Classicly Books
Memories of My Life
Sarah BernhardtMy father used to come to the house of my Aunt Rosine, who was then living at 6 Rue de la Chaussée d’Antin. He was on friendly terms with Rossini, who lived at No. 4 in the same street. He often broug..
Plet - A Christmas Tale of the Wasatch
Alfred LambourneThe Christmas Eve! Ill time had chosen FateTo work her will and joy annihilate!Women and children lay beneath that snow,And many a bronzed cheek was touched with woe.Think not those men who toil amid ..
Researches Chemical and Philosophical
Humphry DavyEarly experience has taught me the folly of hasty generalisation. We are ignorant of the laws of corpuscular motion; and an immense mass of minute observations concerning the more complicated chemical..
Silver Rags
Willis Boyd AllenThe forenoon was spent quietly in the barn, in the capacious bays of which the mounds of fragrant hay had just been stored, still warm with the midsummer sunshine, and furnishing an occasional sleepy ..
The Book of Christmas
Various AuthorsA Book of Christmas is a text-book of piety, friendship, merriment; a record of the real business of the race, which is not to make money, but to make life full and sweet and satisfying. It is a book ..
The Preaching of Islam
T. W. ArnoldThe scheme adopted in this book for the transliteration of Arabic words is that laid down by the Transliteration Committee of the Tenth International Congress of Orientalists, held at Geneva in 1894, ..
Bees, Shown to the Children
Ellison HawksIn this little book I intend to tell you something about my bees. I hope that you will be interested to read what I have written, and then perhaps, later on, when you grow up, you may keep bees, and y..
Greensea Island - A Mystery of the Essex Coast
Victor BridgesThis belief was increased by the faint but curious suggestion of reserve which seemed to linger in the background, even when she was speaking about the most unimportant matters. It gave me the impress..