Classicly Collection of Books

The Bars of Iron

Ethel M. Dell

They stood in the garish light of a Queensland bar, surrounded by an eager, gaping crowd of farmers, boundary-riders, sheep-shearers, who had come down to this township on the coast on business or ple..

The Lost House

Richard Harding Davis

Austin Ford, the London correspondent of the New York Republic, is spending some idle time in the American Embassy chatting with the Second Secretary, when suddenly a note is brought in. This note is ..

The Swoop!

P. G. Wodehouse

The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies — "England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. It was beneath the heels of nine invaders. There was barely standi..

Cham et Japhet

Ausone de Chancel

Cham et Japhet, ou De l'émigration des nègres chez les blancs considérée comme moyen providentiel de régénérer la race nègre et de civiliser l'Afrique intérieure., by Ausone de Chancel...

L'esprit de la révolution de 1789

P.-L. Roederer

La révolution procède de causes antérieures au 4 août qui vit l'abolition des priviléges, au 14 juillet qui vit le renversement de la Bastille, à la convocation des états-généraux, à l'assemblée des n..

Ontboezemingen

Carel van Nievelt

Hebt ge wel eens een neef, of broêr, of vriend van een eerste zeereis zien t'huiskomen? Hebt ge, wanneer 't verdoolde schaap per Zierikzeesche boot zou arriveren, hem in dat Zeeuwsche stedeken opgewac..

Practical Education, Volume I

Richard Lovell Edgeworth

We shall not imitate the invidious example of some authors, who think it necessary to destroy the edifices of others, in order to clear the way for their own. We have no peculiar system to support, an..

Adventures in the Arts

Marsden Hartley

Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets. The papers in this book are not intended in any way to be professional treatises. They must be viewed in the light of ..