Classicly Collection of Books

The Worm Ouroboros

E. R. Eddison

Cool long shadows stole across the tennis lawn. The air was golden. Doves murmured in the trees; two chaffinches played on the near post of the net; a little water-wagtail scurried along the path. A F..

Bumps and His Buddies

Marie Helene Gulbransen

It was growing dusk by this time and Bumps was so hungry that he began hunting about in his pockets for crumbs of his luncheon. When the little brown Bunny saw him do this, and also saw that Bumps did..

Winnie-the-Pooh

A. A. Milne

I had written as far as this when Piglet looked up and said in his squeaky voice, "What about Me?" "My dear Piglet," I said, "the whole book is about you." "So it is about Pooh," he squeaked. You see ..

The A B C of Relativity

Bertrand Russell

Everybody knows that Einstein has done something astonishing, but very few people know exactly what it is that he has done. The same sort of change was demanded by Copernicus, when he taught that the ..

The Animals' Christmas Tree

John P. Peters

Did you ever hear a pig squeal? Oh, how that pig squealed then! And he got up on his fat little legs and tried to run away, but all the animals gathered around in a ring and the hyenas laughed, and th..

The North Americans of Antiquity

John T. Short

The growing interest in the origin, migrations and life of the races of American Antiquity has led me to believe that the subjects considered in these pages would meet with the favorable attention of ..

Youth, Vol. I, No. 7, September 1902

Herbert Leonard Coggins

In the year 1684, after a stay of twenty-one months, Penn was forced to return to England to protect his proprietary interests, as they were at that time threatened by the plans of Lord Baltimore. In ..

Boy: A Sketch

Marie Corelli

Boy stopped twisting the gold chain. Things began to look serious. He put one rosy finger into his rosier mouth, and started to consider the question. “No kind good Muzzy to take care of you.” Mrs. D’..