Classicly Collection of Books

The Obedient Servant

S. M. Tenneshaw

Raymond sat hunched beside the chauffeur who was a trifle nervous. But the chauffeur hid his agitation because John Gardner paid well and had been known to discharge chauffeurs who displeased him and ..

Priscilla of the Good Intent

Halliwell Sutcliffe

Priscilla was vaguely disturbed. Softness of speech and manner she understood, for she had ever been a favourite with the landed gentlefolk of Strathgarth; and, because she understood them, she detect..

Won By Magic

Nicholas Carter

Jai Singh was instructed to get his boat, as well as the crew, on board the ship, and the captain immediately gave orders to steam up to the regular wharf belonging to Jefferson Arnold.Nick Carter got..

Belshazzar - A Tale of the Fall of Babylon

William Stearns Davis

But never in her mountain home had Atossa seen a sight like that upon the river. For the Euphrates seemed turned to life. Clumsy barges loaded with cattle were working with long sweeps against the cur..

The Life of the Scorpion

Jean-Henri Fabre

On the other hand, I know of another function, which is very easily observed when the Scorpion meanders, belly uppermost, over the wire trellis of my dish-covers. When he is at rest, the two combs are..

The Sacred Beetle, and Others

Jean-Henri Fabre

This is the first of the four volumes containing Fabre’s essays on Beetles, the order of insects to which, if we judge by his output, he devoted the longest study. Of the eighteen chapters that m..

The Stolen Brain

Nicholas Carter

The detective saw that John Wallace was not a visionary crank but a practical man of affairs, who was not likely to exaggerate. Grantley’s reputation lent color to the possibility, for another thing, ..

Brief Guide - National Gallery of Art

Anonymous

Architect for the National Gallery was John Russell Pope, who also designed the Jefferson Memorial and other outstanding public buildings in Washington. The building is one of the largest marble struc..