Classicly Collection of Books

With John Paul Jones

John Thomas McIntyre

Shamus O’Moore took his young master’s horse and his own to a neighboring stable where they were in the habit of putting them up, and then returned to the state house. Ethan was busy with a huge portf..

Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal Vol. 2 (of 3)

James Montgomery

The early years of Galileo were, like those of almost all great experimental philosophers, spent in the construction of instruments and pieces of machinery, which were calculated chiefly to amuse hims..

Knole and the Sackvilles

V. Sackville-West

The whole pile soars to a peak which is the clocktower with its pointed roof: it might be the spire of the church on the summit of the hill crowning the mediaeval village. At sunset I have seen the si..

Rachel - A Play in Three Acts

Angelina Weld Grimké

Before the sewing-machine, Mrs. Loving is seated. She looks worried. She is sewing swiftly and deftly by hand upon a waist in her lap. It is a white, beautiful thing and she sews upon it delicately. I..

The Great White North

Helen S. Wright

Between the lines of their simple language describing stern facts or desperate realities, one reads the character and temperament of the adventurer; one gathers lessons of patience, self-sacrifice, an..

The Vengeance of Toffee

Henry Farrell

In heavy martyrdom Marc lifted his eyes to the ceiling. What was the use? Why go through it all again? He'd explained to her a million times that he no longer had any reason to go to the office. The a..

The Wonders of Optics

Fulgence Marion

The Eye is at once the most wonderful and the most useful of all our organs of sense. It is especially by means of the eye that we gain a knowledge of the exterior world. Our other senses are far more..

Joutel's Journal of La Salle's Last Voyage, 1684-7

Henri Joutel

The present volume, giving Joutel’s Journal of La Salle’s third and last voyage, is reprinted from the first English translation of 1714, of the original French edition of 1713.René Robert Cavelier, b..