Classicly Collection of Books

Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune

Victor Appleton

Tom only smiled confidently, and went on: "Well, Dad, all you'll have to do will be to wait and see. It isn't going to be easy--I grant that. In fact, I've run up against more snags, the little way I'..

Biographies of Working Men

Grant Allen

"Biographies of Working Men" is a volume containing brief biographies of seven men from working class backgrounds who went on to excel in their chosen fields. They are: Thomas Telford, George Stephens..

Precipitations

Evelyn Scott

Evelyn Ruth Scott AO was an Indigenous Australian social activist and educator. She began working in the Townsville Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advancement League in the 1960s. She chaired t..

The Secret Passage

Fergus Hume

Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: "That painstakingly ingenious person, Fergus Hume, has devised another of his hide..

The A B C of Mining - A Handbook for Prospectors

Charles A. Bramble

Owing to recent rich discoveries in more than one mining field, hundreds of shrewd, intelligent men without experience in prospecting are turning their attention to that arduous pursuit—to such this b..

The Heart's Highway - A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

In 1682, when I was thirty years of age and Mistress Mary Cavendish just turned of eighteen, she and I together one Sabbath morning in the month of April were riding to meeting in Jamestown. We were a..

The Story of the Soil

Cyril G. Hopkins

Truth is better than fiction; and this true story of the soil is written in co-operation with the Press of America and in competition with popular fiction. The scenes described exist; the references g..

Born in Exile

George Gissing

The summer day in 1874 which closed the annual session of Whitelaw College was marked by a special ceremony, preceding the wonted distribution of academic rewards. At eleven in the morning (just as a ..