Classicly Collection of Books

A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia

Thomas Harriot

Since the first vndertaking by Sir Walter Ralegh to deale in the action of discouering of that Countrey which is now called and known by the name of VIRGINIA; many voyages hauing bin thiter made at su..

A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second

Charles James Fox

Fox’s “History of the Reign of James II.,” which begins with his view of the reign of Charles II. and breaks off at the execution of Monmouth, was the beginning of a History of England from the Revolu..

Beulah

Augusta J. Evans

A January sun had passed the zenith, and the slanting rays flamed over the window panes of a large brick building, bearing on its front in golden letters the inscription "Orphan Asylum." The structure..

In the Sweet Dry and Dry

Christopher Morley

Written just before Prohibition to entail the possible troubles that might happen en route. Both sides of the argument, or battle as the case may be, strike out with various over-top methods like legi..

Among the Tibetans

Isabella L. Bird

Isabella L. Bird was an English traveller, writer and natural historian. She was travelling in the Far East alone at a time when such endeavours were risky and dangerous even for men and large, better..

Colloquies on Society

Robert Southey

It was in 1824 that Robert Southey, then fifty years old, published “Sir Thomas More, or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society,” a book in two octavo volumes with plates illustrating lak..

Harvesting Ants and Trap-Door Spiders

J. Traherne Moggridge

Claudius Ælianus, who lived in the time of Hadrian, gives a detailed account of the habits which he attributes to ants, from which the following is a translation: "In summer time, after harvest, while..

Space-Trap At Banya Tor

W. J. Matthews

Space-Trap At Banya Tor, a short story by W. J. Matthews.  Wheelwright leaned back, clasping his knee in its black and silver hose. His eyes fell. "I can't quite feature it. Perhaps he thought he..