Classicly Collection of Books

The End - How the Great War Was Stopped. A Novelistic Vagary

L. P. Gratacap

There 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 Telberg

During 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. Oliphant

Little 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. Baldry

British 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

Anonymous

Charles 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..

Christmas Chat

Anonymous

Christmas 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 Jordanus

The 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 Cather

The 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..