| Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories
Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset | Benson, Arthur Christopher, 1862-1925 | en | | Paul the minstrel -- The Isles of Sunset -- The waving of the sword -- Renatus -- The Slype House -- Out of the sea -- The troth of the sword -- The Hill of Trouble -- The gray cat -- The Red Camp -- The light of the body -- The snake, the leper, and the grey frost -- Brother Robert -- The closed window -- The brothers -- The Temple of Death -- The tomb of Heiri -- Cerda -- Linus. | | | 2007-05-19 |
| Ways of Nature | Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 | en | | Ways of nature -- Bird-songs -- Nature with closed doors -- The wit of a duck -- Factors in animal life -- Animal communication -- Devious paths -- What do animals know? -- Do animals think and reflect? -- A pinch of salt -- The literary treatment of nature -- A beaver's reason -- Reading the book of nature -- Gathered by the way. | | Natural history -- Outdoor books; Animal behavior; Animal intelligence | 2009-10-13 |
| 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 |