title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Men, Women, and Ghosts | Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911 | en | | No news -- The tenth of January -- Night-watches -- The day of my death -- "Little Tommy Tucker" -- One of the elect -- What was the matter? -- In the Gray Goth -- Calico -- Kentucky's ghost. | | United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Ghost stories, American | 2004-01-01 |
The Burial of the Guns | Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922 | en | | My Cousin Fanny -- The Burial of the Guns -- The Gray Jacket of "No. 4" -- Miss Dangerlie's Roses -- How the Captain Made Christmas -- Little Darby. | | Short stories; United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction | 2008-07-02 |
Crooked Trails | Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909 | en | | How the law got into the chaparral -- The blue quail of the cactus -- A sergeant of the Orphan Troop -- The spirit of Mahongui -- The essentials at Fort Adobe -- Massai's crooked trail -- Joshua Goodenough's old letter -- Cracker cowboys of Florida -- The strange days that came to Jimmie Friday -- The Soledad girls. | | Western stories; West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2005-04-01 |
India and the Indians | Elwin, Edward Fenton | en | | | | India -- Social life and customs; India | 2009-01-25 |
Western Characters
or Types of Border Life in the Western States | McConnel, John Ludlum, 1826-1862 | en | | | Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888 [Illustrator] | Frontier and pioneer life -- Mississippi River Valley; Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs | 2007-10-23 |
A Hero of Our Time | Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich, 1814-1841 | en | | | | Psychological fiction; Caucasus -- Fiction; Russia -- Social life and customs -- 1533-1917 -- Fiction; Russia -- History, Military -- 1801-1917 -- Fiction | 1997-05-01 |
Rhoda Fleming — Complete | Meredith, George, 1828-1909 | en | | | | English fiction -- 19th century; Middle class -- Fiction; Farm life -- Fiction; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction | 2004-11-03 |
Wuthering Heights | Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848 | en | | | | Love stories; Psychological fiction; Foundlings -- Fiction; Heathcliff (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction; England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Domestic fiction; Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction; Rural families -- Fiction; Rejection (Psychology) -- Fiction | 1996-12-01 |
The Children of Wilton Chase | Meade, L. T., 1854-1914 | en | | | | Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction; Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction; Family -- Juvenile fiction | 2008-08-23 |
The Last Chronicle of Barset | Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 | en | | | | England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Clergy -- England -- Fiction; Barsetshire (England: Imaginary place) -- Fiction; Clergy -- Fiction; Psychological fiction; Domestic fiction; Love stories | 2002-01-01 |
Buttered Side Down: Stories | Ferber, Edna, 1885-1968 | en | | The Frog and the Puddle -- The MAN Who Came Back -- What She Wore -- A Bush League Hero -- The Kitchen Side of the Door -- One of the Old Girls -- Maymeys from Cuba -- The Leading Lady -- That Home-Town Feeling -- The Homely Heroine -- Sun Dried -- Where the Car Turns at 18th. | | Short stories; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction | 1995-11-01 |
Earth's Enigmas
A Volume of Stories | Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir, 1860-1943 | en | | Do seek their meat from God -- The perdu -- "The young ravens that call upon him" -- Within sound of the saws -- The butt of the camp -- In the accident ward -- The romance of an ox-team -- A tragedy of the tides -- At the rough-and-tumble landing -- An experience of Jabez Batterpole -- The stone dog -- The barn on the marsh -- Captain Joe and Jamie -- Strayed -- The eye of Gluskâp. | | Manners and customs -- Fiction; Short stories | 2006-12-30 |
Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick
Gleaned from Actual Observation and Experience During a Residence
Of Seven Years in That Interesting Colony | Beavan, F. (Frederick), Mrs., 1818-1897 | en | | | | Country life -- New Brunswick -- History -- 19th century; Beavan, F. (Frederick), Mrs., 1818-1897 -- Homes and haunts -- New Brunswick; New Brunswick -- Social life and customs | 2004-06-01 |
Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection) | Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark), 1863-1943 | en | | Deserted -- Homeward bound -- Self-help -- Sentence deferred -- "Matrimonial openings" -- Odd man out -- "The toll-house" -- Peter's pence -- The head of the family -- Prize money -- Double dealing -- Keeping up appearances. | Owen, Will, 1869-1957 [Illustrator] | Humorous stories, English; England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2004-01-01 |
If, Yes and Perhaps
Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact | Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 | en | | The children of the public -- A piece of possible history -- The South American editor -- The old and the new, face to face -- The dot and line alphabet -- The last voyage of the Resolute -- My double, and how he undid me -- The man without a country -- The last of the Florida -- The skeleton in the closet -- Christmas waits in Boston. | | United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Short stories, American | 2009-03-21 |
Pretty Madcap Dorothy
Or, How She Won a Lover | Libbey, Laura Jean, 1862-1924 | en | | | | Women employees -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; Bookbinders -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918 -- Fiction | 2009-08-24 |
The Christmas Kalends of Provence
And Some Other Provençal Festivals | Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone), 1849-1913 | en | | | | Festivals -- France -- Provence; Christmas -- France -- Provence; Provence (France) -- Social life and customs | 2006-10-19 |
Odd Craft, Complete | Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark), 1863-1943 | en | | The money box -- The castaway -- Blundell's improvement -- Bill's lapse -- Lawyer Quince -- Breaking a spell -- Establishing relations -- The changing numbers -- The persecution of Bob Pretty -- Dixon's return -- A spirit of avarice -- The third string -- Odd charges -- Admiral Peters. | Owen, Will, 1869-1957 [Illustrator] | Humorous stories, English; Sailors -- Fiction; England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2004-04-01 |
Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges | Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 | en | | | Saintsbury, George, 1845-1933 [Editor] | Great Britain -- History -- Anne, 1702-1714 -- Fiction; Humorists, English; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Hanover, House of; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century | 2009-07-10 |
Cabbages and Kings | Henry, O., 1862-1910 | en | | The Proem — "Fox-in-the-Morning" — The Lotus and the Bottle — Smith — Caught — Cupid's Cupid's Exile Number Two — The Phonograph and the Graft — Money Maze — The Admiral — The Flag — Paramount — The Shamrock and the Palm — The Remnants of the Code — Shoes — Ships — Masters of Arts — Dicky — Rouge et Noir — Two Recalls — The Vitagraphoscope. | | New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Short stories | 2001-08-01 |
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 |
Town Versus Country | Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855 | en | | | | Short stories; Country life -- England -- Fiction; England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Pastoral fiction | 2007-10-02 |
The Trumpet-Major | Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 | en | | | | Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction; Merchant mariners -- Fiction; Soldiers -- Fiction; Brothers -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Regency, 1800-1837 -- Fiction; Wessex (England) -- Fiction; Historical fiction; Love stories; England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction | 2001-10-01 |
"Chinkie's Flat"
1904 | Becke, Louis, 1855-1913 | en | From: Chinkie's Flat and Other Stories. | | | Oceania -- Fiction; South Pacific Ocean -- Fiction; Pacific Area -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2008-03-11 |
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things | Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 | en | | The story of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi -- Oshidori -- The story of O-Tei -- Ubazakura -- Diplomacy -- Of a mirror and a bell -- Jikininki -- Mujina -- Rokuro-Kubi -- A dead secret -- Yuki-Onna -- The story of Aoyagi -- Jiu-Roku-Zakura -- The dream of Akinosuke -- Riki-Baka -- Hi-Mawari -- Horai -- Butterflies -- Mosquitoes -- Ants. | | Japan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Legends -- Japan | 1998-02-01 |