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A mistaken identity. The true history of the hare and the tortoise. Alone the immortals
In Fifty-one Tales (version 2)
A multitude of very short stories populated with things that lurk in the dark corners of human imagination. Wonderfully crafted and sometime…
Old Times in the Colonies: No. III - Isaac Bradley and Joseph Whittaker
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 40, August 3, 1880
Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, po…
Fore-Armed
In Dreamland and Ghostland
This collection of accounts and short stories of a ghostly nature was originally published in 3 volumes. The subtitle of this compilation ni…
Westward Ho
In Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
John Avery Lomax is a towering figure in the field of early American musicology and folklore. Through intensive field work, Lomax built up …
Famous and Ancient Cannon
In The Royal Regiment, and Other Novelettes
James Grant was a prolific Scottish writer of novels and "novelettes", particularly centered around military life. Included with t…
The History Lesson by Anonymous
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 1)
The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…
History of the World War: Ch. 3 and 4
In First World War Centenary Prose Collection Vol. I
This collection of non-fiction and fiction, with its companion poetry collection, commemorates the outbreak of the First World War on 28th J…
Selected excerpts
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 04
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
A Great Kingdom in the Congo
In The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children
From the preface of the book: "To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored c…
A Touch of Civilization, by Miriam Michelson
In The Black Cat Vol. 03 No. 03 December 1897
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
The Second Book
In The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems
Generally considered to be the first book written in English (rather than Latin, French or Italian), Chaucer's magnum opus is a collection o…
The Man from Time
In Short Science Fiction Collection 068
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
Erzählungen 86 - 90 (Der kleine Korbflechter - Der Fischer und der kleine Fischdieb - Der Gärtner und sein Esel - Der Jäger und sein Hund - Der Müller und sein Sohn)
In Kurze Erzählungen
Ein Lehr- und Lesebuch für die deutschen Schulen in Bayern; so lautet der Untertitel des von Christoph von Schmid verfassten Buches. Hi…
Introduction
In Romance of California Life; Illustrated By Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic And Humorous
These 37 short stories were authored by John Habberton (1842–1921), an American writer. He spent nearly twenty years as the literary and dr…
Chapter III: The Historians. Part 1
In Victorian Literature
Victorian Literature by Clement Shorter is a brief work that gives a good introduction to many of the important writers, historians, and cri…
France Part II: Stories of the Hundred Years' War: Historical note
In The World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal
This is the fifth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…
The Exile of Time by Ray Cummings, chapter 15
In Astounding Stories 18, June 1931
This issue containsThe Man from 2072 by Sewell Peaslee Wright ~ Out of the Flow of Time there appears to Commander John Hanson a Man of Myst…
03 - Scrammy 'and
In Bush Studies
Bush Studies is a short story collection published in London in 1902. Baynton presents a grimly realist view of bush life in Australia for w…
04 - Section 04
In Irish Idylls
Irish Idylls is a collection of short stories about Irish peasantry during the 19th Century. Ms Jane Barlow, an Irish lass, having, unbeliev…
The Mythical Origin of History, from The History of Civilization in England
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 06
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…