Classicly Collection of Books

A Desperate Character and Other Stories

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.The six tales now translated for the English reader..

Bob Cook and the German Spy

Paul G. Tomlinson

Every one knows that Germany is famous for her spy system. Scarcely a land on earth but is, or was, honeycombed with the secret agents of the German Government. Ever since this country began to send w..

Margaret Montfort

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Mr. Montfort nodded, and puffed thoughtfully at his cigar. The two, uncle and niece, were sitting on the wide verandah of Fernley House; it was a soft, fair June evening, and the fireflies were flitti..

Olalla

Robert Louis Stevenson

Olalla was a shilling shocker written for the Christmas season in 1885, just before the publication of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The nameless protagonist of this Gothic tale, a wounded sold..

Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health

George E. Waring

In presenting this book to the public the writer desires to say that, having in view the great importance of thorough work in land draining, and believing it advisable to avoid every thing which might..

English Embroidered Bookbindings

Cyril Davenport

A new series of 'Books about Books,' exclusively English in its aims, may seem to savour of the patriotism which, in matters of art and historical research, is, with reason enough, often scoffed at as..

Germinie Lacerteux

Edmond de Goncourt

We must ask pardon of the public for offering it this book, and give it due warning of what it will find therein. The public loves fictitious novels! this is a true novel. It loves books which make a ..

I Remember Lemuria

Richard S. Shaver

Magic Names Are you interested in the almost forgotten past of the Earth? If you are, here is the wonder book of all time concerning the great catastrophe which destroyed the civilization which destro..