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Simple Susan: Barbara Visits The Abbey
In Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 3
Another wonderful compilation of stories edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie! This volume, the 3rd of 12, contains 2 main sections: Classic Tale…
Lives of the Saints
Lives of the Saints offers a rich tapestry of short biographies celebrating the lives of saints, one for each day of the year. Compiled from…
Madeleine in Church
In The Farmer's Bride (Version 2)
A powerful collection of short poems published in 1921 by the English poet Charlotte Mew (1869–1928). Lauded during her lifetime by luminari…
On a Recreant Nun - Basil the Great
In The World's Best Orations, Volume 1
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of…
The Nativity
In Poems
Poems by G. K. Chesterton is a rich collection that showcases the author's diverse poetic voice across 59 distinct works. Originally publish…
The Vision of the Pope
In The Strange Story Book (version 2)
This is the last book in the The Andrew Lang "Color" Fairy Books series published after his death by his wife. She wrote the stori…
Appendix to Volume 4
In The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 4
THE HEPTAMERON (here Volume 4 of 5), first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, a…
Marie
In Selected Poems
Thomas Parker Sanborn was an American poet from Massachusetts. In this collection of his work, published from 1883 to 1886 in The Harvard Mo…
Magdalena
In Poems
Poems by Marietta Holley, also known as Josiah Allen's Wife, presents a rich tapestry of verse that reflects the author's keen observations …
The Queen’s Marie
In A Collection of Ballads
This is a collection of ballads, edited, with an introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. The ballads range widely in style, from the historic…
Writing a Book
In Threads of Grey and Gold
This is a collection of short stories and poems by Myrtle Reed. Many of the stories are short romances, and they share the unique, nostalgic…
Therese and Germaine, part 2
In The Eight Strokes of the Clock
The Eight Strokes of the Clock is a collection of eight short stories by Maurice Leblanc. The stories have his most famous creation, Ars&egr…
Saint Elizabeth, by Anna B. Patten
In The Black Cat Vol. 03 No. 07 April 1898
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
Venus's Dove
In American Women's Literature, 1847 to 1922
American Women's Literature is a rich anthology that showcases the voices of American women writers through a diverse collection of 20 short…
The Nightingale
In At Dawn And Dusk
Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocke…
Sheila in London
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 05
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…
The Duchess at Prayer
In Crucial Instances
Crucial Instances is a captivating collection of short stories by Edith Wharton, published in 1901. In this anthology, Wharton explores the …
The Nun's Priest's Tale
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…
Quarrel, The
In Wit and Humor of America, Vol 01
This first volume of The Wit and Humor of America gathers 53 short stories and poems by 44 authors, offering a varied introduction to Americ…
From Baton Rouge
In Earlier Poems
This is a collection of the earlier poems of Julia Caroline Dorr. - Summary by Carolin