Classicly Books
A History of Freedom of Thought
J. B. BuryIT is a common saying that thought is free. A man can never be hindered from thinking whatever he chooses so long as he conceals what he thinks. The working of his mind is limited only by the bounds o..
La Comédie Humaine - Le Père Goriot
Honore de BalzacLe Père Goriot (English: Father Goriot or Old Goriot) is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequ..
The Auction Block
Rex BeachTHE AUCTION BLOCK is a general fiction work written By REX BEACH, who is also the author of "THE SILVER HORDE" "THE SPOILERS" "THE IRON TRAIL" Etc.Excerpts:His father interrupted harshly: "Now, cut th..
The Bars of Iron
Ethel M. DellThey stood in the garish light of a Queensland bar, surrounded by an eager, gaping crowd of farmers, boundary-riders, sheep-shearers, who had come down to this township on the coast on business or ple..
The Lost House
Richard Harding DavisAustin Ford, the London correspondent of the New York Republic, is spending some idle time in the American Embassy chatting with the Second Secretary, when suddenly a note is brought in. This note is ..
The Swoop!
P. G. WodehouseThe Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies — "England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. It was beneath the heels of nine invaders. There was barely standi..
Cham et Japhet
Ausone de ChancelCham et Japhet, ou De l'émigration des nègres chez les blancs considérée comme moyen providentiel de régénérer la race nègre et de civiliser l'Afrique intérieure., by Ausone de Chancel...
L'esprit de la révolution de 1789
P.-L. RoedererLa révolution procède de causes antérieures au 4 août qui vit l'abolition des priviléges, au 14 juillet qui vit le renversement de la Bastille, à la convocation des états-généraux, à l'assemblée des n..