| title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
| The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors | Paine, Ralph Delahaye, 1871-1925 | en | Chronicles of America series; v. 36 | | | | 2002-02-01 |
| Six Years in the Prisons of England | Anonymous, A Merchant - | en | | | Henderson, Frank [Editor] | | 2007-05-04 |
| The Merchant of Berlin
An Historical Novel | Mühlbach, L. (Luise), 1814-1873 | en | | | | | 2004-04-01 |
| American Merchant Ships and Sailors | Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John), 1863-1934 | en | | | | | 2005-04-18 |
| Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader
A Tale of the Pacific | Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894 | en | | | | Ship captains -- Fiction; Merchant ships -- Fiction; Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction | 2005-04-23 |
| Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House
of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly
known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son,
Pierrepont, facetiously kn | Lorimer, George Horace, 1869-1937 | en | | | | Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Merchants -- Fiction; Epistolary fiction; Men -- Conduct of life -- Fiction; Social ethics -- Fiction; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction; Didactic fiction | 2007-06-28 |
| Newton Forster
The Merchant Service | Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848 | en | | | | East India Company -- Fiction; Merchant mariners -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century -- Fiction; Historical fiction; Sea stories; Romantic suspense novels | 2007-05-21 |
| Newton Forster | Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848 | en | | | | East India Company -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century -- Fiction; Historical fiction; Merchant mariners -- Fiction; Romantic suspense novels; Sea stories | 2004-07-20 |
| Shakespeare's play of the Merchant of Venice
Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre, with Historical and Explanatory Notes by Charles Kean, F.S.A. | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 | en | | | Kean, Charles John, 1811?-1868 [Editor] | Comedies; Jews -- Italy -- Drama; Moneylenders -- Drama; Venice (Italy) -- Drama | 2004-06-01 |
| Lord Jim | Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 | en | | | | Merchant marine -- Officers -- Fiction; British -- Indonesia -- Fiction; Cowardice -- Fiction; Atonement -- Fiction; Indonesia -- Fiction; Psychological fiction | 2006-01-09 |
| The Arabian Nights Entertainments | Anonymous | en | | The sultan and his vow -- The story of the merchant and the genie -- The three calenders, sons of kings, and the five ladies of Bagdad -- The story of the three sisters -- The story of Aladdin; or, the wonderful lamp -- The history of Ali Baba, and of the forty robbers killed by one slave -- The story of Sinbad the sailor. | Winter, Milo, 1886-1956 [Illustrator] | Fairy tales; Folklore -- Arab countries | 2006-11-18 |
| 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 |
| The Children's Portion | Various | en | | The Golden Age -- The Merchant of Venice -- The Afflicted Prince -- "His Ludship" -- Pious Constance -- The Doctor's Revenge -- The Woodcutter's Child -- Show Your Colors -- Her Danger Signal -- A Knight's Dilemma -- "His Royal Highness" -- Patient Griselda -- Let It Alone -- The Man Who Lost His Memory -- The Story of a Wedge -- Prince Edwin and His Page -- Cissy's Amendment -- The Winter's Tale -- A Gracious Deed -- "Tom" -- Steven Lawrence, American | Shoppell, Robert W. [Editor] | | 2006-04-10 |
| Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare | Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924 | en | | Preface -- A brief life of Shakespeare -- A midsummer night's dream -- The tempest -- As you like it -- The winter's tale -- King Lear -- Twelfth night -- Much ado about nothing -- Romeo and Juliet -- Pericles -- Hamlet -- Cymbeline -- Macbeth -- The comedy of errors -- The merchant of Venice -- Timon of Athens -- Othello -- The taming of the shrew -- Measure for measure -- Two gentlemen of Verona -- All's well that ends well -- Pronouncing vocabulary of names -- Quotations from Shakespeare. | | | 1998-08-01 |
| Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers | | en | | Jalaladdeen of Bagdad -- The Story of Haschem -- The Pantofles -- Story of the Prince and the Lions -- The City of the Demons -- Jussuf, the Merchant of Balsora -- The Seven Sleepers -- The Enchanters; or, Misnar, the Sultan of India -- Sadik Beg -- Halechalbe and the Unknown Lady -- The Four Talismans -- The Story of Bohetzad; or, the Lost Child -- Urad; or, The Fair Wanderer -- Alischar and Smaragdine. | Valentine, L. (Laura), -1899 [Editor] | Orient -- Fiction; Children's stories; Asia -- Fiction; Tales -- Asia | 2008-08-19 |
| The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes | | en | | Feodor Jagor's Travels in the Philippines (the out-of-print 1875 English translation corrected from the original German text) -- The state of the Philippines in 1810, by Tomas de Comyn (William Walton's 1821 translation modernized) -- Manila and Sulu in 1842, by Com. Chas. Wilkes (Narrative of U.S. exploring expedition 1838-42, v. 5) -- Manila in 1819, by Lieut. John White (from the "History of a voyage to the China Sea") -- The peopling of the Philippines, by Doctor Rudolf Virchow (O. T. Mason's translation; Smithsonian institution 1899 report) -- People and prospects of the Philippines, by an English merchant, 1778, and a consul, 1878 (from Blackwood's and the Cornhill magazine) -- Filipino merchants of the early 1890s, by F. Karuth. | Craig, Austin, 1872- [Editor] | | 2004-01-01 |
| Told in the Coffee House
Turkish Tales | | en | | How the Hodja saved Allah -- Better is the folly of woman than the wisdom of man -- The Hanoum and the unjust Cadi -- What happended to Hadji, a merchant of the Bezestan -- How the junkman travelled to find treasure in his own yard -- How Chapkin Halid became chief detective -- How cobbler Ahmet became the chief astrologer -- The wise son of Ali Pasha -- The merciful Khan -- King Kara-Kush of Bithynia -- The prayer rug and the dishonest steward -- The goose, the eye, the daughter and the arm -- The forty wise men -- How the priest knew that it would snow -- Who was the thirteenth son? -- Paradise sold by the yard -- Jew turned Turk -- The metamorphosis -- The Calif Omar -- Kalaidji Avram of Balata -- How Mehmet Ali Pasha of Egypt administered justice -- How the farmer learned to cure his wife, a Turkish Aesop -- The language of birds -- The swallow's advice -- We know not what the dawn may bring forth -- Old men made young -- The bribe -- How the Devil lost his wager -- The effects of Raki. | | Tales -- Turkey; Folklore -- Turkey | 2009-12-02 |
| Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy
A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. | Anonymous | en | | Adventures of Capt. Woodward and Five Seamen in the island of Celebes -- An Occurrence at sea -- Loss of H. B. M ship Phœnix, off Cuba -- An account of the Whale Fishery, with anecdotes of the dangers attending it -- Loss of the Brig Tyrrel -- Loss of the Peggy -- Loss of H. B. M. ship Litchfield -- Wreck of the Rothsay Castle Steamer -- Loss of the French ship Droits de L'Homme -- Loss of H. B. M. ship Queen Charlotte -- A Scene on the Atlantic Ocean -- Wreck of the French Frigate Medusa, on the Arguin Bank -- Loss of the Royal George -- Loss of the Æneas, transport -- The Absent Ship -- Loss of the Halsewell, East Indiaman -- An account of Four Russians, abandoned on the Island of East Spitzbergen -- Loss of the Amphitrite, Female Convict Ship -- The Mutineers, a Tale of the Sea -- Fate of Seven Sailors, left on the island of St. Maurice -- Seamen wintering in Spitzbergen -- A Man Overboard -- An Escape through the Cabin-Windows -- Tom Cringle's Log -- Loss of the Nautilus, Sloop of War -- Wreck of a Slave Ship -- The Wrecked Seamen -- Adventures of Philip Ashton -- Explosion of H. B. M. ship Amphion -- Loss of H. B. M. ship La Tribune -- Burning of the Prince, a French East Indiaman -- Wreck of the Schooner Betsey -- Early American Heroism -- Fingal's Cave -- Loss of H. B. M. ship Ramillies -- Preservation of Nine Seamen -- Capt. Ross's Expedition -- Loss of the Catharine, Venus, and Piedmont, transports, and three Merchant Ships -- Wreck of the Ship Sidney -- Loss of the Duke William, transport -- Commodore Barney -- Naval Battles of the United States -- Address to the Ocean. | | Shipwrecks; Mutiny; Pirates; Seafaring life | 2008-07-06 |
| The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) | Various | en | | Abou Ben Butler, by Paul -- At Aunty's House, by Riley -- Bill's Courtship, by Stanton -- A Bully Boat and a Brag Captain, by Smith -- A Committee from Kelly's, by Belden -- The Co-operative Housekeepers, by Flower -- The Drayman, by O'Connell -- The Dutiful Mariner, by Irwin -- Especially Men, by Chester -- Farewell, by Taylor -- The Funny Little Fellow, by Riley -- Going Up and Coming Down, by Tucker -- Have You Seen the Lady?, by Sousa -- Her "Angel" Father, by Flower -- The Itinerant Tinker, by Macauley -- It Pays to be Happy, by Masson -- Latter-Day Warnings, by Holmes -- Lectures on Astronomy, by Phoenix -- A Letter from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, by Lorimer -- The Marriage of Sir John Smith, by Cary -- Melinda's Humorous Story, by McHenry -- Miss Legion, by Taylor -- The Mosquito, by Bryant -- Mr. Dooley on Expert Testimony, by Dunne -- Mr. Hare Tries to Get a Wife, by Culbertson -- Musical Review Extraordinary, by Phoenix -- My First Cigar, by Burdette -- My Ruthers, by Riley -- A Night in a Rocking-Chair, by Field -- Old Grimes, by Greene -- A Piano in Arkansas, by Thorpe -- Quit Yo' Worryin', by Culbertson -- Rollo Learning to Play, by Burdette -- The Runaway Boy, by Riley -- The Set of China, by Leslie -- Simon Starts in the World, by Hooper -- The Spring Beauties, by Cone -- The Strike of One, by Flower -- Suppressed Chapters, by Wells -- Tiddle-Iddle-Iddle-Iddle-Bum! Bum!, by Nesbit -- Whar Dem Sinful Apples Grow, by Culbertson -- Willy and the Lady, by Burgess -- The Woman Who Married an Owl, by Culbertson. | Wilder, Marshall Pinckney, 1859-1915 [Editor] | American wit and humor; American literature -- Humor | 2006-09-18 |
| The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) | Various | en | | Abou Ben Butler, by Paul -- The Advertiser, by Field -- After the Funeral, by Bailey -- The Apostasy of William Dodge, by Waterloo -- The Ballad of Grizzly Gulch, by Irwin -- Banty Tim, by Hay -- The Bear Story, by Riley -- The Book-Canvasser, by Anonymous -- A Bully Boat and a Brag Captain, by Smith -- The Bumblebeaver, by Cox -- Casey at the Bat, by Thayer -- Chad's Story of the Goose, by Smith -- Colonel Carter's Story of the Postmaster, by Smith -- Comic Miseries, by Saxe -- The Coquette, by Saxe -- De Gradual Commence, by Amsbary -- Evening, by Holmes -- The Fairport Art Museum, by Thanet -- The Famous Mulligan Ball, by Stanton -- The Genial Idiot Discusses the Music Cure, by Bangs -- Grains of Truth, by Nye -- Her Valentine, by Hovey -- It Pays to be Happy, by Masson -- James and Reginald, by Field -- Jones, by Osbourne -- Latter-Day Warnings, by Holmes -- Lost Chords, by Field -- Love Sonnets of an Office Boy, by Kiser -- The Martyrdom of Mr. Stevens, by Quick -- The Merchant and the Book-Agent, by Anonymous -- The Modern Farmer, by Appleton -- The Mosquito, by Bryant -- Mr. Dooley on the Game of Football, by Dunne -- My First Cigar, by Burdette -- My Philosofy, by Riley -- The Octopussycat, by Cox -- The Old Settler, by Mott -- The Owl-Critic, by Fields -- The Paintermine, by Cox -- Shonny Schwartz, by Adams -- The Society Upon the Stanislaus, by Harte -- So Wags the World, by Warner -- A Spring Feeling, by Carman -- The Talking Horse, by McIntyre -- The Thompson Street Poker Club, by Carleton -- Thoughts fer the Discuraged Farmer, by Riley -- "Tiddle-iddle-iddle-iddle-bum! bum!", by Nesbit -- Unconscious Humor, by Wetherell -- Up and Down Old Brandywine, by Riley -- Verre Definite, by Amsbary -- Wasted Opportunities, by Greene -- The Weddin', by Hartswick -- The Welsh Rabbittern, by Cox -- When the Allegash Drive Goes Through, by Day -- The Wild Boarder, by Cox. | Wilder, Marshall Pinckney, 1859-1915 [Editor] | American wit and humor; American literature -- Humor | 2006-09-18 |