The Lock and Key Library

List of volumes:

  1. North Europe: Russian—Swedish—Danish—Hungarian
    Russian, Swedish, Danish
    Hungarian
  2. Mediterranean: Italian—Spanish—Oriental—Ancient Latin and Greek (1909) (start transcription)
    Italian and Spanish
    Oriental
    Introduction by Charles Johnston: A Web of World-Old Oriental Tales
    • "The Power of Eloquence" (Japanese)
    • "The Dishonest Goldsmith and the Ingenious Painter" (Turkish)
    • "The Craft of the Three Sharpers" (Arabic)
    • "The Cheerful Workman" (Arabic)
    • "The Robber and the Woman" (Arabic)
    • "The Wonderful Stone" (Chinese)
    • "The Weaver Who Became a Leach" (Arabic)
    • "Visakha" (Tibetan)
    • "Told by the Constable" (Arabic)
    • "The Unjust Sentence" (Chinese)
    • "The Scar on the Throat" (Arabic)
    • "Devasmita" (Sanskrit)
    • "The Sharpers and the Money-lender" (Arabic)
    • "The Withered Hand" (Turkish)
    • "The Melancholist and the Sharper" (Arabic)
    • "Lakshadatta and Labdhadatta" (Sanskrit)
    • "The Cunning Crone" (Arabic)
    • "Judgment of a Solomon" (Chinese)
    • "The Sultan and His Three Sons" (Arabic)
    • "Tale of a Demon" (Sanskrit)
    • "The Jar of Olives and the Boy Kazi" (Arabic)
    • "Another Solomon" (Chinese)
    • "Calamity Ahmad and Habzalom Bazazah" (Arabic)
    • "A Man-Hating Maiden" (Sanskrit)
    • "Told by the Constable" (Arabic)
    • "The Clever Thief" (Tibetan)
    • "The King Who Made Mats" (Persian)
    • "The Brahman Who Lost His Treasure" (Sanskrit)
    • "The Duel of the Two Sharpers" (Arabic)
    • "The Lady and the Kazi" (Persian)
    • "Mahaushadha" (Tibetan)
    • "Avicenna and the Observant Young Man" (Turkish)
    Ancient Latin and Greek
    Herodotus
    • "The Thief Versus King Rhampsinitus"
    • "The Oracle—Its Test By Crœsus"
    • "The Oracle—Behind the Scenes"
    Lucius Apuleius
    • "The Adventure of the Three Robbers"
    Pliny, the Younger
    • "Letter to Sura"
  3. German
  4. Classic French
  5. Modern French
  6. French Novels (1912) (external scan)
    • Count Kostia by Victor Cherbuliez
    • André Cornelis by Paul Bourget
    • The Last of the Costellos, anonymous
    • Lady Betty's Indiscretion, anonymous
  7. Old Time English
  8. Modern English
    • "My Own True Ghost Story" by Rudyard Kipling
    • "The Sending of Dana Da" by Rudyard Kipling
    • "In the House of Suddhoo" by Rudyard Kipling
    • "His Wedded Wife" by Rudyard Kipling
    • "A Case of Identity" by Arthur Conan Doyle
    • "A Scandal in Bohemia" by Arthur Conan Doyle
    • "The Red-Headed League" by Arthur Conan Doyle
    • "The Baron's Quarry" by Egerton Castle
    • "The Fowl in the Pot" by Stanley John Weyman
    • "The Pavilion on the Links" by Robert Louis Stevenson
    • "The Dream Woman" by Wilkie Collins
    • "The Lost Duchess", anonymous
    • "The Minor Canon", anonymous
    • "The Pipe", anonymous
    • "The Puzzle", anonymous
    • "The Great Valdez Sapphire", anonymous
  9. American
  10. Real Life
    Detective Stories from Real Life
    True Stories of Modern Magic

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