| Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor
Volume I | Various | en | | IRVING -- Wouter Van Twiller -- Wilhelmus Kieft -- Peter Stuyvesant -- Antony Van Corlear -- General Van Poffenburgh -- FRANKLIN Maxims -- Model of a Letter of Recommendation of a Person You Are Unacquainted with -- Epitaph for Himself -- BUTLER Nothing to Wear -- BEECHER Deacon Marble -- The Deacon's Trout -- The Dog Noble and the Empty Hole -- GREENE Old Grimes -- HOLMES My Aunt -- The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, the Wonderful -- "One-hoss Shay" -- Foreign Correspondence -- Music-Pounding -- The Ballad of the Oysterman -- WILLIS Miss Albina McLush -- Love in a Cottage -- PALMER A Smack in School -- SHILLABER ("Mrs. Partington") -- Fancy Diseases -- Bailed Out -- Seeking a Comet -- Going to California -- Mrs. Partington in Court -- SILL Five Lives -- FIELDS The Owl-Critic -- The Alarmed Skipper -- HAY Little Breeches -- SHAW ("Josh Billings") Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats -- LOWELL The Yankee Recruit -- What Mr. Robinson Thinks -- WARNER My Summer in a Garden -- COZZENS Living in the Country -- LELAND Hans Breitmann's Party -- WHICHER Tim Crane and the Widow -- SAXE The Stammering Wife -- KELLEY ("Parmenas Mix") He Came to Pay -- HOLLEY A Pleasure Exertion -- STEDMAN The Diamond Wedding -- MISCELLANEOUS Why He Left -- A Boy's Essay on Girls -- Identified -- One Better -- A Rendition -- A Cause for Thanks -- Crowded -- The Wedding Journey -- A Case of Conscience -- He Rose to the Occasion -- Polite -- Lost, Strayed or Stolen -- A Gentle Complaint -- Music by the Choir -- TWAIN The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calveras County. | Masson, Thomas L., 1866-1934 [Editor] | | 2007-04-21 |
| 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 |