title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Notes of a War Correspondent | Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 | en | | The Cuban-Spanish war -- The Greek-Turkish war -- The Spanish-American war -- The South African war -- The Japanese-Russian war -- A war correspondent's kit | Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909 [Illustrator] | Military history, Modern; Spanish-American War, 1898; South African War, 1899-1902; Greco-Turkish War, 1897; Cuba -- History -- Revolution, 1895-1898 | 2002-01-01 |
Turkish Prisoners in Egypt
A Report by the Delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross | International Committee of the Red Cross | en | | | | | 2004-01-01 |
The Mystery of a Turkish Bath | Rita | en | | | | Dime novels; Juvenile fiction | 2008-05-31 |
The Song of Deirdra, King Byrge and his Brothers
and Other Ballads | Borrow, George Henry, 1803-1881 | en | | The song of Deirdra -- The diver -- King Byrge and his brothers -- Turkish hymn to Mahomet. | Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937 [Editor] | | 2009-05-15 |
The Turkish Jester
or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi | Nasreddin, Hoca | en | This is a very rare work by George Borrow, English eccentric and polyglot. It's a translation of a collection of short stories about Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi - many of which show the Cogia's wisdom. | | Borrow, George Henry, 1803-1881 [Translator] | | 2005-07-08 |
The Turkish Bath
Its Design and Construction | Allsop, Robert Owen | en | | | | | 2009-11-10 |
Reginald in Russia and other sketches | Saki, 1870-1916 | en | | Reginald in Russia -- The reticence of Lady Anne -- The lost Sanjak -- The sex that doesn't shop -- The blood-feud of Toad-Water -- A young Turkish catastrophe -- Judkin of the parcels -- Gabriel-Ernest -- The saint and the goblin -- The soul of Laploshka -- The bag -- The strategist -- Cross currents -- The baker's dozen -- The mouse. | | Fiction; Short stories | 1999-08-01 |
Told in the Coffee House
Turkish Tales | | en | | How the Hodja saved Allah -- Better is the folly of woman than the wisdom of man -- The Hanoum and the unjust Cadi -- What happended to Hadji, a merchant of the Bezestan -- How the junkman travelled to find treasure in his own yard -- How Chapkin Halid became chief detective -- How cobbler Ahmet became the chief astrologer -- The wise son of Ali Pasha -- The merciful Khan -- King Kara-Kush of Bithynia -- The prayer rug and the dishonest steward -- The goose, the eye, the daughter and the arm -- The forty wise men -- How the priest knew that it would snow -- Who was the thirteenth son? -- Paradise sold by the yard -- Jew turned Turk -- The metamorphosis -- The Calif Omar -- Kalaidji Avram of Balata -- How Mehmet Ali Pasha of Egypt administered justice -- How the farmer learned to cure his wife, a Turkish Aesop -- The language of birds -- The swallow's advice -- We know not what the dawn may bring forth -- Old men made young -- The bribe -- How the Devil lost his wager -- The effects of Raki. | | Tales -- Turkey; Folklore -- Turkey | 2009-12-02 |