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By: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

The Wound Dresser by Walt Whitman The Wound Dresser

The Wound Dresser is a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington by Walt Whitman during the War of the Rebellion to The New York Times, the Brooklyn Eagle and his mother, edited by Richard Maurice Burke, M.D., one of Whitman's literary executors.

By: Walt [Illustrator] Louderback

Book cover The Boy Scouts Book of Stories

By: Walter Crane (1845-1915)

The Frog Prince and Other Stories by Walter Crane The Frog Prince and Other Stories

The three charming stories contained in The Frog Prince and Other Tales include a less-known fairy-tale called Princess Belle-Etoile besides the title story and Alladin and the Wonderful Lamp. Published in 1874, the tales are re-told by the famous illustrator Walter Crane, who has also provided some of the most lovely illustrations in the book. The book makes an ideal gift and both parents and children will certainly enjoy it. It's perfect for bedtime story-reading sessions and kids would love gazing at the beautiful Greek-style illustrations that are scattered throughout the book...

By: Walter J. Sheldon (1917-)

Book cover Houlihan's Equation
Book cover Two Plus Two Makes Crazy
Book cover This is Klon Calling

By: Walter M. Miller (1923-1996)

Book cover Death of a Spaceman
Book cover The Hoofer

By: Walter Pater (1839-1894)

Book cover Imaginary Portraits
Book cover Imaginary Portraits

By: Walter S. Tevis (1928-1984)

Book cover The Big Bounce

By: Washington Irving (1783-1859)

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

Apart from "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - the pieces which made both Irving and The Sketch Book famous - other tales include "Roscoe", "The Broken Heart", "The Art of Book-making", "A Royal Poet", "The Spectre Bridegroom", "Westminster Abbey", "Little Britain", and "John Bull". His stories were highly influenced by German folktales, with "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" being inspired by a folktale recorded by Karl Musaus. Stories range from the maudlin (such as "The Wife" and...

Book cover The Short-story

By: Wesley Barefoot

Book cover The Cuckoo Clock

By: Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865-1940)

Book cover Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers

By: Wilhelm Hauff (1802-1827)

Book cover Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace
Book cover The Severed Hand From "German Tales" Published by the American Publishers' Corporation

By: Will Lillibridge (1878-1909)

Book cover Arcadia in Avernus

Unhappy wife leaves marriage of convenience for another man, the couple running away to the Dakota prairie to set up housekeeping. All seems romantically well... until the ex shows up. Surprisingly modern (if a little theatrical) novella from the early 1900's. From the posthumous collection of Lillibridge short stories, A Breath of Prairie, 1911.

By: Will Mohler

Book cover In the Control Tower

By: Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947)

Book cover The Troll Garden and Selected Stories
Book cover Collection Of Stories, Reviews And Essays

Stories and essays by Willa Cather

By: William C. Scully (1855-1943)

Book cover Stories by English Authors: Africa

By: William Carroll

Book cover Solomon's Orbit

By: William Dean Howells

Book cover Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Told for Children

Five short delightful stories for children, told in the voice of "the papa" to "the girl" and "the boy." William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. Nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters", he was particularly known for his tenure as editor of the Atlantic Monthly as well as his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day" and the novel The Rise of Silas Lapham. (Reader’s Note for story 3: A pony engine is a small locomotive for switching cars from one track to another.)

Book cover Literature and Life (Complete)
Book cover Shapes that Haunt the Dusk
Book cover Quaint Courtships
Book cover Buying a Horse
Book cover The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse
Book cover A Pair of Patient Lovers
Book cover Standard Household-Effect Company, the (from Literature and Life)
Book cover Staccato Notes of a Vanished Summer (from Literature and Life)

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