Friday, July 10, 2009

Free fiction: From Bleiler Checklist (1978), part 4 (Breton-Caryl)

Fourth part of the Mark Owings (alias Otzchiim)'s posts at rasfw, listing stories from Bleiler's book that are also available at either Project Gutenberg or Internet Archive. No links are included in the linked post.

List below is a decorated version of Otzchiim's list - including download links & commentary.

List of stories.

  1. Frederic Breton's "The Black Mass: A Contemporary Romance"; download; 1897.
  2. Byron A Brooks' "Earth Revisited"; download; 1893.
  3. Rhoda Broughton's "Tales for Christmas Eve/Twilight Stories"; download University of California Libraries version or unknown source version; 1873.
  4. Alice Brown's "The Flying Teuton & Other Stories"; download New York Public Library version, or University of Calfornia Libraries version; 1918.
  5. Alice Brown's "Fools of Nature"; download University of California Libraries version, Boston Public Library version, New York Public Library version, or unknown source version; 1887.
  6. Alice Brown's "The Wind between the Worlds"; download Boston Public Library version, University of California Libraries version, New York Public Library version, or Harvard University version; 1920.
  7. Brian Brown, ed's "Chinese Nights Entertainments: Stories of Old China"; download University of California Libraries version, or unknown source version; 1922.
  8. Charles Brockden Brown's "Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American tale"; download; 1798; gothic horror.
  9. Ritter Brown's "When Dreams Come True"; download; 1912.
  10. Samuel Brunt's "A Voyage to Cacklogallinia: With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country"; download; 1727.
  11. Lloyd S Bryce's "A Dream of Conquest"; download; (1890)
  12. [coll] John Buchan's "Grey Weather: Moorland Tales of My Own People"; download; 1899.
  13. [coll] John Buchan's "The Moon Endureth"; download; 1912.
  14. John Buchan's "The Watcher by the Threshold and Other Tales"; download University of California Libraries version, New York Public Library version, Harvard University version, University of California version, or University of Toronto version; 1902.
  15. J E Buckrose (Annie E Jameson)'s "Young Hearts"; download; 1920.
  16. [coll] Gerald W Bullett's "The Street of the Eye"; download; 1923.
  17. Shan F Bullock's "The Red Leaguers"; download New York Public Library version, or Harvard University version; 1904.
  18. Edward Bulwer-Lytton's "The Coming Race"; download; 1871; science fiction, utopia.
  19. Edward Bulwer-Lytton's "Godolphin"; download; 1833.
  20. Edward Bulwer-Lytton's "Haunted and the Haunters"; download; 1860.
  21. Edward Bulwer-Lytton's "A Strange Story"; download; 1861.
  22. Edward Bulwer-Lytton's "Zanoni"; download; 1842.
  23. Gelett Burgess's "Lady Mechante"; download University of California version, New York Public Library version, or University of California Libraries version; 1909.
  24. Gelett Burgess's "The White Cat"; download University of California Libraries version, University of California version, or unknown source version; 1907.
  25. Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Land of the Blue Flower"; download; 1909.
  26. Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The White People"; download; 1917: Project Gutenberg calls it juvenile.
  27. Amelia J Burr's "The Three Fires; a story of Ceylon"; download; 1922.
  28. Edgar Rice Burroughs' "At the Earth's Core"; download text/audio; 1922.
  29. Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Beasts of Tarzan"; download Harvard University version, University of Connecticut Libraries version, or University of Totonto version; 1916.
  30. Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Chessmen of Mars"; download text/audio; 1922.
  31. Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Gods of Mars"; download text/audio; 1918.
  32. Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Jungle Tales of Tarzan"; download; 1919.
  33. Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Land That Time Forgot"; download; 1924.
  34. Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Monster Men"; download; 1929.
  35. Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Mucker"; download; 1921.
  36. Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Pellucidar"; download; 1923.
  37. Edgar Rice Burroughs' "A Princess of Mars"; download text/audio; 1917.
  38. Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Return of Tarzan"; download; 1915.
  39. Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Son of Tarzan"; download; 1917.
  40. Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar"; download; 1918.
  41. Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan of the Apes"; download text/audio; 1914.
  42. Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan the Terrible"; download; 1921.
  43. Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan the Untamed"; download; 1920.
  44. Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Thuvia, Maid of Mars"; download; 1920.
  45. Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Warlord of Mars"; download text/audio; 1919.
  46. [author]'s "Vikram and the Vampire" (English translation by Richard Burton from probably Sanskrit original sources); download; 1870: This appears to be a translation of the Sanskrit collection of children's stories popularly called "Vikram & Betaal".
  47. Samuel Butler's "Erewhon"; download; 1872.
  48. Samuel Butler's "Erewhon Revisited"; download; 1901.
  49. Edwin L Bynner' "The Chase of the Meteor and Other Stories"; download; 1891.
  50. George Gordon Byron's "Mazeppa: a Poem"; download University of California Libraries version, Oxford University version 1/version 2, Harvard Universisty version, or University of Toronto version; 1819.
  51. James Branch Cabell's "The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions"; download University of California Libraries version, or University of Toronto version; 1917.
  52. James Branch Cabell's "Figures of Earth"; download; 1921.
  53. James Branch Cabell's "Jurgen"; download; 1919.
  54. George W Cable's "Strange True Stories of Louisiana"; download; 1889.
  55. Hall Caine's "The Eternal City"; download; 1901.
  56. [coll] Gilbert Cannan's "Windmills: a book of fables"; download University of California Libraries version, University of Toronto version, or unknown source version; 1915.
  57. William Canton's "The Invisible Playmate"; download University of California Libraries version 01/02/03/04, University of Michigan version, or University of Toronto version; (1894)
  58. Karel Capek's "The Absolute at Large"; 1927: This does not seem to be online at either PG or IA. Google search throws up only one online copy among the first 30 results - Google Books, where preview has only limited text.

    Update 5 August 2009: Looks like it can be seen online here in some locales but not others!

    Update 5 August 2009: A fortnight back, Radovan Garabík noted at rasfw: "FWIW, since it entered public domain the last year, the original version (along with all the published Karel Čapek's works) is available at http://www.mlp.cz/capek_bibliografie.htm".
  59. [coll] Bernard Capes' "At a Winter's Fire"; download; 1899.
  60. [coll] Bernard Capes' "Bag and Baggage"; download; 1913.
  61. William Carleton's "The Evil Eye; Or, the Black Spector"; download; 1860.
  62. John Carling's "The Viking's Skull"; download; 1903.
  63. Thomas Carlyle, ed's "German Romance"; download from among a lot of versions at Internet Archive; (1827)
  64. Charles W Caryl's "The New Era"; download; 1896.
Related: All Bleiler Checklist posts; "best of" lists. First post in the series gives some background on Bleiler Checklist.

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