title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties | | en | | | Terry, Richard Runciman, 1865-1938 [Editor] | | 2007-03-08 |
False Friends, and The Sailor's Resolve | Unknown | en | | | | | 2004-12-31 |
An Old Sailor's Yarns | Ames, N. (Nathaniel), 1796-1835 | en | | Mary Bowline -- Old Cuff -- Rivals -- Morton -- Pirate of Masafuero. | | | 2009-07-05 |
Jack Mason, the Old Sailor | Woodworth, Francis C. (Francis Channing), 1812-1859 | en | | | | | 2004-02-01 |
John Corwell, Sailor And Miner; and, Poisonous Fish
1901 | Becke, Louis, 1855-1913 | en | | | | Short stories; Sea stories; Adventure stories, Australian; Pacific Area -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2008-01-28 |
"Pig-Headed" Sailor Men
From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other
Stories" - 1902 | Becke, Louis, 1855-1913 | en | | | | Short stories; Oceania -- Fiction | 2008-03-29 |
A Collection of Stories | London, Jack, 1876-1916 | en | | The Human Drift -- Small-Boat Sailing -- Four Horses and a Sailor -- Nothing that Ever Came to Anything -- That Dead Men Rise up Never -- A Classic of the Sea -- A Wicked Woman (Curtain Raiser) -- The Birth Mark (Sketch) | | | 1999-03-01 |
The Sailor's Word-Book
An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. | Smyth, W. H. (William Henry), 1788-1865 | en | | | Belcher, Edward, Sir, 1799-1877 [Editor] | Military art and science -- Dictionaries; Naval art and science -- Dictionaries | 2008-07-07 |
Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life | Knights, Arthur E. | en | | | | Knights, Arthur E.; Seafaring life; Sailors -- England -- Biography | 2003-11-01 |
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 |
A Sailor's Lass | Leslie, Emma | en | | | | Fishers -- Juvenile fiction; Foundlings -- Juvenile fiction; Christian life -- Juvenile fiction | 2007-06-10 |
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 |
Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales | Cory, Charles B. (Charles Barney), 1857-1921 | en | | Montezuma's castle -- The amateur championship -- The tragedy of the White Tanks -- Too close for comfort -- The strange powder of the Jou Jou priests -- An Aztec mummy -- A lesson in chemistry -- An interesting ghost -- The mound of eternal silence -- The story of a bad Indian -- A queer coincidence -- The story of an insane sailor -- The elixir of life -- The Voodoo idol -- An Arizona episode -- One touch of nature. | | | 2008-10-22 |
Great Sea Stories | Various | en | | Spanish Bloodhounds and English Mastiffs, By Kingsley -- The Club-Hauling of the Diomede, By Marryat -- The Cruise of the Torch, By Scott -- The Merchantman and the Pirate, By Reade -- The Mutiny of the Bounty, By Anonymous -- The Wreck of the Royal Caroline, By Cooper -- The Capture of the Great White Whale, By Melville -- The Corvette Claymore, By Hugo -- The Merchants' Cup, By Bone -- A Storm and a Rescue, By Russell -- The Sailor's Wife, By Loti -- The Salving of the Yan-Shan, By Stackpoole -- The Derelict Neptune, By Robertson -- The Terrible Solomons, By London -- El Dorado, By Masefield. | French, Joseph Lewis, 1858-1936 [Editor] | | 2006-05-16 |
A Sailor of King George | Hoffman, Frederick, Captain | en | | | | Hoffman, Frederick, Captain -- Diaries; Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century -- Sources; Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 18th century -- Sources | 2008-12-13 |
Ballads of Peace in War | Earls, Michael, 1873-1937 | en | | His light -- The countersign -- A hill o' lights -- Off to the war -- The towers of Holy Cross -- Always Maytime -- The storyteller -- My father's tunes -- A song -- A ballad of France -- To one in success -- The lifelong war -- Linden Lane -- The boundaries of a house -- Attainment -- The philosophers -- Preparedness ( The Drummer Boy -- The Sailor) -- War in the North -- The happy time -- The time of truce -- Bethlehem -- A Vow-Day flower -- The tree in the tenement yard -- Old Hudson rovers -- A winter minster -- The dark little rose -- The monk Maelanfaid -- The young adventurers -- The fountain of youth -- The Bonnie Prince O'Spring -- On a train -- The Columbine -- Two Seanichies -- The Green brigade -- Alleluia Height. | | | 2002-07-01 |
Autumn Leaves
Original Pieces in Prose and Verse | | en | Images of the original pages are available through the Wright American Fiction Project of the Library Electronic Text Service of Indiana University. http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2/ | Christmas Revived -- In the Churchyard at Cambridge. A Legend of Lady Lee -- The Little South-wind -- Lines Written at the Close of Dr. Holme's Lectures on English Poetry -- Aunt Molly. A Reminiscence of Old Cambridge -- The Sounds of Morning in Cambridge -- The Sounds of Evening in Cambridge -- To the Near-sighted -- Flower's from a Student's Walks -- Miseries. No. 1 -- Miseries. No. 2 A Dark Night -- Miseries. No. 3 Twine -- Miseries. No. 4 Fresh Air -- Farewell -- Innocent Surprises -- The Old Sailor -- Laughter -- To Stephen -- The Old Church -- "Something than Beauty Dearer" -- A Tale Found in the Repositories of the Abbots of the Middle Ages -- The Sea -- Fashion -- A Growl -- To Jenny Lind -- My Herbarium -- The Ostrich -- Cows -- The Home-beacon -- The Fourth of July -- From the Papers of Reginald Ratcliffe, Esq. | Abbot, Anne Wales, 1808-1908 [Editor] | | 2005-11-30 |
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 |
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 |