title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
The Royal Pawn of Venice
A Romance of Cyprus | Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs., -1927 | en | | | | Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus, 1454-1510 -- Fiction; Queens -- Cyprus -- Fiction; Cyprus -- History -- Venetian rule, 1474-1570 -- Fiction; Biographical fiction; Historical fiction | 2008-03-08 |
The Iron Horse | Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894 | en | | | | Biographical fiction; Engineering -- Juvenile fiction; Industrialization -- Juvenile fiction; Railroads -- Juvenile fiction; Telegraph -- Juvenile fiction; Voyages and travels -- Juvenile fiction | 2007-06-07 |
1492 | Johnston, Mary, 1870-1936 | en | For Columbus Day, 1998 | | | Columbus, Christopher -- Fiction; Discoveries in geography -- Fiction; Jewish sailors -- Fiction; Explorers -- Fiction; Admirals -- Fiction; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Fiction; Biographical fiction; Historical fiction; Sea stories | 1999-03-01 |
The Magnificent Adventure
Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and
the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman | Hough, Emerson, 1857-1923 | en | | | Keller, Arthur Ignatius, 1866-1924 [Illustrator] | Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) -- Fiction; Discoveries in geography -- Fiction; Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 -- Fiction; Explorers -- Fiction; West (U.S.) -- History -- To 1848 -- Fiction; Biographical fiction | 2009-10-20 |
Tentation de saint Antoine. English | Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880 | en | | | | Anthony, of Egypt, Saint, ca. 250-355 or 6 -- Fiction; Christian saints -- Fiction; Egypt -- Fiction; Biographical fiction; Christian fiction | 2008-04-12 |
Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship | Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 | en | | Biographical -- My First Visit to New England -- First Impressions of Literary New York -- Roundabout to Boston -- Literary Boston As I Knew It -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The White Mr. Longfellow -- Studies of Lowell -- Cambridge Neighbors -- A Belated Guest -- My Mark Twain. | | American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Authors, American | 2004-10-22 |
The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush | Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 | en | Also titled: The Yellowplush papers. | Miss Shum's husband -- The amours of Mr. Deuceace -- Skimmings from "The diary of George IV" -- Foring parts -- Mr. Deauceace at Paris -- Mr. Yellowplush's ajew -- Epistles to the literati | | Domestic fiction; Biographical fiction; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Master and servant -- Fiction | 2001-09-01 |
Manuel Pereira | Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) | en | | | | Pereira, Manuel -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; South Carolina -- Fiction; Biographical fiction | 2003-11-01 |
La tentation de Saint Antoine | Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880 | fr | | | | Anthony, of Egypt, Saint, ca. 250-355 or 6 -- Fiction; Biographical fiction; Christian fiction; Christian saints -- Fiction; Egypt -- Fiction | 2004-02-01 |
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 | en | | Biographical sketch -- Baa, Baa, Black Sheep -- Wee Willie Winkie -- The dove of Dacca -- The smoke upon your altar dies -- Recessional -- L'envoi -- The sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo -- Fuzzy-Wuzzy -- The English flag -- The king -- To the unknown goddess -- The galley slave -- The ship that found herself -- A trip across a continent -- The Children of the Zodiac -- The bridge builders -- The miracles -- Our Lady of the Snows -- The song of the women -- The White Man's burden. | | Short stories; Poetry | 2009-11-30 |
The Boy Crusaders
A Story of the Days of Louis IX. | Edgar, John G. (John George), 1834-1864 | en | | | | Louis IX, King of France, 1214-1270 -- Juvenile fiction; Crusades -- Juvenile fiction; France -- Kings and rulers -- Juvenile fiction; Europe -- History -- Juvenile fiction; Church history -- Juvenile fiction; Biographical fiction | 2008-09-19 |
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III | | en | | Excerpts from Boswell's "Life of Johnson"
A Poet Defined, from the Preface to "Lyrical Ballads" by Wordsworth
The Arrival of the Master of Ravenswood, from "The Bride of Lammermoor" by Scott
The Death of Meg Merriles, from "Guy Mannering" by Scott
A Vision of Rob Roy, from "Rob Roy" by Scott
Queen Elizabeth and Amy Robsart at Kenilworth, from "Kenilworth" by Scott
The Illness and Death of Lady Scott, from Scott's "Journal"
Does Fortune Favor Fools?, from "A Sailor's Fortune" by Coleridge
The Destiny of the United States, from the "Table Talk" by Coleridge
Nelson's Death at Trafalgar, from the "Life of Nelson" by Southey
The Death of Hofer, by Landor
Napoleon and Pericles, by Landor
Dream Children—A Reverie; Poor Relations; The Origin of Roast Pig; That We Should Rise with the Lark, from the "Essays of Elia" by Lamb
Hamlet, from the "Characters of Shakespeare's Plays" by Hazlitt
Dreams of an Opium-Eater, from the "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" by de Quincey
Joan of Arc, from the "Biographical and Historical Essays" by de Quincey
Charles Lamb, from the "Literary Reminiscences" by de Quincey
Of His Mother's Treatment of Him, letter by Lord Byron
To His Wife after the Separation, letter by Lord Byron
To Sir Walter Scott, letter by Lord Byron
Of Art and Nature as Poetical Subjects, from the "Reply to Bowles" by Lord Byron
In Defense of Poetry, by Shelley
The Baths of Caracalla, from letter by Shelley
The ruins of Pompeii, from letter by Shelley
The Mutilation of the Hermæ; If Alexander Had Lived, from the "History of Greece" by Grote
Charlotte Corday, from the "History of the French Revolution" by Carlyle
The Blessedness of Work, from "Past and Present" by Carlyle
Cromwell, from "Heroes and Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History" by Carlyle
In Praise of Those Who Toil, from "Sart | | | 2007-07-30 |