Classicly Collection of Books

The Road Builders

Samuel Merwin

The Road Builders by Samuel Merwin is a classic western which tells the story of Paul Carhart and his team of railroad engineers during the 1870s with a difficult job building in Texas...

The Second Book of Modern Verse

Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

The Second Book of Modern Verse is a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets compiled by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse, daughter of John Edward and Mary Rittenhouse, was a literary critic..

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century

Agnes M. Clerke

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century from Agnes Mary Clerke, an Irish astronomer and writer, mainly in the field of astronomy. She was born in Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland,..

The Bark Covered House

William Nowlin

The Bark Covered House Or, Back In the Woods Again; Being a Graphic and Thrilling Description of Real Pioneer Life in the Wilderness of Michigan. Preface from the book:I have delineated the scene..

The Valley of the Kings

Marmaduke William Pickthall

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall was a British Islamic scholar noted for his 1930 English translation of the Quran, called The Meaning of the Glorious Koran. ..

Boer Politics

Yves Guyot

A word in explanation of this English edition is perhaps not unnecessary. It will be remembered that the arguments in the following pages appeared originally in the columns of Le Siècle, and from the ..

Mary Slessor of Calabar - Pioneer Missionary

W. P. Livingstone

Life for most people is governed by authority and convention, but behind these there lies always the mystery of human nature, uncertain and elusive, and apt now and again to go off at a tangent and di..

Our Day

William Ambrose Spicer

Man may write a true book, but only God, the source of life, can write a living book. "The word of God ... liveth and abideth forever." 1 Peter 1:23. The Bible is the living word of God. We look at th..