title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn | | | Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Runaway children -- Fiction; Male friendship -- Fiction; Fugitive slaves -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; Boys -- Fiction; Mississippi River -- Fiction; Missouri -- Fiction; Adventure stories; Humorous stories; Bildungsromans | 2004-06-29 |
The Pirate Slaver
A Story of the West African Coast | Collingwood, Harry, 1851-1922 | en | | | Overend, William Heysham, 1851-1898 [Illustrator] | Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction; Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Pirates -- Juvenile fiction; Sailors -- Juvenile fiction; Seafaring life -- Juvenile fiction; Slaves -- Juvenile fiction; Voyages and travels -- Juvenile fiction; Africa, West -- Juvenile fiction | 2007-11-15 |
Frederick Douglass
A Biography | Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932 | en | | | | Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895; African American abolitionists -- Biography; Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography; Slaves -- United States -- Biography; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century | 2004-02-01 |
Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace | Hauff, Wilhelm, 1802-1827 | en | | Pt. 1. Tales of the caravan: The caravan. The caliph stork. The amputated hand. The rescue of Fatima. Little Muck. The false prince -- Pt. 2. Tales of the inn: The inn in the Spessart. The hirsch-gulden. The marble heart (first part). Said's adventures. The cave of Steenfoll. The marble heart (second part) -- Pt. 3. Tales of the palace: The sheik's palace and his slaves. The dwarf Nosey. Abner, the Jew. The young Englishman. The story of Almansor. | Stowell, Edward L. [Translator] | | 2010-04-24 |
Behind the Scenes
or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House | Keckley, Elizabeth, 1818-1907 | en | | | | Slavery -- United States; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882; Keckley, Elizabeth, ca. 1818-1907; Women slaves -- United States -- Biography; African American women -- Biography | 2008-03-31 |
Worldly Ways and Byways | Gregory, Eliot, 1854-1915 | en | | Charm -- The moth and the star -- Contrasted travelling -- The outer and the inner woman -- On some gilded misalliances -- The complacency of mediocrity -- The discontent of talent -- Slouch -- Social suggestion -- Bohemia -- Social exiles -- "Seven Ages" of furniture -- Our elite and public life -- The small summer hotel -- A false start -- A holy land -- Royalty at play -- A rock ahead -- The Grand Prix -- "The treadmill" -- "Like master like man" -- An English invasion of the Riviera -- A common weakness -- Changing Paris -- Contentment -- The climber -- The last of the dandies -- A nation on the wing -- Husks -- The Faubourg St. Germain -- Men's manners -- An ideal hostess -- The introducer -- A question and an answer -- Living on Your friends -- American society in Italy -- The Newport of the past -- A conquest of Europe -- A race of slaves -- Introspection. | | Sociology; American essays -- 19th century | 1995-12-01 |