title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's
And Other Stories | Murray, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison), 1840-1904 | en | | | | | 2005-07-16 |
The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate | Anonymous | en | | | Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886 [Illustrator] | | 2006-12-02 |
The Busted Ex-Texan and Other Stories | Murray, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison), 1840-1904 | en | | The busted ex-Texan -- How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney celebrated New Year's -- The leaf of red rose. | | | 2009-04-05 |
In Happy Valley | Fox, John, 1863-1919 | en | | The Courtship of Allaphair -- The Compact of Christopher -- The Lord's Own Level -- The Marquise of Queensberry -- His Last Christmas Gift -- The Angel from Viper -- The Pope of the Big Sandy -- The Goddess of Happy Valley -- The Battle-Prayer of Parson Small -- The Christmas Tree on Pigeon. | | | 2007-01-05 |
Weird Tales from Northern Seas | Lie, Jonas Lauritz Idemil, 1833-1908 | en | | The fisherman and the draug -- Jack of Sjoholm and the gan-finn -- Tug of war -- "The earth draws" -- The cormorants of Andvaer -- Isaac and the parson of Brono -- The wind-gnome -- The huldrefish -- Finn blood -- The homestead westward in the blue mountains -- "It's me!". | | | 2004-09-21 |
Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6)
Authors and Journalists | Various | en | | The Man to Whom Expression was Travail, Rousseau -- The Ploughman-poet, Burns -- How the Farm-boy Became an Editor, Greeley -- The Factory Boy, Dickens -- The Country Parson's Daughter, Bronte -- The Journal of a Brave and Talented Girl, Alcott -- The Troubles of a Job Printer, George -- "The Making of an American", Riis -- Rejected Manuscripts, Rideling -- How She Learned to Speak, Keller. | Dickinson, Asa Don, 1876-1960 [Editor] | | 2006-06-15 |
Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship | | en | | Angela, an Inverted Love Story, by William Schwenk Gilbert -- The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne, by Anthony Trollope -- Anthony Garstin's Courtship, by Hubert Crackanthorpe -- A Little Grey Glove, by George Egerton Bright -- The Woman Beater, by Israel Zangwill. | | Short stories; Courtship -- Fiction | 2005-03-16 |
Off-Hand Sketches
A Little Dashed with Humor | Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay), 1809-1885 | en | | The circuit-preacher -- The protest -- Retrenchment; or, what a man saved by stopping his newspaper -- Hunting up a testimonial -- Trying to be a gentleman -- Taking a prescription -- The Yankee and the Dutchman; or, I'll give or take -- A tipsy parson -- Much ado about nothing; or, the reason why Mrs. Todd didn't speak to Mrs. Jones -- Almost a tragedy -- That John Mason -- A new way to collect an old debt -- A shocking bad memory -- Driving a hard bargain -- Out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, the love of a house -- Marrying a count -- Job's comforters; or, the lady with the nerves -- The code of honour -- Treating a case actively. | | | 2003-11-01 |
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series
Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect | Hartley, John, 1839-1915 | en | | Grimes' New Hat -- Sammywell Sweeps th' Chimley -- Hepsabah's Hat -- Old Dave to th' New Parson -- Sammywell's Eggsperiment -- What came of a Clock Almanac -- Sammywell's Reformation -- Sheffield Smook -- Awr Lad -- Grimes' Galloway -- True Blue; A Romance of Factory Life -- "If aw wor a Woman" -- Sammywell's Soft Snap -- A Bashful Bradfordian -- Th' Owd, Owd Story -- Jim Nation's Fish-shop -- Bob Brierley's Bull Pup -- Troubles and Trials -- Earnin' a Honest Penny -- Th' Next Mornin' -- Christmas Oysters -- Chairley's Coortin -- What a Gallus Button did | | | 2006-04-14 |
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 |