| title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
| The City That Was; a requiem of old San Francisco | Irwin, Will, 1873-1948 | en | | | | San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description and travel; San Francisco (Calif.) -- History; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social life and customs | 2002-07-01 |
| The Schoolmistress, and other stories | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 | en | | The schoolmistress -- A nervous breakdown -- Misery -- Champagne -- After the theatre -- A lady's story -- In exile -- The cattle dealers -- Sorrow -- On official duty -- The first-class passenge -- A tragic actor -- A transgression -- Small fry -- The requiem -- In the coach-house -- Panic fears -- The bet -- The head gardener's story -- The beauties -- The shoemaker and the devil | | Short stories; Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2006-02-22 |
| Old Scores and New Readings
Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians | Runciman, John F., 1866-1916 | en | | William Byrde ... his mass -- Our last great musician (Henry Purcell, 1658-95) -- Bach; the "Matthew" passion and the "John" -- Handel -- Haydn and his "Creation" -- Mozart, his "Don Giovanni" and the Requiem -- "Fidelio" -- Schubert -- Weber and Wagner -- Italian opera, dead and dying -- Verdi young and Verdi younger -- "The flying Dutchman" -- "Lohengrin" -- "Tristan and Isolda" -- "Siegfried" -- "The dusk of the gods" -- "Parsifal" -- Bayreuth in 1897 -- A note on Brahms -- Anton Dvorák -- Tschaikowsky and his "Pathetic" symphony -- Lamoureux and his orchestra. | | Opera; Music; Musicians | 2005-03-15 |