| title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
| The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | en | | The Purloined Letter -- The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade -- A Descent into the Maelström -- Von Kempelen and his Discovery -- Mesmeric Revelation -- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar -- The Black Cat -- The Fall of the House of Usher -- Silence: a Fable -- The Masque of the Red Death -- The Cask of Amontillado -- The Imp of the Perverse -- The Island of the Fay -- The Assignation -- The Pit and the Pendulum -- The Premature Burial -- The Domain of Arnheim -- Landor's Cottage -- William Wilson -- The Tell-Tale Heart -- Berenice -- Eleonora. | | Fantasy fiction; Horror tales, American; American fiction -- 19th century; Short stories | 2000-04-01 |
| Essays in Little | Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 | en | | Alexandre Dumas -- Mr. Stevenson's works -- Thomas Haynes Bayly -- Theodore de Banville -- Homer and the study of Greek -- The last fashionable novel -- Thackeray -- Dickens -- Adventures of Buccaneers -- The sagas -- Charles Kingsley -- Charles Lever: his books, adventures and misfortunes -- The poems of Sir Walter Scott -- John Bunyan -- Letter to a young journalist -- Mr.Kipling's stories | Adams, William Davenport, 1828-1891 [Compiler] | Literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | 1999-01-01 |
| Phebe, the Blackberry Girl
Uncle Thomas's Stories for Good Children | Anonymous | en | | The blackberry girl -- Good children -- Poor crazy Robert -- The pet lamb -- Father William and the young man -- The little girl and her pets -- The flowers -- The child and the flowers -- One, two, buckle my shoe -- Washing and dressing -- The industrious boy -- We are seven / by Wm. Wordsworth -- The idle boy -- Casabianca -- Twinkle, twinkle, little star. | | Children -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction; Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Children and animals -- Juvenile fiction; Children's poetry | 2009-05-02 |
| The Conquest of New France
A chronicle of the colonial wars | Wrong, George McKinnon, 1860-1948 | en | | | Johnson, Allen, 1870-1931 [Editor] | United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); United States -- History -- King William's War, 1689-1697; United States -- History -- Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713; United States -- History -- King George’s War, 1744-1748; United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 | 2002-02-01 |
| Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 | Various | en | | The Brigade Commander, by J. W. Deforest -- Who Was She?, by Bayard Taylor -- Mademoiselle Olympe Zabriski, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Brother Sebastian's Friendship, by Harold Frederic -- A Good-For-Nothing, by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen -- The Idyl Of Red Gulch, by Bret Harte -- Crutch, The Page, by George Alfred Townsend ("Gath") -- In Each Other's Shoes, by George Parsons Lathrop -- The Denver Express, by A. A. Hayes -- Jaune D'antimoine, by Thomas Allibone Janvier -- Ole 'Stracted, by Thomas Nelson Page -- Our Consul At Carlsruhe, by F. J. Stimson ("J. S. Of Dale"). | Patten, William, 1868-1936 [Editor] | | 2005-08-20 |
| And Even Now | Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956 | en | HTML | A relic (1918) -- "How shall I word it?" (1910) -- Mobled king (1911) -- Kolniyatsch (1913) -- No. 2. The Pines (1914) -- A letter that was not written (1914) -- Books within books (1914) -- The golden drugget (1918) -- Hosts and guests (1918) -- A point to be remembered by very eminent men (1918) -- Servants (1918) -- Going out for a walk (1918) -- Quia imperfectum (1918) -- Something defeasible (1919) -- "A clergyman" (1918) -- The crime (1920) -- In homes unblest (1919) -- William and Mary (1920) -- On speaking French (1919) -- Laughter (1920). | | | 1999-11-01 |
| Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) | Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 | en | | Worries of a Winter Walk -- Summer Isles of Eden -- Wild Flowers of the Asphalt -- A Circus in the Suburbs -- A She Hamlet -- The Midnight Platoon -- The Beach at Rockaway -- Sawdust in the Arena -- At a Dime Museum -- American Literature in Exile -- The Horse Show -- The Problem of the Summer -- Aesthetic New York Fifty-odd Years Ago -- From New York into New England -- The Art of the Adsmith -- The Psychology of Plagiarism -- Puritanism in American Fiction -- The What and How in Art -- Politics in American Authors Storage -- "Floating down the River on the O-hi-o". | | Fiction -- History and criticism; American fiction -- History and criticism; Criticism | 2004-10-22 |
| 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 |
| A Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade | James, William Dobein, 1764-1838 | en | | | | Marion, Francis, 1732-1795; South Carolina -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; Swamp Fox; Marion, Francis, 1732-1795 -- Correspondence; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786 -- Correspondence; United States. Continental Army -- Biography; Generals -- United States -- Biography; South Carolina -- Militia -- Biography; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | 1997-05-01 |
| Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 | McCarthy, Carlton, 1847- | en | | | Sheppard, William Ludwell, 1833-1912 [Illustrator] | McCarthy, Carlton, 1847-; Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia -- Military life; Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories | 2008-05-26 |
| The Red Romance Book | | en | | How William of Palermo was carried off by the Werwolf -- The Disenchantment of the Werwolf -- The Slaying of Hallgerda's Husbands -- The Death of Gunnar -- Njal's Burning -- The Lady of Solace -- Una and the Lion -- How the Red Cross Knight slew the Dragon -- Amys and Amyle -- The Tale of the Cid -- The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance -- The Adventure of the Two Armies who turned out to be Flocks of Sheep -- The Adventure of the Boiling Lights -- The Helmet of Mambrino -- How Don Quixote was Enchanted while guarding the Castle -- Don Quixote’s Home-coming -- The Meeting of Huon and Oberon, King of the Fairies -- How Oberon saved Huon -- Havelok and Goldborough -- Cupid and Psyche -- Sir Bevis the Strong -- Ogier the Dane -- How the Ass became a Man again -- Guy of Warwick -- How Bradamante conquered the Wizard -- The Ring of Bradamante -- The Fulfilling of the Prophecy -- The Knight of the Sun -- How the Knight of the Sun rescued his Father. | | | 2008-02-15 |
| The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes | | en | | Feodor Jagor's Travels in the Philippines (the out-of-print 1875 English translation corrected from the original German text) -- The state of the Philippines in 1810, by Tomas de Comyn (William Walton's 1821 translation modernized) -- Manila and Sulu in 1842, by Com. Chas. Wilkes (Narrative of U.S. exploring expedition 1838-42, v. 5) -- Manila in 1819, by Lieut. John White (from the "History of a voyage to the China Sea") -- The peopling of the Philippines, by Doctor Rudolf Virchow (O. T. Mason's translation; Smithsonian institution 1899 report) -- People and prospects of the Philippines, by an English merchant, 1778, and a consul, 1878 (from Blackwood's and the Cornhill magazine) -- Filipino merchants of the early 1890s, by F. Karuth. | Craig, Austin, 1872- [Editor] | | 2004-01-01 |
| True Stories of Wonderful Deeds
Pictures and Stories for Little Folk | Anonymous | en | | The Royal Oak -- Bonnie Prince Charlie -- Nelson and Hardy -- Watt and the kettle -- Queen Victoria and her soldiers -- The relief of Lucknow -- Grace Darling -- David Livingstone -- The battle of Waterloo -- The charge of the Light Brigade -- The coronation of King Edward VII -- War -- A boy's heroic deeds -- A cat's extraordinary leap -- A brave queen -- King Alfred and the cakes -- Not Angles, but Angels -- Hereward the Wake -- Canute -- The brave men of Calais -- Wat Tyler -- Bruce and the spider -- Richard and Blondel -- The White Ship -- Joan of Arc -- Afloat with a tiger -- Queen Margaret and the robbers -- William Caxton -- Sir Philip Sidney -- The "Revenge" -- The Pilgrim Fathers -- Guy Fawkes -- Cromwell and his Ironsides -- The Spanish Armada -- The defence of Lathom House -- The outlawed archers -- Elizabeth and Raleigh. | | | 2007-07-16 |
| Literature and Life (Complete) | Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 | en | | Man of Letters in Business -- Confessions of a Summer Colonist -- The Young Contributor -- Last Days in a Dutch Hotel -- Anomalies of the Short Story -- Spanish Prisoners of War -- American Literary Centers -- Standard Household Effect Co. -- Notes of a Vanished Summer -- Worries of a Winter Walk -- Summer Isles of Eden -- Wild Flowers of the Asphalt -- A Circus in the Suburbs -- A She Hamlet -- The Midnight Platoon -- The Beach at Rockaway -- Sawdust in the Arena -- At a Dime Museum -- American Literature in Exile -- The Horse Show -- The Problem of the Summer -- Aesthetic New York Fifty-odd Years Ago -- From New York into New England -- The Art of the Adsmith -- The Psychology of Plagiarism -- Puritanism in American Fiction -- The What and How in Art -- Politics in American Authors Storage -- "Floating down the River on the O-hi-o". | | Literature -- Collections; Essays; Short stories | 2004-10-22 |
| The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | | The 30,000 Dollar Bequest
A Dog's Tale
Was It Heaven? Or Hell?
A Cure for the Blues
The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant
The Californian's Tale
A Helpless Situation
A Telephonic Conversation
Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale
The Five Boons of Life
The First Writing-machines
Italian without a Master
Italian with Grammar
A Burlesque Biography
How to Tell a Story
General Washington's Negro Body-servant
Wit Inspirations of the "Two-year-olds"
An Entertaining Article
A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
Amended Obituaries
A Monument to Adam
A Humane Word from Satan
Introduction to "The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English"
Advice to Little Girls
Post-mortem Poetry
The Danger of Lying in Bed
Portrait of King William III
Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?
Extracts from Adam's Diary
Eve's Diary | | Fiction; Short stories | 2004-09-14 |
| Steep Trails
California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon | Muir, John, 1838-1914 | en | | Wild wool -- A geologist's winter walk -- Summer days at Mount Shasta -- A perilous night on Shasta's summit -- Shasta rambles and Modoc memories -- The city of the Saints -- A great storm in Utah -- Bathing in Salt Lake-- Mormon lilies -- The San Gabriel Valley -- The San Gabriel Mountains -- Nevada farms -- Nevada forests -- Nevada's timber belt -- Glacial phenomena in Nevada -- Nevada's dead towns -- Puget Sound -- The forests of Washington --People and towns of Puget Sound -- An ascent of Mount Rainier -- The physical and climatic characteristics of Oregon -- The forests of Oregon and their inhabitants -- The rivers of Oregon -- The Grand Canyon of the Colorado. | Badè, William Frederic, 1871-1936 [Editor] | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; Shasta, Mount (Calif. : Mountain); Forests and forestry -- West (U.S.) | 1995-09-01 |
| Russian Fairy Tales
A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore | | en | | The Fiend -- The Dead Mother -- The Dead Witch -- The Treasure -- The Cross-Surety -- The Awful Drunkard -- The Bad Wife -- The Golovikha -- The Three Copecks -- The Miser -- The Fool and the Birch-Tree -- The Mizgir -- The Smith and the Demon -- Ivan Popyalof -- The Norka -- Marya Morevna -- Koshchei the Deathless -- The Water Snake -- The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise -- The Baba Yaga -- Vasilissa the Fair -- The Witch -- The Witch and the Sun's Sister -- One-Eyed Likho -- Woe -- Friday -- Wednesday -- The Léshy -- Vazuza and Volga -- Sozh and Dnieper -- The Metamorphosis of the Dnieper, the Volga, and the Dvina -- Frost -- The Blind Man and the Cripple -- Princess Helena the Fair -- Emilian the Fool -- The Witch Girl -- The Headless Princess -- The Soldier's Midnight Watch -- The Warlock -- The Fox-Physician -- The Fiddler in Hell -- The Ride on the Gravestone -- The Two Friends -- The Shroud -- The Coffin-Lid -- The Two Corpses -- The Dog and the Corpse -- The Soldier and the Vampire -- Elijah the Prophet and Nicholas -- The Priest with the Greedy Eyes -- The Hasty Word. | Ralston, William Ralston Shedden, 1828-1889 [Translator] | | 2007-08-22 |
| Americans All
Stories of American Life of To-Day | | en | | The Right Promethean Fire, by Martin -- Sketch of George Madden Martin -- The Land of Heart's Desire, by Kelly -- Sketch of Myra Kelly -- The Tenor, by Bunner -- Sketch of H. C. Bunner -- The Passing of Priscilla Winthrop, by White -- Sketch of William Allen White -- The Gift of the Magi, by Henry -- Sketch of O. Henry -- The Gold Brick, by Whitlock -- Sketch of Brand Whitlock -- His Mother's Son, by Ferber -- Sketch of Edna Ferber -- Bitter-Sweet, by Hurst -- Sketch of Fannie Hurst -- The Riverman, by White -- Sketch of Stewart E. White -- Flint and Fire; How "Flint and Fire" Started and Grew, by Canfield -- Sketch of Dorothy Canfield -- The Ordeal at Mt. Hope, by Dunbar -- Sketch of Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Israel Drake, by Mayo -- Sketch of Katherine Mayo -- The Struggles and Triumph of Isidro de los Maestros, by Hopper -- Sketch of James M. Hopper -- The Citizen, by Dwyer -- Sketch of James F. Dwyer. | Heydrick, Benjamin A. (Benjamin Alexander), 1871-1932? [Editor] | Short stories, American; United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2007-10-26 |
| The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10
Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle | | en | | Bismarck as a National Type. By Kuno Francke. -- The Love Letters of Bismarck. -- Correspondence of William I. and Bismarck. -- From "Thoughts and Recollections." -- Bismarck as an Orator. By Edmund von Mach. -- Bismarck: Professorial Politics -- Speech from the Throne -- Alsace-Lorraine a Glacis Against France -- We Shall Never Go to Canossa! -- Bismarck as the "Honest Broker" -- Salus Publica--Bismarck's Only Lode-Star -- Practical Christianity -- We Germans Fear God, and Nought Else in the World -- Mount the Guards at the Warthe and the Vistula! -- Long Live the Emperor and the Empire! -- The Life of Moltke. By Karl Detlev Jessen. -- von Moltke: The Political and Military Conditions of the Ottoman Empire in 1836. -- A Trip to Brussa. -- A Journey to Mossul. -- A Bullfight in Spain. -- Description of Moscow. -- The Peace Movement. -- Fighting on the Frontier. -- Battle of Gravelotte--St. Privat. -- Consolatory Thoughts on the Earthly Life and a Future Existence. -- The Life and Work of Ferdinand Lassalle. By Arthur N. Holcombe. -- Lassalle: The Workingmen's Programme. -- Science and the Workingmen. -- Open Letter to the Central Committee. | Francke, Kuno, 1855-1930 [Editor] | | 2004-07-30 |
| Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy
A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. | Anonymous | en | | Adventures of Capt. Woodward and Five Seamen in the island of Celebes -- An Occurrence at sea -- Loss of H. B. M ship Phœnix, off Cuba -- An account of the Whale Fishery, with anecdotes of the dangers attending it -- Loss of the Brig Tyrrel -- Loss of the Peggy -- Loss of H. B. M. ship Litchfield -- Wreck of the Rothsay Castle Steamer -- Loss of the French ship Droits de L'Homme -- Loss of H. B. M. ship Queen Charlotte -- A Scene on the Atlantic Ocean -- Wreck of the French Frigate Medusa, on the Arguin Bank -- Loss of the Royal George -- Loss of the Æneas, transport -- The Absent Ship -- Loss of the Halsewell, East Indiaman -- An account of Four Russians, abandoned on the Island of East Spitzbergen -- Loss of the Amphitrite, Female Convict Ship -- The Mutineers, a Tale of the Sea -- Fate of Seven Sailors, left on the island of St. Maurice -- Seamen wintering in Spitzbergen -- A Man Overboard -- An Escape through the Cabin-Windows -- Tom Cringle's Log -- Loss of the Nautilus, Sloop of War -- Wreck of a Slave Ship -- The Wrecked Seamen -- Adventures of Philip Ashton -- Explosion of H. B. M. ship Amphion -- Loss of H. B. M. ship La Tribune -- Burning of the Prince, a French East Indiaman -- Wreck of the Schooner Betsey -- Early American Heroism -- Fingal's Cave -- Loss of H. B. M. ship Ramillies -- Preservation of Nine Seamen -- Capt. Ross's Expedition -- Loss of the Catharine, Venus, and Piedmont, transports, and three Merchant Ships -- Wreck of the Ship Sidney -- Loss of the Duke William, transport -- Commodore Barney -- Naval Battles of the United States -- Address to the Ocean. | | Shipwrecks; Mutiny; Pirates; Seafaring life | 2008-07-06 |
| The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) | Various | en | | Abou Ben Butler, by Paul -- The Advertiser, by Field -- After the Funeral, by Bailey -- The Apostasy of William Dodge, by Waterloo -- The Ballad of Grizzly Gulch, by Irwin -- Banty Tim, by Hay -- The Bear Story, by Riley -- The Book-Canvasser, by Anonymous -- A Bully Boat and a Brag Captain, by Smith -- The Bumblebeaver, by Cox -- Casey at the Bat, by Thayer -- Chad's Story of the Goose, by Smith -- Colonel Carter's Story of the Postmaster, by Smith -- Comic Miseries, by Saxe -- The Coquette, by Saxe -- De Gradual Commence, by Amsbary -- Evening, by Holmes -- The Fairport Art Museum, by Thanet -- The Famous Mulligan Ball, by Stanton -- The Genial Idiot Discusses the Music Cure, by Bangs -- Grains of Truth, by Nye -- Her Valentine, by Hovey -- It Pays to be Happy, by Masson -- James and Reginald, by Field -- Jones, by Osbourne -- Latter-Day Warnings, by Holmes -- Lost Chords, by Field -- Love Sonnets of an Office Boy, by Kiser -- The Martyrdom of Mr. Stevens, by Quick -- The Merchant and the Book-Agent, by Anonymous -- The Modern Farmer, by Appleton -- The Mosquito, by Bryant -- Mr. Dooley on the Game of Football, by Dunne -- My First Cigar, by Burdette -- My Philosofy, by Riley -- The Octopussycat, by Cox -- The Old Settler, by Mott -- The Owl-Critic, by Fields -- The Paintermine, by Cox -- Shonny Schwartz, by Adams -- The Society Upon the Stanislaus, by Harte -- So Wags the World, by Warner -- A Spring Feeling, by Carman -- The Talking Horse, by McIntyre -- The Thompson Street Poker Club, by Carleton -- Thoughts fer the Discuraged Farmer, by Riley -- "Tiddle-iddle-iddle-iddle-bum! bum!", by Nesbit -- Unconscious Humor, by Wetherell -- Up and Down Old Brandywine, by Riley -- Verre Definite, by Amsbary -- Wasted Opportunities, by Greene -- The Weddin', by Hartswick -- The Welsh Rabbittern, by Cox -- When the Allegash Drive Goes Through, by Day -- The Wild Boarder, by Cox. | Wilder, Marshall Pinckney, 1859-1915 [Editor] | American wit and humor; American literature -- Humor | 2006-09-18 |