Classicly Collection of Books

The Story of Gombi

H. De Vere Stacpoole

Now you’ll see plainly enough that this new development had made matters ten times worse. Yet instead of that depressing me it bucked me like a glass of brandy. Sitting there on the log and thinking o..

Alice and Beatrice

Grandmamma

The children looked in, and saw several tubs of beer and cider placed side by side. Then grandmamma unlocked another door, and that was the wine cellar. They all went in; it was much cleaner and drier..

Two in Arcadia

Lucine Finch

There are snow peaks in your heart,And a grayness that is cold.But wisdom comes with loving, sweet,And all your moods my love can meet—Because my love is bold!Into the night we went, we two,Under the ..

The Glamour of the Arctic

Arthur Conan Doyle

The trade which these men follow is old and honorable. There was a time when the Greenland seas were harried by the ships of many nations, when the Basques and the Biscayens were the great fishers of ..

The House of the Arrow

A. E. W. Mason

Jim Frobisher had an unusual quality of which his acquaintances, even his friends, knew only the outward signs. He was a solitary person. Very few people up till now had mattered to him at all, and ev..

The Irish Nuns at Ypres

Dame M. Columban

The following narrative was originally intended, as a record of the events it relates, for the use of the Community only. But, shortly after the arrival of the Mother Prioress in England, the manuscri..

The Native Races of East Africa

Wilfrid D. Hambly

A few years ago two dwarfs or Pygmies from the trackless forests of Uganda were bold enough to allow themselves to be brought to London, where they were exhibited and photographed. Unfortunately these..

Apes and Monkeys: Their Life and Language

R. L. Garner

The author frankly confesses to his own belief in the psychic unity of all animate nature. Believing in a common source of life, a common law of living, and a common destiny for all creatures, he feel..