Classicly Books
Christmas Chat
AnonymousChristmas Chat or, Observations on the late change at court, on the different characters of the ins and outs; and on the present state of publick affairs. A DIALOGUE Spoke at the Country Seat of one o..
Mirabilia descripta - The wonders of the East
Friar JordanusThe little work here presented was printed in the original Latin at Paris in 1839, under the editorship of M. Coquebert-Montbret, in the Recueil de Voyages et de Mémoires, publié par la Société de Géo..
The Professor's House
Willa CatherThe Professor had succeeded in making a French garden in Hamilton. There was not a blade of grass; it was a tidy half-acre of glistening gravel and glistening shrubs and bright flowers. There were tre..
A List of English & American Sequel Stories
Thomas AldredSeveral librarians who found the old list useful have asked me at various times to bring it up-to-date, and I have at last found leisure to accede to the request and to add a large number of stories n..
A Bounty Boy
Frank Thomas BullenThis perhaps should rather be called a prefatory note, since all the introduction to my book that I deem necessary is to say that in it I have endeavoured to sketch a community for whom I have the hig..
Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!!
Victoria C. WoodhullFreedom! Equality!! Justice!!! These Three; but the Greatest of These Is JusticeA Speech on the Impending Revolution, Delivered in Music Hall, Boston, Thursday, Feb. 1, 1872, and the Academy of Music,..
An Authentick Account of the Measures and Precautions Used at Venice
AnonymousThe Transporting Goods to the Lazaretti has been mentioned, the same is to be understood of Persons, who are there with their Things to perform the Quarantine, and prove their being in Health under th..
Gabrielle de Bergerac
Henry JamesMy early years had promised ill for my health; I was listless and languid, and my father had been content to leave me to the women, who, on the whole, as I have said, left me a good deal to myself. Bu..