title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men | Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty, 1841-1885 | en | | Brothers of Pity -- Father Hedgehog and His Neighbours -- Toots and Boots -- The Hens of Hencastle -- Flaps -- A Week Spent in a Glass Pond -- Among the Merrows -- Tiny's Tricks and Toby's Tricks -- The Owl in the Ivy Bush. | | | 2005-06-23 |
Soap-Bubble Stories
For Children | Barry, Fanny | en | | The troll in the church fountain -- The imp in the chintz curtain -- Heartsease -- A story of Siena -- The stone-maiden -- The grass of Parnassus -- The hedgehog's coffee party -- Uncle Volodia -- The angel and the lilies -- The alphen-echo -- The scroll in the market place -- A scrap of Etruscan pottery -- The goats on the glacier -- The great lady's chief-mourner -- Dame Fossie's China dog -- Princess Sidigunda's golden shoes -- The badger's school -- Bobbie's two shillings. | | | 2009-03-06 |
The Toys of Peace, and other papers | Saki, 1870-1916 | en | | The toys of peace -- Louise -- Tea -- The disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh -- The wolves of Cernogratz -- Louis -- The guests -- The penance -- The phantom luncheon -- A bread and butter miss -- Bertie's Christmas Eve -- Forewarned -- The interlopers -- Quail seed -- Canossa -- The threat -- Excepting Mrs. Pentherby -- Mark -- The hedgehog -- The Mappined life -- Fate -- The bull -- Morlvera -- Shock tactics -- The seven cream jugs -- The occasional garden -- The sheep -- The oversight -- Hyacinth -- The image of the lost soul -- The purple of the Balkan kings -- The cupboard of the yesterdays -- For the duration of the war. | | | 1998-10-01 |
Creatures of the Night
A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain | Rees, Alfred Wellesley, 1872-1917 | en | | The otter: I. The holt among the alders. II. The pool beneath the farmstead. III. The gorge of Alltycafn.
The water-vole: I. Our village hounds. II. The burrow in the river bank. III. Wild hunting. IV. Saved by an enemy. V. The courage of fear.
The field-vole: I. Hidden pathways in the grass. II. The valley of Olwen. III. A barren hillside.
The fox: I. The last hunt. II. A new home. III. The cub and the polecat. IV. A cry of the night.
The brown hare: I. The upland cornfield. II. March madness. III. The chase.
The badger: I. A woodland solitude. II. Home discipline. III. Fear of the trap. IV. The winter "oven." V. Hillside trails.
The hedgehog: I. A vagabond hunter. II. An experience in snake-killing.
Night in the woods: I. Haunts of the badger and the fox. II. The Crag of Vortigern. | | Animal behavior; Animals -- Anecdotes | 2009-07-08 |
The Green Fairy Book | | en | | The Blue Bird -- The Half-Chick -- The Story of Caliph Stork -- The Enchanted Watch -- Rosanella -- Sylvain and Jocosa -- Fairy Gifts -- Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla -- Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine -- The Three Little Pigs -- Heart of Ice -- The Enchanted Ring -- The Snuff-box -- The Golden Blackbird -- The Little Soldier -- The Magic Swan -- The Dirty Shepherdess -- The Enchanted Snake -- The Biter Bit -- King Kojata -- Prince Fickle and Fair Helena -- Puddocky -- The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs -- The Story of the Three Bears -- Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida -- Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes -- Jorinde and Joringel -- Allerleirauh; or, the Many-furred Creature -- The Twelve Huntsmen -- Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle -- The Crystal Coffin -- The Three Snake-leaves -- The Riddle -- Jack my Hedgehog -- The Golden Lads -- The White Snake -- The Story of a Clever Tailor -- The Golden Mermaid -- The War of the Wolf and the Fox -- The Story of the Fisherman and his Wife -- The Three Musicians -- The Three Dogs. | Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 [Editor] | | 2005-01-01 |