Classicly Collection of Books

Rasputin and the Russian Revolution

Princess Catherine Radziwill

When the book called “Behind the Veil at the Russian Court” was published the Romanoff’s were reigning and, considering the fact that she was living in Russia at the time, the author of it, had her id..

Dead Men Tell Tales

Harry Rimmer

The material contained in this apologetic is derived from various sources. Much of it came from records in the famed British Museum, in London, England. This marvelous storehouse of treasure from the ..

Jenny - A Village Idyl

M. A. Curtois

A dark gipsy-looking woman, with fierce eyebrows and eyes, who had a dark little girl by her side, seemed to be a stranger to the town, for she sat by one of the windows and with excited gestures poin..

Daffydowndilly and the Golden Touch

Alpha Banta Benson

There was once a little boy whose name was Daffydowndilly. Isn’t that a pretty name? Well, Daffydowndilly was a very pretty little boy. He had bright blue eyes and his cheeks were like roses, while hi..

Inside the Russian Revolution

Rheta Childe Dorr

A great deal of news, as we regard news, never gets into the papers at all, or is compressed into very small space. For example there have been a number of terrible railroad accidents on the Russian r..

That Marvel—The Movie

Edward S. Van Zile

To grasp the past progress, the present significance and the future possibilities of the motion picture; to express them with restraint and yet with clarity.The other arts are old. Music was born with..

The Charterhouse of Parma, Volume 1

Stendhal

M. Beyle has written a book in which sublimity glows from chapter after chapter. He has produced, at an age when men rarely find monumental subjects and after having written a score of extremely intel..

A Girl of To-day

Ellinor Davenport Adams

The boy’s face, uplifted to his sister’s, was full of the happy enthusiasm which feels itself secure of sympathy; and Frances’s heart beat high with pleasure because her welcome home was of this joyfu..