Classicly Collection of Books

The Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic

Florence Howe Hall

The Battle Hymn of the Republic, “the crimson flower of battle,” bloomed in a single night. It sprang from the very soil of the conflict, in the midst of the Civil War. Yet the plant which produced it..

Fairy Tales for Workers' Children

Herminia zur Muhlen

The work of translating this little book of fairy tales for workers’ children is very small in comparison to the joy I get from the knowledge that you, my beloved young comrades, are going to enjoy it..

The Tunnel Under the Channel

Thomas Whiteside

In the social history of England, the English Channel, that proud sea passage some three hundred and fifty miles long, has separated that country from the Continent as by a great gulf or a bottomless ..

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales with illustrations by William Robinson. The first pair of storks who knew it had their summer quarters on a Viking’s log-house by the moor in Wendsyssel, which is in the co..

Poems

Arthur Hugh Clough

A collection of poems written by Poems.And hand in hand along the streetThis pretty pair did softly go,And as they went, their little feetMoved in short even steps and slow:It was a sight to see ..

Tiberius the Tyrant

J. C. Tarver

The political genius of a nation is shown by nothing so much as the success with which it supplements the deficiencies of its formal constitution by informal but recognized agencies. Rome was provided..

Williwaw - A Novel

Gore Vidal

Williwaw is the Indian word for a big wind peculiar to the Aleutian islands and the Alaskan coast. It is a strong wind that sweeps suddenly down from the mountains toward the sea. The word williwaw, h..

Gleanings from the Note-book of a Field Geologist

Sir Archibald Geikie

Those who have had experience of field-geology, know how vain it is to attempt to compress into a page or two the results of years, and that a few vague general directions are about the utmost that ca..