Classicly Collection of Books

The Indians in Wisconsin's History

John M. Douglass

We look about the inside of the lodge and see the sleeping mats and furs. The family’s spare clothing, breechclouts, shirts, leggings, and moccasins of tanned deerskin for the men, and skirts, blouses..

Delicious Recipes - Including Toll House Chocolate Cookies

Nestle

It was here in 1930 that Ruth Wakefield, a well-known dietician and lecturer, started her now famous inn, calling it “The Toll House,” where old-fashioned favorites and new recipes are carefully prepa..

Lasers

Hal Hellman

The transistor burst upon the electronic scene in the 1950s. Almost overnight the size of new models of radios, television sets, and a host of other electronic devices shrank like deflating balloons. ..

Paddy at Home

E. De Mandat-Grancey

“Traduttori! tradittori!” says an Italian proverb, and this I had so forcibly in my mind that I had some hesitation when Mr. Chapman did me the honour to offer to publish an English translation of my ..

The Adventures of Peterkin

Gilbert W. Gabriel

He pulled his little ladder out from under a tumble of pots and pans and bric-a-brac and blankets, and set it up against the wall. Then up he clambered, step by step, until he had poked his head throu..

The Youth of Washington

S. Weir Mitchell

The Youth of Washington: Told in the Form of an Autobiography by S. Weir Mitchell. My reflections have brought back to mind a remark which seems to me just, made by my aide, Colonel Tilghman, a m..

This Then is Upland Pastures

Adeline Knapp

This Then is Upland Pastures : Being some out-door essays dealing with the beautiful things that the spring and summer bring. A bank where wake-robin lifts its bonny head is always fair to see. T..

The Escape

William Wells Brown

This play was written for my own amusement, and not with the remotest thought that it would ever be seen by the public eye. I read it privately, however, to a circle of my friends, and through them wa..