Classicly Collection of Books

Familiar Letters of Chemistry

Justus Liebig

The Letters contained in this little Volume embrace some of the most important points of the science of Chemistry, in their application to Natural Philosophy, Physiology, Agriculture, and Commerce. So..

The Farm That Won't Wear Out

Cyril G. Hopkins

IT IS an old saying that "any fool can farm," and this was almost the truth when farming consisted chiefly in reducing the fertility of new, rich land secured at practically no cost from a generous Go..

Aaron's Rod

D. H. Lawrence

Aaron's Rod is a picaresque novel by D. H. Lawrence, started in 1918 and published in 1922. Aaron Sisson, a union official in the coal mines of the English Midlands, is trapped in a stale marriage. He..

On Conducting (Ueber das Dirigiren) - A Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music

Richard Wagner

Wagner's Ueber das Dirigiren was published simultaneously in the "Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik" and the "New-Yorker Musik-zeitung," 1869. It was immediately issued in book form, Leipzig, 1869, and is no..

The Fight for the Republic in China

B.L. Putnam Weale

This volume tells everything that the student or the casual reader needs to know about the Chinese Question. It is sufficiently exhaustive to show very clearly the new forces at work, and to bring som..

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the narrative centers on the title character..

Peter - A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero

Francis Hopkinson Smith

Peter was still poring over his ledger one dark afternoon in December, his bald head glistening like a huge ostrich egg under the flare of the overhead gas jets, when Patrick, the night watchman, catc..

The Golden Snare

James Oliver Curwood

Bram Johnson was an unusual man, even for the northland. He was, above all other things, a creature of environment—and necessity, and of that something else which made of him at times a man with a sou..