title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Travels in North America, From Modern Writers
With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View
of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the
Globe | Bingley, William, 1774-1823 | en | | | | United States -- Description and travel; Mexico -- Description and travel; Canada -- Description and travel | 2009-03-13 |
Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe,
James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor
A Book for Young Americans | Cody, Sherwin, 1868-1959 | en | | | | Irving, Washington, 1783-1859; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891; Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878; Authors, American | 2004-02-01 |
Australian Writers | Byrne, Desmond | en | | | | | 2009-04-24 |
Science and Morals and Other Essays | Windle, Bertram Coghill Alan, Sir, 1858-1929 | en | | Science and morals -- Theophobia and Nemesis -- Within and without the system -- Science in "bondage" -- Science and the war -- Heredity and "arrangement" -- "Special creation" -- Catholic writers and spontaneous generation -- A theory of life. | | Science; Religion and science; Essays | 2008-02-25 |
As We Were Saying | Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 | en | | Rose and chrysanthemum -- The red bonnet -- The loss in civilization -- Social screaming -- Does refinement kill individuality? -- The directoire gown -- The mystery of the sex -- The clothes of fiction -- The broad A -- Chewing gum -- Women in congress -- Shall women propose? -- Frocks and the stage -- Altruism -- Social clearing-house -- Dinner-table talk -- Naturalization -- Art of governing -- Love of display -- Value of the commonplace -- The burden of Christmas -- The responsibility of writers -- The cap and gown -- A tendency of the age -- A locoed novelist. | | | 2004-12-05 |
The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 | | en | | The Apparition of Mrs. Veal, by Daniel Defoe -- The Mysterious Bride, by James Hogg -- The Devil and Tom Walker, by Washington Irving -- Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allan Poe -- Rab and His Friends, by Dr. John Brown -- The Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn, by Charles Dickens -- A Story of Seven Devils, by Frank R. Stockton -- A Dog's Tale, by Mark Twain -- The Outcasts of Poker Flat, by Bret Harte -- The Three Strangers, by Thomas Hardy -- Julia Bride, by Henry James -- A Lodging for the Night, by Robert Louis Stevenson. | | | 2003-11-01 |
Heretics | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 | en | | Introductory remarks on the importance of orthodoxy -- On the negative spirit -- On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and making the world small -- Mr. Bernard Shaw -- Mr. H.G. Wells and the giants -- Christmas and the aesthetes -- Omar and the sacred vine -- The mildness of the yellow press -- The moods of Mr. George Moore -- On sandals and simplicity -- Science and the savages -- Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson -- Celts and celtophiles -- On certain modern writers and the institution of the family -- On smart novelists and the smart set -- On Mr. McCabe and a divine frivolity -- On the wit of Whistler -- The fallacy of the young nation -- Slum novelists and the slums -- Concluding remarks on the importance of orthodoxy. | | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936; Apologetics | 1996-03-01 |