Classicly Books
Shen of the Sea - A Book for Children
Arthur Bowie ChrismanShen of the sea: Chinese stories for children.Ah Mee's inventionShen of the seaHow wise were the old menChop-sticksBuy a fatherFour generalsThe Rain King's daughterMany wivesThat lazy Ah FunThe Moon M..
The Bobbsey Twins and Baby May
Laura Lee HopeIn the first book of this series, “The Bobbsey Twins,” you learn that Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bobbsey lived with their two sets of twins in the eastern city of Lakeport on Lake Metoka, where Mr. Bobbsey ..
The Bravest Girl in School
Ethel TalbotThe children’s father appeared to be the most{20} cheery member of the group that met at the breakfast-table. Sybil found herself for once quite unable to eat, and if it had not been for Ann’s I-told-..
Women
Booth TarkingtonIt appears to me that this very demand might tend to the damage of realism, which I take to mean lifelikeness and to be the most important demand of all. So I say: Why shouldn’t a book about women, or..
Hans of Iceland, Vol. 1 of 2
Victor HugoWe give this book back to the world in 1833 as it was written in 1821, because we feel that the work, ingenuous, if nothing else, gives a tolerably faithful picture of the age that produced it. Moreov..
Hans of Iceland, Vol. 2 of 2
Victor HugoThere is something desolate and forbidding in the aspect of a bare, flat region when the sun has set, when one is alone; when, as he walks, he tramples the dry grass beneath his feet, the dead brown l..
Hero From Yesterday
Randall GarrettHe knew that Lugert's personal suite was on the eighth floor of the building, that he was guarded by one man outside the door, one at the elevator entrance, and several in the lobby. He didn't have to..
Migration of Birds (1979)
Frederick C. LincolnThe changing picture of bird populations throughout the year intrigues those who are observant and who wish to know the source and destination of these birds. Birds are the most mobile creatures on Ea..