslide -- The hotel experience of Mr. Pink Fluker -- The nice people -- The Buller-Podington compact -- Colonel Starbottle for the plaintiff -- The duplicity of Hargraves -- Bargain day at Tutt House -- A call -- How the widow won the deacon -- Gideon. | | | 2004-02-01 |
The Best Nonsense Verses | | en | | | Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam, 1876-1961 [Editor] | | 2007-01-15 |
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece | | en | | | | | 2007-03-26 |
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome | | en | | | | | 2007-05-28 |
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I | | en | | | | | 2007-06-04 |
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II | | en | | Of Companions and Flatterers. by Steele
The Story-Teller and His Art. by Steele
Sir Roger and the Widow. by Steele
The Coverley Family Portraits. by Steele
On Certain Symptoms of Greatness. by Steele
How to Be Happy tho Married. by Steele
Of the Shortness of Human Life. by Bolingbroke
Rules for the Study of History. by Bolingbroke
An Ancient English Country Seat. by Pope
His Compliments to Lady Mary. by Pope
How to Make an Epic Poem. by Pope
On Happiness in the Matrimonial State. by Montagu
Inoculation for the Smallpox. by Montagu
Of Good Manners, Dress and the World. by Chesterfield
Of Attentions to Ladies. by Chesterfield
Tom the Hero Enters the Stage; Partridge Sees Garrick at the Play. by Fielding from "Tom Jones"
Mr. Adams in a Political Light. by Fielding from "Joseph Andrews"
On Publishing His "Dictionary." by Johnson from the "Dictionary"
Pope and Dryden Compared. by Johnson from the "Lives of the Poets"
Letter to Chesterfield on the Completion of the "Dictionary." by Johnson from Boswell's "Life"
On the Advantages of Living in a Garret. by Johnson
The Character of Queen Elizabeth; The Defeat of the Armada. by Hume from the "History of England"
The First Principles of Government. by Hume
The Starling in Captivity; To Moulines with Maria. by Sterne from "The Sentimental Journey"
The Death of LeFevre; Passages from the Romance of My Uncle Toby and the Widow. by Sterne from "Tristram Shandy"
Warwick Castle. by Gray
To His Friend Mason on the Death of Mason's Mother. by Gray
On His Own Writings. by Gray
His Friendship for Bonstetten. by Gray
Hogarth. by Walpole from the "Anecdotes of Painting in England"
The War in America. by Walpole
The Death of George II. by Walpole
The Chimney Swallow. by White from "The Natural History of Selborne"
Of Ambition Misdirected. by Smith from the "Theory of Moral Sentiments"
The Advantages of a Division of Labor. b | | | 2007-06-08 |
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I | | en | | | | | 2009-05-01 |
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV | | en | | | | | 2007-12-22 |
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I | | en | | | | Authors -- Biography; Literature -- Collections | 2008-02-09 |
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. | | en | | | | | 2008-06-10 |
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index | | en | | | | | 2009-06-17 |
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III | | en | | Excerpts from Boswell's "Life of Johnson"
A Poet Defined, from the Preface to "Lyrical Ballads" by Wordsworth
The Arrival of the Master of Ravenswood, from "The Bride of Lammermoor" by Scott
The Death of Meg Merriles, from "Guy Mannering" by Scott
A Vision of Rob Roy, from "Rob Roy" by Scott
Queen Elizabeth and Amy Robsart at Kenilworth, from "Kenilworth" by Scott
The Illness and Death of Lady Scott, from Scott's "Journal"
Does Fortune Favor Fools?, from "A Sailor's Fortune" by Coleridge
The Destiny of the United States, from the "Table Talk" by Coleridge
Nelson's Death at Trafalgar, from the "Life of Nelson" by Southey
The Death of Hofer, by Landor
Napoleon and Pericles, by Landor
Dream Children—A Reverie; Poor Relations; The Origin of Roast Pig; That We Should Rise with the Lark, from the "Essays of Elia" by Lamb
Hamlet, from the "Characters of Shakespeare's Plays" by Hazlitt
Dreams of an Opium-Eater, from the "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" by de Quincey
Joan of Arc, from the "Biographical and Historical Essays" by de Quincey
Charles Lamb, from the "Literary Reminiscences" by de Quincey
Of His Mother's Treatment of Him, letter by Lord Byron
To His Wife after the Separation, letter by Lord Byron
To Sir Walter Scott, letter by Lord Byron
Of Art and Nature as Poetical Subjects, from the "Reply to Bowles" by Lord Byron
In Defense of Poetry, by Shelley
The Baths of Caracalla, from letter by Shelley
The ruins of Pompeii, from letter by Shelley
The Mutilation of the Hermæ; If Alexander Had Lived, from the "History of Greece" by Grote
Charlotte Corday, from the "History of the French Revolution" by Carlyle
The Blessedness of Work, from "Past and Present" by Carlyle
Cromwell, from "Heroes and Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History" by Carlyle
In Praise of Those Who Toil, from "Sart | | | 2007-07-30 |
The Best Short Stories of 1915
And the Yearbook of the American Short Story | | en | | The water-hole / Maxwell Struthers Burt -- The wake / Donn Byrne -- Chautonville / Will Levington Comfort -- La dernière mobilisation / W.A. Dwiggins -- The citizen / James Francis Dwyer -- Whose dog? / Frances Gregg -- Life / Ben Hecht -- T.B. / Fannie Hurst -- Mr. Eberdeen's house / Arthur Johnson -- Vengeance is mine / Virgil Jordan -- The weaver who clad the summer / Harris Merton Lyon -- -- Heart of youth / Walter J. Muilenburg -- The end of the path / Newbold Noyes -- The whale and the grasshopper / Seumas Obrien -- In Berlin / Mary Boyle O’Reilly -- The waiting years / Katharine Metcalf Roof -- Zelig / Benjamin Rosenblatt -- The survivors / Elsie Singmaster -- The yellow cat / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- The bounty-jumper / Mary Synon. | O'Brien, Edward Joseph Harrington, 1890-1941 [Editor] | American fiction -- 20th century; Short stories, American | 2007-01-07 |
The Best Short Stories of 1917
and the Yearbook of the American Short Story | | en | | Excursion / Edwina Stanton Babcock -- Onnie / Thomas Beer -- Cup of tea / Maxwell Struthers Burt -- Lonely places / Francis Buzzell -- Boys will be boys / Irvin S. Cobb -- Laughter / Charles Caldwell Dobie -- Emperor of Elam / H.G. Dwight -- Gay old dog / Edna Ferber -- Knight's move / Katharine Fullerton Gerould -- Jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- Bunker mouse / Frederick Stuart Greene -- Rainbow Pete / Richard Matthews Hallet -- Get ready the wreaths / Fannie Hurst -- Strange looking man / Fanny Kemble Johnson --Caller in the night / Burton Kline -- Interval / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Certain rich man / Lawrence Perry -- Path of glory / Mary Brecht Pulver -- Ching, ching, chinaman / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- None so blind / Mary Synon. | O'Brien, Edward Joseph Harrington, 1890-1941 [Editor] | American fiction -- 20th century; Short stories, American | 2007-03-22 |
The Best Short Stories of 1919
and the Yearbook of the American Short Story | | en | | The kitchen gods / G.F. Alsop -- An awakening / Sherwood Anderson -- Willum's vanilla / Edwina Stanton Babcock -- A night among the horses / Djuna Barnes -- Long, long ago / Frederick Orin Bartlett -- Dishes / Agnes Mary Brownell -- The blood-red one / Maxwell Struthers Burt -- The wedding-jest / James Branch Cabell -- The wrists on the door / Horace Fish -- "Government goat" / Susan Glaspell -- The stone / Henry Goodman -- To the bitter end / Richard Matthews Hallet -- The Meeker ritual / Joseph Hergesheimer -- The centenarian / Will E. Ingersoll -- Messengers / Calvin Johnston -- Mrs. Drainger's veil / Howard Mumford Jones -- Under a wine-glass / Ellen N. La Motte -- A thing of beauty / Elias Lieberman -- The other room / Mary Heaton Vorse -- "The fat of the land" / Anzia Yezierska. | O'Brien, Edward Joseph Harrington, 1890-1941 [Editor] | Short stories, American; American fiction -- 20th century | 2007-11-11 |
The Best Short Stories of 1920
and the Yearbook of the American Short Story | | en | | The other woman / Sherwood Anderson -- Gargoyle / Edwina Stanton Babcock -- Ghitza / Konrad Bercovici -- The life of five points / Edna Clare Bryner -- The signal tower / Wadsroth Camp -- The parting genius / Helen Oale Crew -- Habakkuk / Katharine Fullerton Gerould -- The judgment of Vulcan / Lee Foster Hartman -- The stick-in-the-muds / Rupert Hughes -- His job / Grace Sartwell Mason -- The rending / James Oppenheim -- The dummy-chucker / Arthur Somers Roche -- Butterflies / Rose Sidney -- The rotter / Fleta Campbel Springer -- Out of exile / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- The three telegrams / Ethel Storm -- The Roman bath / John T. Wheelwright -- Amazement / Stephen French Whitman -- Sheener / Ben Ames Williams -- Turkey red / Frances Gilchrist Wood. | O'Brien, Edward Joseph Harrington, 1890-1941 [Editor] | Short stories, American; American fiction -- 20th century | 2007-07-17 |
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story | | en | | Brothers / Sherwood Anderson -- Fanutza / Konrad Bercovici -- Experiment / Maxwell Struthers Burt -- Darkness / Irvin S. Cobb -- An instrument of the gods / Lincoln Colcord -- The lizard god / Charles J. Finger -- Under the dome / Waldo Frank -- French Eva / Katherine Fullerton Gerould -- The past / Ellen Glasgow -- His smile / Susan Glaspell -- The harbor master / Richard Matthews Hallet -- Green gardens / Frances Noyes Hart -- She walks in beauty / Fannie Hurst -- The little master of the sky / Manuel Komroff -- The man with the good face / Frank Luther Mott -- Master of fallen years / Vincent O'Sullivan -- The shame dance / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Kindred / Harriet Maxon Thayer -- Shelby / Charles Hanson Towne -- The wallow of the sea / Mary Heaton Vorse. | | American fiction -- 20th century; Short stories, American | 2006-06-28 |
The Bible in its Making
The most Wonderful Book in the World | | en | | | Hope, Noel [Illustrator] | | 2010-01-09 |
The Bible Story | | en | | | | | 2010-06-07 |
The Blind Man's Eyes | | en | | | Dexter, Wilson C. [Illustrator] | | 2010-07-03 |
The Blue Bird for Children
The Wonderful Adventures of Tyltyl and Mytyl in Search of Happiness | | en | Based on the play L'oiseau bleu, by Maurice Maeterlinck. | | | Children's stories; Children -- Juvenile fiction | 2009-02-04 |
The Blue Book of Chess
Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognized Openings | | en | | | | | 2005-07-28 |
The Bon Gaultier Ballads | | en | | | | | 2007-01-28 |
The Book of American Negro Poetry | | en | | | Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 [Editor] | | 2004-04-01 |
The Book of Art for Young People | | en | | | | | 2005-12-26 |