title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707)
From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) | Cobb, Samuel, 1675-1713 | en | | A Discourse on criticism and the liberty of writing. In a Letter to Richard Carter Esq; late of the Middle-Temple, now living in Barbadoes. --
A Discourse Of Poetry. 1. Its Antiquity. 2. Its Progress. 3. Its Improvement. A poem. | Bredvold, Louis I. [Author of introduction, etc.] | | 2004-12-30 |
Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman | Sampson, Emma Speed, 1868-1947 | en | Emma Speed Sampson continued the Mary Louise series under Edith Van Dyne's name when the original author, L. Frank Baum, died. | | | | 2007-09-07 |
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys | Butler, Dugald, 1862-1926 | en | | | Story, Robert Herbert, 1835-1907 [Author of introduction, etc.] | Cathedrals -- Scotland; Abbeys -- Scotland; Church architecture -- Scotland | 2007-06-06 |
The Golden Goose Book | Brooke, L. Leslie (Leonard Leslie), 1862-1940 | en | Illustrated by the author. | The golden goose -- The story of the three bears -- The story of the three little pigs -- Tom Thumb. | | | 2005-04-20 |
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) | Wesley, Samuel, 1662-1735 | en | | An epistle to a friend concerning poetry --
The preface [to the life of our Blessed Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ. An heroic poem: dedicated to Her Most Sacred Majesty. In Ten Books.], Being an Essay on Heroic Poetry. | Hooker, Edward N. (Edward Niles), -1957 [Author of introduction, etc.] | | 2005-08-10 |
Alice's Adventures Under Ground
Being a facsimile of the original Ms. book afterwards developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" | Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 | en | With 37 illustrations by the author. | I. Down the Rabbit-Hole. The Pool of Tears
II. A Long Tale. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
III. Advice From a Caterpillar
IV. The Queen's Croquet-Ground. The Mock Turtle's Story. The Lobster Quadrille. Who Stole the Tarts? | | Fantasy; Fantasy fiction, English | 2006-08-07 |
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849 | en | | | Ward, Humphry, Mrs., 1851-1920 [Author of introduction, etc.] | Landlord and tenant -- Fiction; England -- Fiction; Married women -- Fiction; Alcoholics -- Fiction; England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Domestic fiction | 1997-07-01 |
Essays on Life, Art and Science | Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902 | en | | Introduction Quis Desiderio? -- Ramblings in Cheapside -- The Aunt, The Nieces, and the Dog -- How to make the best of life -- The Sanctuary of Montrigone -- A Medieval Girl School -- Art in the Valley of Saas -- Thought and Language -- The Deadlock in Darwinism. | Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander), 1866-1919 [Author of introduction, etc.] | Art criticism; Science; Evolution | 2002-10-01 |
Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals
As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac | | en | Probable author is Henry Morford; variously attributed also to William H. Armstrong or Col. Jacob G. Frick. | | | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories -- Army of the Potomac; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives | 2007-11-20 |
The Author Of Beltraffio | James, Henry, 1843-1916 | en | | | | Americans -- Europe -- Fiction; Europe -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2007-06-08 |
Erasmus and the Age of Reformation | Huizinga, Johan, 1872-1945 | en | | | Clark, G. N. (George Norman), Sir, 1890-1979 [Author of introduction, etc.] | Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536; Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Netherlands -- Biography; Humanists -- Netherlands -- Biography; Scholars, Medieval -- Netherlands -- Biography; Reformation -- Biography; Netherlands -- Intellectual life -- 16th century; Rotterdam (Netherlands) -- Biography | 2007-10-05 |
Two Years Before the Mast | Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882 | en | See also PG#4277 with Introduction and afterword by Richard Henry Dana III | | Keyes, Homer Eaton, 1875-1938 [Author of introduction, etc.] | Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882; Voyages and travels; Seafaring life; Sailors | 2000-02-01 |
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | | The loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton -- On the decay of the art of lying -- About magnanimous-incident literature -- The grateful poodle -- The benevolent author -- The grateful husband -- Punch, brothers, punch -- The great revolution in Pitcairn -- The canvasser's tale -- An encounter with an interviewer -- Paris notes -- Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany -- Speech on the babies -- Speech on the weather -- Concerning the American language -- Rogers. | | Short stories; Essays | 2004-09-16 |
The Little Tea Book | | en | | The origin of tea -- Tea [poem] / by Francis Saltus Saltus -- little cups of Chinese and Japanese tea -- On tea [poem] / by Edmund Waller -- Some English tea history -- O tea! [poem] / Arthur Gray -- Tea terms (Japanese. Chinese) -- Tea leaves / by John Ernest McCann -- Wit, wisdom and humor of tea -- Fate / Churchill -- Tea making and taking in Japan and China -- Tea-drinking in other lands -- The tea-table -- Ladies, literature and tea -- On our English poetry and this poem upon tea / R. B. -- To the author on his poem upon tea / T. W. -- Poems from J. Roberts pamphlet (London, 1700) -- Dr. Johnson's affinity -- Earliest mention of tea -- Australian tea -- Five o'clock tea -- Tea in ladies' novels -- Sydney Smith -- Dr. Johnson again -- A cup of tea [poem] / Helen Gray Cone. | | | 2006-09-27 |
Half-hours with the Telescope
Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a
Means of Amusement and Instruction. | Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888 | en | Preface:
The object which the Author and Publisher of this little work have proposed to themselves, has been the production, at a moderate price, of a useful and reliable guide to the amateur telescopist.
Among the celestial phenomena described or f | Chapter I.
A Half-Hour on the Structure of the Telescope
Chapter II.
A Half-Hour with Orion, Lepus, Taurus, etc.
Chapter III.
A Half-Hour with Lyra, Hercules, Corvus, Crater, etc.
Chapter IV.
A Half-Hour with Bootes, Scorpio, Ophiuchus, etc.
Chapter V.
A Half-Hour with Andromeda, Cygnus, etc.
Chapter VI.
Half-Hours with the Planets
Chapter VII.
Half-Hours with the Sun and Moon | | Astronomy; Telescopes | 2005-09-28 |
Penguin Persons & Peppermints | Eaton, Walter Prichard, 1878-1957 | en | | Penguin persons -- Spring comes to Thumping Dick -- The passing of the stage sundial -- On singing songs with one finger -- The immorality of shop-windows -- A forgotten American poet -- New poetry and the lingering line -- The lies we learn in our youth -- The bad manners of polite people -- On giving up golf forever -- "Grape-vine" erudition -- Business before grammar -- Wood ashes and progress -- The vacant room in drama -- On giving an author a plot -- The twilight veil -- Spring in the garden -- The bubble, reputation -- The old house on the bend -- Concerning hat-trees -- The shrinking of Kingman's Field -- Mumblety-peg and middle age -- Barber shops of yesterday -- The button box -- Peppermints. | | | 2008-08-23 |
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt | Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798 | en | | Casanova at Dux -- Author's preface -- Translator's preface -- Childhood and adolescence -- A cleric in Naples -- Military career -- Return to Venice -- Milan and Mantua -- Paris -- Venice -- Convent affairs -- The false nun -- Under the leads -- Paris and Holland -- Return to Paris -- Holland and Germany -- Switzerland -- With Voltaire -- Depart Switzerland -- Return to Italy -- Return to Naples -- Back again to Paris -- Milan -- South of France -- To London -- The English -- London to Berlin -- Russia and Poland -- Spain -- Expelled from Spain -- Rome -- Florence to Trieste -- Old age and death. | Machen, Arthur, 1863-1947 [Translator] | Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798; Europe -- History -- 18th century -- Biography | 2004-11-11 |
Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 | Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 | en | | United Amateur Press Association: Exponent of Amateur Journalism -- Department of Public Criticism -- March -- Little Journeys to the Homes of Prominent Amateurs, by Lockhart -- The Teuton's Battle-Song, by Lodbrog -- An Epistle to Rheinhart Kleiner, Esq., Poet-Laureate, and Author of "Another Endless Day" -- The Alchemist -- Ode for July Fourth, 1917 -- News Notes: To M. W. M. -- A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson, by Littlewit -- Reports of Officers: President's Message -- Sunset -- Astrophobos, by Phillips -- At the Root -- Department of Literature: The Literature of Rome -- To Alan Seeger -- Theodore Roosevelt -- A Note on Howard P. Lovecraft's Verse, by Kleiner -- Helene Hoffman Cole—Litterateur -- Americanism -- The White Ship -- To Mistress Sophia Simple, Queen of the Cinema, by Theobald -- Literary Composition -- For What Does the United Stand? -- Poetry and the Gods, by Crofts and Paget-Lowe -- Nyarlathotep -- Editorial -- Winifred Virginia Jackson: A "Different" Poetess -- Ex Oblivione, by Phillips -- At the Home of Poe, by Long. | | | 2009-12-09 |