| title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
| Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers
Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." | | en | | Thomas Hobbes -- Lord Bolingbroke -- Condorcet -- Spinoza -- Anthony Collins -- Des Cartes -- M. de Voltaire -- John Toland -- Compte de Volney -- Charles Blount -- Percy Byssche Shelley -- Claude Arian Helvetius -- Frances W. D'Arusmont -- Epicurus -- Zeno, the Stoic -- Matthew Tindal -- David Hume -- Dr. Thomas Burnet -- Thomas Paine -- Baptiste de Mirabaud -- Baron d'Holbach -- Robert Taylor -- Joseph Barker. | | | 2009-10-06 |
| Peter Pan | Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937 | en | Currently for US distribution only!
This edition of Peter Pan has been created in the United States of America from a comparison of various editions determined by age to be in the Public Domain in the United States. There are questions concerning the | | | Children's literature; Peter Pan (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Fantasy; Never-Never Land (Imaginary place) -- Fiction; Fairies -- Juvenile fiction; Pirates -- Juvenile fiction | 2008-06-25 |
| 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 |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 | Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942 | en | | A millionaire's proposal -- A substitute journalist -- Anna's love letters -- Aunt Caroline's silk dress -- Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving dinner -- By grace of Julius Caesar -- By the rule of contrary -- Fair exchange and no robbery -- Four winds -- Marcella's reward -- Margaret's patient -- Matthew insists on puffed sleeves -- Missy's room -- Ted's afternoon off -- The girl who drove the cows -- The doctor's sweetheart -- The end of the Young family feud -- The genesis of the Doughnut Club -- The growing up of Cornelia -- The Old Fellow's letter -- The parting of the ways -- The promissory note -- The revolt of Mary Isabel -- The twins and a wedding. | | | 2008-03-19 |
| Harvard Classics Volume 28
Essays English and American | | en | | Jonathan Swift by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
What is a University?; Site of a University; University Life at Athens by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
The Study of Poetry by MATTHEW ARNOLD
Sesame: of Kings' Treasuries; Lilies: of Queens' Gardens by JOHN RUSKIN
John Milton by WALTER BAGEHOT
Science and Culture by THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
Race and Language by EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN
Truth of Intercourse; Samuel Pepys by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The Poetic Principle by EDGAR ALLAN POE
Walking by HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Abraham Lincoln; Democracy by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. | Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 [Editor] | English essays; American essays | 2007-06-29 |