Classicly Collection of Books

Six Little Ducklings

Katharine Pyle

OLD MOTHER DUCK and her six little ducklings lived in a hollow tree down by the river, and here they were all as happy as the day was long. They had the whole of the broad bright river to swim about o..

The Bronze Hand

Anna Katharine Green

The Bronze Hand is a mystery story written by Anna Katharine Green.HER room was on the ground floor of the house we mutually inhabited, and mine directly above it, so that my opportunities for se..

The Brotherhood of Consolation

Honore de Balzac

In 1836 this marvellous scene presented still another lesson to the eye: between the Parisian leaning on the parapet and the cathedral lay the “Terrain” (such was the ancient name of this barren spot)..

The New McGuffey Fourth Reader

William Holmes McGuffey

Young Benjamin Franklin, by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- A Hard Word -- A Song, by James Whitcomb Riley -- The Journey of Life. An Allegory -- What I live for -- Try Again!, by Charlotte Elizabeth -- True M..

The Plum Tree

David Graham Phillips

In the shelf one book stood higher than the others—tall and thin and ragged, its covers torn, its pages scribbled, stained and dog-eared. Looking through that old physical geography was like a first t..

The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 4 (of 5)

Marguerite de Valois

The Lady Oisille, as was her excellent custom, rose up on the morrow very much earlier than the others, and meditating upon her book of Holy Scripture, awaited the company which, little by little, ass..

The Under Dog

Francis Hopkinson Smith

The Under Dog is a collection of short stories written by Francis Hopkinson Smith.No Respecter of Persons  I. The Crime of Samanthy North  II. Bud Tilden, Mail-Thief  III. "Eleven ..

Hurricane Island

H. B. Marriott Watson

Hurricane Island is an adventurous love story written by H. B. MARRIOTT WATSON author of novel "CAUnless a man be in deadly earnest or very young, I cannot conceive a career more distressing to t..