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By: Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) | |
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The Story of the Other Wise Man | |
The Lost Word A Christmas Legend of Long Ago |
By: Henry van Dyke (1852-1933) | |
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Blue Flower
"Sometimes short stories are brought together like parcels in a basket. Sometimes they grow together like blossoms on a bush. Then, of course, they really belong to one another, because they have the same life in them. ...There is such a thought in this book. It is the idea of the search for inward happiness, which all men who are really alive are following, along what various paths, and with what different fortunes! Glimpses of this idea, traces of this search, I thought that I could see in certain tales that were in my mind,—tales of times old and new, of lands near and far away... | |
By: Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) | |
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Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things | |
The Unruly Sprite A Partial Fairy Tale |
By: Henry W. Lucy (1845-1924) | |
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Faces and Places
Faces and Places is a collection of articles on nineteenth century travel, events and personalities by the British journalist Henry Lucy, who wrote for the Daily News, a London newspaper. His open letter To Those About to Become Journalists rings as true today as when it was written.The first article, “Fred” Burnaby, includes a lively account of a balloon trip, while Night and Day on the Cars in Canada and Easter on Les Avants relate Lucy’s experiences of rail travel at that time. Other travel tales (A Night on a Mountain, Mosquitoes and Monaco, and Oysters and Arcachon) provide an insight into the Victorian Englishman’s attitude to Europe... |
By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) | |
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The Children's Longfellow Told in Prose |
By: Henry Wallace Phillips (1869-1930) | |
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The Mascot of Sweet Briar Gulch |
By: Henry Wood (1814-1887) | |
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Elster's Folly A Novel |
By: Henry [Editor] Altemus | |
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The History of Tom Thumb to which are added the stories of the Cat and the Mouse and Fire! Fire! Burn stick! |
By: Herbert D. Kastle | |
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The First One |
By: Herbert George Jenkins (1876-1923) | |
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Malcolm Sage, detective
A collection of short stories that chronicles the first year of the Malcolm Sage Detective Bureau. | |
John Dene of Toronto; a Comedy of Whitehall
John Dene comes to England with a great invention, and the intention of gingering-up the Admiralty. His directness and unconventional methods bewilder and embarrass the officials at Whitehall, where, according to him, most of the jobs are held by those "whose great-grandfathers had a pleasant way of saying how-do-you-do to a prince." Suddenly John Dene disappears, and the whole civilised world is amazed at an offer of £20,000 for news of him. Scotland Yard is disorganised by tons of letters and thousands of callers... |
By: Herbert Hayens | |
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At the Point of the Sword |
By: Herbert Jenkins (1876-1923) | |
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Patricia Brent, spinster
A romantic comedy, written in 1918, but with a modern feel to it. Patricia Brent one day overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because she “never has a nice young man to take her out”. In a thoughtless moment of anger she announces that the following night she will be dining out with her fiance. When she arrives at the restaurant the next day, she finds some of the fellow-boarders there to watch her, so, rendered reckless by the thought of the humiliation of being found out, she goes up to a young man sitting alone at a table, and asks him to help her by “playing up”. Countless complications and adventures ensue… |
By: Herbert Joseph Moorhouse (1882-) | |
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Every Man for Himself |
By: Herbert M. (Herbert Müller) Hopkins (1870-1910) | |
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The Mayor of Warwick |
By: Herbert Quick (1861-1925) | |
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Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain | |
Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic |
By: Herbert Strang | |
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In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India |
By: Herman Gastrell Seely | |
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A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life |
By: Herman Melville (1819-1891) | |
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Moby Dick
“Call me Ishmael” is one of the most famous opening lines in American literature. With these words, opens one of the strangest and most gripping stories ever written about the sea and sea-faring. Moby Dick by Herman Melville is today considered one of the greatest novels written in America but paradoxically, it was a miserable failure when it first made its debut in 1851. Entitled Moby Dick or The Whale the book finally got its due after the author's death and is now regarded as a classic portrayal of mania and fatal obsession... | |
Typee
A whaling ship stops at a remote Polynesian island. The crew aboard is exhausted after a grueling six-month voyage in which they suffered ill-treatment and drudgery. Two men decide to abandon ship and hide on the island, living off the fruit of the land, until they can get on board a more conducive ship. However, to their consternation they discover that part of the island paradise is peopled by a savage and cannibalistic tribe called the Typees. As destiny would have it, they fall into the hands of the very people they dread... | |
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on April 1, 1857 (presumably the exact day of the novel's setting), The Confidence-Man was Melville's tenth major work in eleven years. The novel portrays a Canterbury Tales-style group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. The novel is written as cultural satire, allegory, and metaphysical treatise, dealing with themes of sincerity, identity, morality, religiosity, economic materialism, irony, and cynicism... | |
White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War
This is a tale based on Melville's experiences aboard the USS United States from 1843 to 1844. It comments on the harsh and brutal realities of service in the US Navy at that time, but beyond this the narrator has created for the reader graphic symbols for class distinction, segregation and slavery aboard this microcosm of the world, the USS Neversink. (Introduction by James K. White) | |
The Encantadas, Or Enchanted Isles
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists of ten philosophical "Sketches" on the Encantadas, or Galápagos Islands. It was collected in The Piazza Tales in 1856. The Encantadas was to become the most critically successful of that collection. All of the stories are replete with symbolism reinforcing the cruelty of life on the Encantadas. (Introduction excerpted from Wikipedia) | |
I and My Chimney |
By: Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) | |
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Siddhartha
Once regarded as a cult book in the 1960s by the Flower Power generation, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse remains even today a simple and fresh tale of a man's spiritual quest. Penned by a deeply spiritual German author, Siddhartha explores multiple themes of enlightenment, thinking beyond set rules, love and humanity. Siddhartha is a young contemporary of the spiritual master Gautam Buddha who lived in India at some time during the 4th century BC. The story has striking parallels to Buddha's own life story in which he abandons his wealth and status as the young prince of Kapilavastu, his wife and young son and his family to embark on a voyage of self discovery... |
By: Hermann Sudermann (1857-1928) | |
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The Wish A Novel |
By: Hesba Stretton (1832-1911) | |
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Cobwebs and Cables | |
Little Meg's Children
This is the touching and endearing story of Little Meg and her trials and difficulties as she does her best to look after 'her children' after their mother dies. Father is away at sea and is expected every day, but when father's ship comes in he is not aboard! With the help of her new friend and neighbour Kitty, she finds out that he was 'took bad' on the other side of the world, who knows when or if he will ever make it back. Meanwhile, Little Meg must take care of Robby and baby. There are better days and worse days... |
By: Heywood Broun (1888-1939) | |
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Seeing Things at Night
This Book is a collection of humorous short stories which describe the comedy in everyday things and situations. | |
Pieces of Hate and other Enthusiasms
This book is a collection of humorous short stories about ordinary instances in daily life. We learn many interesting things about life, such as how to court women successfully, what it feels like to be a god, and why sometimes it would be a good idea to exchange one's own newborn baby for a better one at the hospital. |
By: Hilaire Belloc | |
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On Something
“Now that story is a symbol, and tells the truth. We see some one thing in this world, and suddenly it becomes particular and sacramental; a woman and a child, a man at evening, a troop of soldiers; we hear notes of music, we smell the smell that went with a passed time, or we discover after the long night a shaft of light upon the tops of the hills at morning: there is a resurrection, and we are refreshed and renewed.” – Hilaire Belloc | |
On Nothing & Kindred Subjects
“I knew a man once, Maurice, who was at Oxford for three years, and after that went down with no degree. At College, while his friends were seeking for Truth in funny brown German Philosophies, Sham Religions, stinking bottles and identical equations, he was lying on his back in Eynsham meadows thinking of Nothing, and got the Truth by this parallel road of his much more quickly than did they by theirs; for the asses are still seeking, mildly disputing, and, in a cultivated manner, following the... | |
Cautionary Tales for Children | |
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts | |
More Beasts (For Worse Children) | |
More Peers : Verses |
By: Hilda Conkling (1910-1986) | |
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Poems By a Little Girl |
By: Hilda T. Skae | |
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The Adventure League | |
Stories from English History |
By: Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (1848-1895) | |
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Boyhood in Norway Stories of Boy-Life in the Land of the Midnight Sun | |
Tales from Two Hemispheres |