Classicly Collection of Books

Practical Agitation

John Jay Chapman

This book is an attempt to follow the track of personal influence across society. The first three chapters are taken up with discussions of political reform, the fourth chapter with contemporary journ..

Problem Planet

R. R. Winterbotham

At first I thought she was smiling, and then I saw that her lips were grim and tense. What made her look more formidable than anything was what she held in her hand. A large-size, old fashioned thirty..

Sarah of the Sahara - A Romance of Nomads Land

George S. Chappell

Again the imperious call and challenge flashed between us as I took a seat opposite hers where I could study her features while I tossed my chips on the table. She looked up at once and I held her wit..

Short Story-Writing - An Art or a Trade?

N. Bryllion Fagin

Professor Arlo Bates in one of his talks on writing English once said: “Given a reasonable intelligence and sufficient patience, any man with the smallest gifts may learn to write at least marketable ..

Story of the automobile - Its history and development from 1760 to 1917

H. L. Barber

This book, the “Story of the Automobile,” shows the struggle of man for one hundred and fifty years to devise a means of propelling a vehicle without animal power. But if this were all that could be r..

The Boy's King Arthur

Thomas Malory

Therewithal they went unto the archbishop, and told him how the sword was achieved, and by whom. And upon the twelfth day all the barons came thither for to assay to take the sword. But there afore th..

The Last Duchess of Belgarde

Molly Elliot Seawell

The duke divided the empire of Trimousette’s soul with her brother, Count Victor of Floramour, who was an edition in small of the Duke of Belgarde, whom he ardently admired and earnestly copied, espec..

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories

George Bird Grinnell

In transcribing stories such as these, care must be used to take down just what the narrator says. The stories must be reproduced as they are told; otherwise they lose that primitive flavor which is o..