Classicly Collection of Books

Lodore, Vol. 2 (of 3)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Henry Fitzhenry was spoken of by a few of the last generation, as having been a fine, bold, handsome boy—generous, proud, and daring; he was remembered, when as a youth he departed for the continent, ..

Lodore, Vol. 3 (of 3)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

These enthusiastic words were spoken with so calm a manner, and in so equable a voice, that there seemed nothing strange nor exaggerated in them. It is vanity and affectation that shock, or any manife..

The Magic Cameo - A Love Story

Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

In a palatial residence on Nob Hill, in San Francisco, a distinguished-looking gentleman may be seen sitting in his luxurious library. Its walls are hung with an exquisite shade of old rose, the broad..

Harlem Shadows

Claude McKay

Claude McKay was born in 1890 in a little thatched house of two rooms in a beautiful valley of the hilly middle-country of Jamaica. He was born to the genial, warm, patient, neighborly farmer’s life o..

Intelligence in Plants and Animals

Thomas G. Gentry

Our libraries are to-day quite affluent in books that are the handmaids of natural science. Michelet and Hugh Miller, in their day, opened glorious new worlds before a rising generation, and that gene..

Lodore, Vol. 1 (of 3)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The party returned to town, and on the following evening they went to the Italian Opera. For the first time since her father's death, Ethel threw aside her mourning attire: for the first time also, sh..

My Arctic journal - a year among ice-fields and Eskimos

Josephine Diebitsch Peary

In reading the pages of this narrative it should be remembered that within sixty miles of where Kane and his little party endured such untold sufferings, within eighty miles of where Greely’s men one ..

The Cameroons

Albert Frederick Calvert

The establishment of the German East African protectorate forms a story that is intensely interesting, inasmuch as it reveals the duplicity of Teutonic methods in their relations with native races, Eu..