Single Author Collections
A Child's Garden of Verses
Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child's Garden of Verses is one of the most popular and loved collections of children’s verse of the 19th century…
The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories
These are three stories that will delight your heart and soul. The little girl Ruth in the first story is very privileged young lady with …
The Countess of Lowndes Square
A collection of fourteen short stories, grouped under the headings of "Blackmailing Stories", "Spook Stories", "Cat…
Precepts in Practice
Fifteen short stories that are full of morals and wisdom, warmth and comfort, charm and wit—all inspired by the book of Proverbs. Each of th…
Whilomville Stories
This collection consists of thirteen stories. The stories are set in the mythical town of Whilomville used by Stephen Crane for many of his …
Æsop in Rhyme
Jefferys Taylor was born in 1792 in Suffolk, England. He became apprenticed to his father who was an engraver and invented a special ruling …
The Gardener and The Burden
Helen Turrell’s life has been one of respectability and duty, and she adopts and raises her illegitimate nephew upon her scapegrace brother’…
The White Wolf
This lively collection of stories by Q, aka the imaginative and prolific man of letters Arthur Quiller-Couch, includes tales of mystery, hor…
Italian Life and Legends
A mix of short works written by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie during her residence in Florence from 1864-65, this collection was edited and prepa…
Sun and Saddle Leather
Cowboy Poetry began as a 19th Century Performance Art staged around a crackling campfire, referencing tall tales and personal stories, lost …
The Principles of the Christian Religion
The little verses now before the reader were written at the desire of my most worthy and honoured friend, the Reverend Mr. Clark of St. Alba…
The Lady of the Barge
Another collection of short stories, a mixture of the humorous and the horrifying all with unexpected twists - Summary by Inkell
The Spell of the Yukon
Known as the Bard of the Yukon and as a people's poet, Robert Service immortalized his experience with the Yukon and its gold rush and this …
Sunbeams
George W. Peck was at times a writer, newspaper publisher and politician. Many of the Sunbeam essays had been published in Peck's paper, &qu…
The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens
A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923.These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (Others, Rogue, The Soil…
The House of Dust
The House of Dust is a poem written in the four-movement format of a classical symphony. Hauntingly beautiful despite its bleak post-World …
Enough Rope
A collection of poems by Dorothy Parker that previously appeared in Life, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The New York World. Included here…
The Man from Snowy River
A collection of poems by Australian poet Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson, picturesque glimpses into life in the Bush. From the preface: "…
April Twilights
A selection of thirty-six poems by American writer Willa Cather. (summary by mleigh)
Over Here and Over There
In publishing this book I have no intention whatsoever to offer a work of great literary value. As such it would undoubtedly be a failure, …