Classicly Collection of Books

Black Hawk's Warpath

Herbert L. Risteen

Tom and Ben had hardly arrived, when a coppery warrior got to his feet and launched an oration that seemed to the attentive boys to be both stirring and forceful. He was a tall, strong savage, of hand..

Dairy Disagreeables Busy the Bacteriologists

F. H. Hall

This bitter flavor is not the same as the bitterness quite common in milk and cream at certain seasons of the year; as the milk itself tasted and smelled all right until well along in the process of c..

Waheenee: An Indian Girl's Story

Gilbert Livingstone Wilson

The Hidatsas, called Minitaris by the Mandans, are a Siouan tribe and speak a language closely akin to that of the Crows. Wars with the Dakota Sioux forced them to ally themselves with the Mandans, wh..

The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 3

James Augustus St. John

PETER SIMON PALLAS: This traveller, whose works are comparatively little known in England, was born at Berlin, September 22, 1741. His father, who was an able surgeon, entertained the design of educat..

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

That winter Robert Cohn went over to America with his novel, and it was accepted by a fairly good publisher. His going made an awful row I heard, and I think that was where Frances lost him, because s..

Corea: The Hermit Nation

William Elliot Griffis

My purpose in this work is to give an outline of the history of the Land of Morning Calm—as the natives call their country—from before the Christian era to the present year. As “an honest tale speeds ..

Fantasy: A Novel

Matilde Serao

The naturalism of Matilde Serao deserves to be distinguished from that of the French contemporaries with whom she is commonly classed. She has a finer passion, more of the true ardour of the South, th..

Lost with Lieutenant Pike

Edwin L. Sabin

This story takes the adventure trail of that young soldier-explorer Zebulon Montgomery Pike, who was lost in the mountains of southern Colorado one hundred years ago.The southwestern boundary was unce..