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A Stray Reveler
In An Itinerant House, and Other Stories
This is a volume of short stories of supernatural fiction by American author Emma Frances Dawson. Not all of the tales depend on ghosts, mos…
Unknown to History
During the captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots, plots, conspiracies, and intrigue engulfed the country. Catholics were apprehensive of Protest…
The Secret of Casa Grande
While visiting their friend, Florence, at her home in Mexico, Jo Ann and Peggy noticed a barred window which has no opening into any of the …
The Mystery of the Fires
Mary Louise Gay decided to spend the summer holiday in her family's cottage at Shady Nook. But an unknown arsonist has been setting the cot…
In America
In Chateau d'Or
The Chateau D'Or, or The Castle of Gold, looked gloomy and gray from the train rattling through the French countryside from Paris to Marseil…
Fables XV and XVI
In The Fables of La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine's fables were very well-known all over Europe during his life, and are now slowly being rediscovered. This edition conta…
Bone to His Bone
In The Stoneground Ghost Tales
The Stoneground Ghost Tales is a collection of nine short stories set in and around a church and parish on the edge of England's fen country…
To Authors
In Dedications
Dedications is an anthology of the forms used from the earliest days of book-making to the present time. My purpose in the following antholo…
The Magnolia
In Selected Poems
José Santos Chocano was a Peruvian poet and diplomat. These poems were originally published from 1916 to 1925 and were translated by …
Scotland Part III: To the death of Mary: Historical note
In The World’s Story Volume X: England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales
This is the tenth 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…
Mary Ambree
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…
00 - Preface and Introduction
In Angel Food: Little Talks to Little Folks
“Angel Food” consists of a series of short sermons for children on the truths of the Catholic Faith – but told with engaging stories, in a s…
Mary Magdalene. A tradition of Nain
In The Rover Vol. 01 No. 16
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
Literature
In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 085
"A regard for decency, even at the cost of success, is but the regard for one's own dignity" was novelist Joseph Conrad's take on …
The Shakespearean Problem
In The Problem Club
The Problem Club is an infamous London Club which meets once a month to discuss a given problem. The problems have nothing to do with mathem…
40 - Mary's Presentaion
In Just Stories: The Kind That Never Grow Old
Good Books are wise counselors. They point out the right way in the devious paths of life. Have we not often stood at the juncture of two ro…
Life on the "St. Mary's"
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 02, Nov. 11, 1879
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, sho…
The Girl Who Owned a Bear
In Children's Short Works, Vol. 023
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 023: a collection of 16 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
To the Unknown Goddess
In Selected Poems of Mexico
These poems were published from 1918 to 1928 and were translated by Muna Lee, Alice Stone Blackwell, Mary Elizabeth Blake, Thomas Walsh, Pet…
Jane: Chapter One
In Love Stories
Ailing and Impatient Patients, Nurturing Nurses, and familial bond. A collection of Love affairs, young and old, deftly told by "Americ…