Classicly Books
Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut
James MarsI came to Norfolk on a visit at the time the war broke out, and some in Norfolk remember that I was once a slave. They asked me about it; I told them something about it; they seemed to take an interes..
Rudimentary Architecture for the Use of Beginners
W. H. LeedsIt is important that an elementary treatise,—more particularly if it profess to be a popular one, intended for the use of beginners as well as for professional students,—should not only give rules, bu..
The Dark Road - further adventures of Chéri-Bibi
Gaston LerouxArigonde bore a deadly hatred against the Nut for having deposed him from his position as the "man of fashion" in the Îles du Salut. Until the Nut came upon the scene it was Arigonde who wielded the s..
The End - How the Great War Was Stopped. A Novelistic Vagary
L. P. GratacapThere was the rug-maker and carpet weaver, Privat Deschat, an elderly, robust Norman, who worked hard at his tasks in the mornings—and his mornings began very early—read as steadily for three or four ..
The Last Days of the Romanovs
George Gustav TelbergDuring the night between the 16th and 17th of July, 1918, the former Russian Emperor Nicholas II, his family, as well as all the persons attached to it, were murdered by the order of the Yekaterinburg..
The Primrose Path - A Chapter in the Annals of the Kingdom of Fife
Mrs. OliphantLittle Margaret cared for such lamentations. She sat softly swinging the heavy chair against the wall, which was not an easy thing to do. She had not the aspect or physiognomy adapted for a hoyden; he..
British Marine Painting
A. L. BaldryBritish artists were looking to Van Dyck as their leader, and were striving, as he did, to immortalize their contemporaries or to tell in paint purely human stories. The brooks and blossoms, birds and..
Charles Peace, or The Adventures of a Notorious Burglar
AnonymousCharles Peace, from his very boyhood, was wild. It is said that there was no adventure to be undertaken in regard to which he had any fear; neither did he require twice telling when he was requested t..