title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
My First Cruise
and Other stories | Kingston, William Henry Giles, 1814-1880 | en | | My first cruise / by W.H.G. Kingston -- The travelling tin-man / by Miss Leslie -- The beautiful gate -- The chimaera / by N. Hawthorne. | | Sailors -- Juvenile fiction; Castaways -- Juvenile fiction; Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction; South America -- Juvenile fiction; Peddlers -- Juvenile fiction; Farm life -- Juvenile fiction; Pennsylvania -- Juvenile fiction; Minstrels -- Juvenile fiction; Fantasy; Blind -- Juvenile fiction | 2007-10-17 |
Mugby Junction | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 | en | | Barbox Brothers / by Charles Dickens
Barbox Brothers and Co. / by Charles Dickens
Main line. The boy at Mugby / by Charles Dickens
No. 1 branch line. The signalman / by Charles Dickens
No. 2 branch line. The engine-driver / by Andrew Halliday
No. 3 branch line. The compensation house / by Charles Collins
No. 4 branch line. The travelling post office / by Hesba Stretton
No. 5 branch line. The engineer / by Amelia Edwards. | | Railroad stations -- England -- London -- Fiction; Psychological fiction | 2009-01-28 |
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | | The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg -- My First Lie, and How I Got out of it -- The Esquimaux Maiden's Romance -- Christian Science and The Book of Mrs. Eddy -- Is He Living or Is He Dead? -- My Debut as a Literary Person -- At The Appetite-cure -- Concerning The Jews -- From The 'London Times' of 1904 -- About Play-acting -- Travelling with a Reformer -- Diplomatic Pay and Clothes -- Luck -- The Captain's Story -- Stirring Times in Austria -- Meisterschaft -- My Boyhood Dreams -- To The above Old People -- In Memoriam - Olivia Susan Clemens. | | Short stories; City and town life -- Fiction; Honesty -- Fiction; Humorous stories, American; United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction | 2004-09-20 |
Worldly Ways and Byways | Gregory, Eliot, 1854-1915 | en | | Charm -- The moth and the star -- Contrasted travelling -- The outer and the inner woman -- On some gilded misalliances -- The complacency of mediocrity -- The discontent of talent -- Slouch -- Social suggestion -- Bohemia -- Social exiles -- "Seven Ages" of furniture -- Our elite and public life -- The small summer hotel -- A false start -- A holy land -- Royalty at play -- A rock ahead -- The Grand Prix -- "The treadmill" -- "Like master like man" -- An English invasion of the Riviera -- A common weakness -- Changing Paris -- Contentment -- The climber -- The last of the dandies -- A nation on the wing -- Husks -- The Faubourg St. Germain -- Men's manners -- An ideal hostess -- The introducer -- A question and an answer -- Living on Your friends -- American society in Italy -- The Newport of the past -- A conquest of Europe -- A race of slaves -- Introspection. | | Sociology; American essays -- 19th century | 1995-12-01 |