Anecdotes
Here are entered general collections of anecdotes and when divided by place, anecdotes from a particular place.
See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.
Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Anecdotes -- China
- Anecdotes -- Early works to 1800
- Anecdotes -- England
- Anecdotes -- Great Britain
- Anecdotes -- Juvenile literature
- Exempla
- History -- Anecdotes
- Last words
- Table-talk
- Alabama -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes
- Ambulance service -- England -- London -- Anecdotes
- Animals -- Anecdotes
- Anthropology -- Anecdotes
- Apparitions -- Anecdotes
- Art museum directors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Anecdotes
- Authors -- Anecdotes
- Authors, English -- Anecdotes
- Authors, French -- 19th century -- Anecdotes
- Authors, French -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
- Baldwin, Joseph G. (Joseph Glover), 1815-1864 -- Anecdotes
- Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894 -- Anecdotes
- Biography -- Anecdotes
- Breast -- Cancer -- Anecdotes
- Business -- Anecdotes
- Cats -- Anecdotes
- China -- Anecdotes
- Cities and towns -- Anecdotes
- Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908 -- Anecdotes
- Coffeehouses -- England -- Anecdotes
- Cooking -- Anecdotes
- Critical care medicine -- Anecdotes
- De Montebello, Philippe -- Anecdotes
- Dittenhoefer, Abram J. (Abram Jesse), 1836-1919 -- Anecdotes
- Dogs -- Anecdotes
- Domestic animals -- Anecdotes
- Dreams -- Anecdotes
- Education -- Anecdotes
- Falconry -- Pakistan -- Sindh -- Anecdotes
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio -- Anecdotes
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Victoria -- Anecdotes
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1800-1837 -- Anecdotes
- Hasidim -- Anecdotes
- Haunted places -- Anecdotes
- Housing -- New York (State) -- New York -- Anecdotes
- Indians of North America -- Anecdotes
- Intensive care nursing -- Canada -- Anecdotes
- Intensive care units -- Anecdotes
- Jews -- Anecdotes
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Anecdotes
- Kings and rulers -- Anecdotes
- Law -- Anecdotes
- Librarians -- Anecdotes
- Libraries -- Anecdotes
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Anecdotes
- Literature -- Anecdotes
- Marriage -- Anecdotes
- Medicine -- Anecdotes
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Anecdotes
- Mississippi -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes
- Moon -- Anecdotes
- Mormon pioneers -- Anecdotes
- Music -- Anecdotes
- Natural history -- India -- Anecdotes
- Nurse practitioners -- Canada -- Anecdotes
- Parapsychology -- Anecdotes
- Pioneers -- Victoria -- Anecdotes
- Presidents -- United States -- Anecdotes
- Pullman porters -- Anecdotes
- Rabbis -- Anecdotes
- Refuse collectors -- Anecdotes
- Schneerson, Menachem Mendel, 1902-1994 -- Anecdotes
- Science -- Anecdotes
- Sex -- Anecdotes
- Slavery -- United States -- Anecdotes
- Smoking -- Anecdotes
- Sports -- Anecdotes
- Surry County (N.C.) -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes
- Telegraph -- Anecdotes
- Theater -- Anecdotes
- Tobacco -- Anecdotes
- Tramps -- United States -- Anecdotes
- Travel -- Anecdotes
- Traveling sales personnel -- Anecdotes
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 -- Anecdotes
- United States. Air Force -- Anecdotes
- Vidich, Arthur J. -- Anecdotes
- West (U.S.) -- Anecdotes
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Anecdotes
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- Facetiae
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The Circle of Anecdote and Wit: A Choice Collection of Pieces of Humour, including Many Never Before Printed (while credited to Colman on the title page, disowned by him; London: J. Williams, 1826), contrib. by George Colman (page images at HathiTrust)- Democritus Ridens: Sive, Campus Recreationum Honestarum, Cum Exorcismo Melancholiae (in Latin, anonymously published but attributed to Lange; Augusburg: I. J. Loteri, 1754), by Johann Peter Lange
- The Kaleidoscope of Anecdotes and Aphorisms (London: R. Bentley, 1851), ed. by Catherine Sinclair
- Mélanges d'Histoire et de Litterature: Recueillis par M. de Vigneul-Marville (3 volumes in French; Rotterdam: E. Yvans, 1700-1702), by Bonaventure d' Argonne
- One Hundred Romances of Real Life (London: Whittaker and Co., 1843), ed. by Leigh Hunt, contrib. by Charlotte Smith and François Gayot de Pitaval (page images at Google)
- The Treasury of Wit, With Comic Engravings (London: Printed for T. Allman, 1836) (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
- Among the Humorists and After Dinner Speakers: A New Collection of Humorous Stories and Anecdotes (3 volumes; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by William Patten
- Anecdotes and Traditions, Illustrative of Early English History and Literature (London: Printed for the Camden Society by J. B. Nichols and son, 1839), ed. by William John Thoms, contrib. by Nicholas L'Estrange, John Aubrey, and John Collet (page images at HathiTrust)
- Jests, New and Old: Containing Anecdotes of Celebrities, Living and Deceased, Many of Which Have Never Before Been Published (London: J. W. Jarvis and Son, ca. 1887), ed. by William Carew Hazlitt
- Variety: or, Selections and Essays, Consisting of Anecdotes, Curious Facts, Interesting Narratives, with Occasional Reflections (Philadelphia: Published by James P. Parke, 1809), by Priscilla Wakefield (page images at Google)
- Beauties of Sentiment: Or an Original Collection of Moral Anecdotes, for the Young (Boston: J. Punchard, 1831) (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
- Juvenile Anecdotes, Founded on Facts, Collected for the Amusement of Children (7th edition; London: Harvey and Darton, 1825), by Priscilla Wakefield (page images at Google)
- The Dying Hours of Good and Bad Men Contrasted (1854), ed. by Daniel P. Kidder (PDF in Australia)
- Infidel Death-Beds (New York: Truth Seeker Company, ca. 1910), by G. W. Foote (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith, a Black Man, Who Was Executed at Boston This Day Being Thursday, October 12, 1797 for Burglary (1797), by Stephen Smith (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Trials and Confessions of Madison Henderson, Alias Blanchard, Alfred Amos Warrick, James W. Seward, and Charles Brown, Murderers of Jesse Baker and Jacob Weaver, as Given by Themselves; and A Likeness of Each, Taken in Jail Shortly after Their Arrest (St. Louis: Chambers and Knapp, 1841), ed. by A. B. Chambers, contrib. by Madison Henderson, James W. Seward, Alfred Amos Warrick, and Charles Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Life, and Dying Speech of Arthur, a Negro Man, Who Was Executed at Worcester, October 10, 1768, For a Rape Committed on the Body of One Deborah Metcalfe (1768), by Arthur (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Last Words and Dying Speech of Edmund Fortis, a Negro Man (1795), by Edmund Fortis (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain, a Negro, Who Was Executed at New-Haven, on the 20th Day of October, 1790, for a Rape, Committed on the 26th Day of May Last (New Haven, CT: T. and S. Green, 1790), by Joseph Mountain, ed. by David Daggett (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches, by Joseph G. Baldwin
- Blood, Sweat and Tea (Creative Commons edition, 2006), by Tom Reynolds (text at archive.org)
- Among the Forest People (New York: E. P. Dutton, c1898), by Clara Dillingham Pierson, illust. by F. C. Gordon
- Among the Meadow People (New York: E. P. Dutton, c1901), by Clara Dillingham Pierson, illust. by F. C. Gordon
- Among the Pond People (New York: E. P. Dutton, c1901), by Clara Dillingham Pierson, illust. by F. C. Gordon
- Barks and Purrs, by Colette, trans. by Maire Monica Kelly (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Beasts of the Field, by William J. Long (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
- Chapters on Animals (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1874), by Philip Gilbert Hamerton, illust. by Jules Jacques Veyrassat and Karl Bodmer
- Live Toys: or, Anecdotes of Our Four-Legged and Other Pets (London: Griffith and Farran, 1862), by Emma Davenport, illust. by Harrison Weir
- Lobo, Rag, and Vixen, by Ernest Thompson Seton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Queer Little Folks (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1897), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Wild Animals I Have Known, by Ernest Thompson Seton (Gutenberg text)
- Wild Animals I Have Known, and 200 Drawings (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1898), by Ernest Thompson Seton (HTML at LOC)
- Wild Animals I Have Known, and 200 Drawings (Toronto: G.N. Morang, 1899), by Ernest Thompson Seton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- My Animal Babies (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1945), by Belle Jennings Benchley (page images at HathiTrust)
- School of the Woods: Some Life Studies of Animal Instincts and Animal Training (Boston: Ginn and Company, c1902), by William J. Long, illust. by Charles Copeland (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- The Soul of a Cat, And Other Stories (London: W. Heinemann, 1901), by Margaret Benson, illust. by Henriette Ronner
- Wood Folk at School (Boston et al: Ginn and Co., c1903), by William J. Long (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Wild Animals at Home (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923), by Ernest Thompson Seton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- In an Elephant Corral, and Other Tales of West African Experiences (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1912), by Robert Hamill Nassau
- Waiting for Foucault, Still (electronic 4th edition; Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2002), by Marshall Sahlins (PDF with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)
- The Night Side of Nature: or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers (2 volumes; London: T. C. Newby, 1848), by Catherine Crowe
- Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977-2008 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2009), by James R. Houghton, Katharine Baetjer, Dorothea Arnold, Joan Aruz, Carlos A. Picón, Peter Barnet, Everett Fahy, Keith Christiansen, Walter A. Liedtke, Colta Feller Ives, George R. Goldner, Ian Wardropper, Thomas P. Campbell, Dita Amory, Laurence B. Kanter, Morrison H. Heckscher, J. Kenneth Moore, Hilde Limondjian, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Donald J La Rocca, Maxwell K. Hearn, James C. Y. Watt, Stefano Carboni, Julie Jones, Alisa LaGamma, Eric Kjellgren, Virginia-Lee Webb, Gary Tinterow, Malcolm R. Daniel, Harold Koda, and John Philip O'Neill (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
- Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
- Curiosities of Literature (compilation of articles originally published in editions from 1798-1823), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Stuart Heath (HTML at spamula.net)
- Some Literary Eccentrics (London: A. Constable and Co., 1906), by John Fyvie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Anatole France and His Circle: Being His Table-Talk (London: J. Lane, 1922), by Anatole France, ed. by Paul Gsell, trans. by Frederic Lees, illust. by Pierre Calmettes (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Anatole France and His Circle: Being His Table-Talk (London: J. Lane, 1922), by Anatole France, ed. by Paul Gsell, trans. by Frederic Lees, illust. by Pierre Calmettes (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches, by Joseph G. Baldwin
- Personal Reminiscences in Book-Making, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
- Wet Earth and Dreams: A Narrative of Grief and Recovery (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998), by Jane Lazarre (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cyclopaedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes (published under "Frazar Kirkland" pseudonym in 2 volumes; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1864), by R. M. Devens
- Cyclopaedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes (published under "Frazar Kirkland" pseudonym in 1 volume; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1868), by R. M. Devens
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