Classicly Collection of Books

The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum

Wallace Irwin

So Complained Phineas Fletcher in his Purple Island as long ago as 1633. Three centuries have brought to the development of lyric passion no higher form than that of the sonnet cycle. The sonnet has b..

The Romance of Rubber

United States Rubber Company

We have undertaken to print this booklet, telling you how rubber is grown, gathered, and then made useful, for this reason: The United States Rubber Company, as the largest rubber manufacturer in the ..

Baree, Son of Kazan

James Oliver Curwood

Since the publication of my two animal books, "Kazan, the Wolf Dog" and "The Grizzly King," I have received so many hundreds of letters from friends of wild animal life, all of which were more or less..

The Forfeiture

Charles Rivière Dufresny

I am a little less furious with Araminte. For a few moments I thought I'd won her over. But her character is subject to change. Agitating itself with several passions at the same time, in her burning ..

The Spirit of Contradiction

Charles Rivière Dufresny

Everything I've planted is torn up. She's replanted all the weeds I tore out when I was grafting. She said they're wildflowers. Then when I planted the cabbages she said she now wants lettuces. Nothin..

Kennedy Square

Francis Hopkinson Smith

“Kennedy Square, in the late fifties, was a place of birds and trees and flowers; of rude stone benches, sagging arbors smothered in vines, and cool dirt paths bordered by sweet-smelling box. Giant ma..

Ten Nights in a Bar Room

T. S. Arthur

Ten years ago, business required me to pass a day in Cedarville. It was late in the afternoon when the stage set me down at the "Sickle and Sheaf," a new tavern, just opened by a new landlord, in a ne..

The River's End

James Oliver Curwood

Between Conniston, of His Majesty's Royal Northwest Mounted Police, and Keith, the outlaw, there was a striking physical and facial resemblance. Both had observed it, of course. It gave them a sort of..