Classicly Collection of Books

Physics and Politics

Walter Bagehot

One peculiarity of this age is the sudden acquisition of much physical knowledge. There is scarcely a department of science or art which is the same, or at all the same, as it was fifty years ago. A n..

Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Almost all the women that she knew admitted unhappiness of one sort or another, and discussed their domestic troubles freely. Margaret had never sunk to that; it would not even have been a relief to a..

Marie; a story of Russian love

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin, the most distinguished poet of Russia, was born at Saint Petersburg, 1799. When only twenty-one years of age he entered the civil service in the department of foreign affairs. Lord ..

Organic Gardener's Composting

Steve Solomon

The art and science of composting is presented in a humorous and readable manner from the basic elements to the in-depth science. An entire chapter is devoted to composting with red worms (vermicultur..

Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl

Horace W. C. Newte

Everyone at Melkbridge knew the Devitts: they lived in the new, pretentious-looking house, standing on the right, a few minutes after one left the town by the Bathminster road. It was a blustering, st..

The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom

Charles Darwin

There is weighty and abundant evidence that the flowers of most kinds of plants are constructed so as to be occasionally or habitually cross-fertilised by pollen from another flower, produced either b..

Mutual Aid - A Factor of Evolution

kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a book by Peter Kropotkin on the subject of mutual aid, written while he was living in exile in England. It was first published by William Heinemann in London in O..

Power Through Repose

Annie Payson Call

When the body is perfectly adjusted, perfectly supplied with force, perfectly free and works with the greatest economy of expenditure, it is fitted to be a perfect instrument alike of impression, expe..