| title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
| Eventide
A Series of Tales and Poems | Afton, Effie, 1829-1887 | en | | Wimbledon; or, the Hermit of the Cedars -- Scraggiewood, a tale of American life -- Alice Orville; or, life in the South and West -- Come to me when I'm dying -- Ellen -- I'm tired of life -- Lines to a friend, on removing from her native village -- Ho for California! -- N. P. Rogers -- Lines -- Henry Clay -- The soul's destiny -- Lines to a married friend -- New England Sabbath bells -- My heart -- Our Helen -- My bonnet of blue -- Dark-browed Martha. | | | 2006-12-26 |
| Change in the Village | Sturt, George, 1863-1927 | en | | | | Villages -- England -- History -- 19th century; Peasantry -- England -- History -- 19th century; Working class -- England -- History -- 19th century; England -- Rural conditions | 2008-12-13 |
| 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 |
| Heidi
(Gift Edition) | Spyri, Johanna, 1827-1901 | en | | PART I
HEIDI'S YEARS OF LEARNING AND TRAVEL
I Going up to the Alm-Uncle
II. With the Grandfather
III. On the Pasture
IV. In the Grandmother's Hut
V. Two Visitors
VI. A New Chapter with New Things
VII. Miss Rottenmeier Has an Uncomfortable Day
VIII. Great Disturbances in the Sesemann House
IX. The Master of the House Hears of Strange Doings
X. A Grandmama
XI. Heidi Gains in Some Respects and Loses in Others
XII. The Sesemann House is Haunted
XIII. Up the Alp on a Summer Evening
XIV. On Sunday When the Church Bells Ring
PART II
HEIDI MAKES USE OF HER EXPERIENCE
XV. Preparations for a Journey
XVI. A Guest on the Alp
XVII. Retaliation
XVIII. Winter in the Village
XIX. Winter Still Continues
XX. News from Distant Friends
XXI. On Further Events on the Alp
XXII. Something Unexpected Happens
XXIII. Parting to Meet Again | | Orphans -- Fiction; Grandfathers -- Fiction; Mountain life -- Switzerland -- Fiction; Switzerland -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | 2007-03-09 |
| Rídan The Devil And Other Stories
1899 | Becke, Louis, 1855-1913 | en | | Rídan the devil -- A memory of "the system" -- A North Pacific lagoon island -- Bilger, of Sydney -- The vision of Milli the slave -- Denison gets a berth ashore -- Addie Ransom -- In a native village -- Maurice Kinane -- The "killers" of Twofold Bay -- Denison's second berth ashore -- A fish drive on a Micronesian atoll -- Bobaran -- Sea fishing in Australia -- An adventure in the New Hebrides -- The south sea bubble of Charles du Breil -- The white wife and the brown "woman" -- With hook and line on an Austral river -- The wreck of the "Leonora" -- An old colonial mutiny -- A boating adventure in the Carolines -- A Christmas Eve in the Far South Seas. | | Adventure stories, Australian; Pacific Area -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Sea stories; Short stories | 2008-03-15 |
| The Celtic Twilight | Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 | en | | This book -- A teller of tales -- Belief and unbelief -- Mortal help -- A visionary -- Village ghosts -- 'Dust hath closed Helen's eye' -- A knight of the sheep -- An enduring heart -- The sorcerers -- The devil -- Happy and unhappy theologians -- The last gleeman -- Regina, regina pigmeorum, veni -- 'And fair, fierce women' -- Enchanted woods -- Miraculous creatures -- Aristotle of the books -- The swine of the gods -- A voice -- Kidnappers -- The untiring ones -- Earth, fire and water -- The old town -- The man and his boots -- A coward -- The three O'Byrnes and the evil faeries -- Drumcliff and Rosses -- The thick skull of the fortunate -- The religion of a sailor -- Concerning the nearness together of heaven, earth, and purgatory -- The eaters of precious stones -- Our Lady of the hills -- The golden age -- A remonstrance with Scotsmen for having soured the disposition of their ghosts and faeries -- War -- The queen and the fool -- The friends of the people of faery -- Dreams that have no moral -- By the roadside -- Into the twilight. | | Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Homes and haunts -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Childhood and youth; Tales -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Poets, Irish -- Homes and haunts -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Mythology, Celtic -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Poets, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography; Folklore -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Sligo (Ireland : County) -- Social life and customs | 2003-12-01 |