Classicly Books
Ontboezemingen
Carel van NieveltHebt ge wel eens een neef, of broêr, of vriend van een eerste zeereis zien t'huiskomen? Hebt ge, wanneer 't verdoolde schaap per Zierikzeesche boot zou arriveren, hem in dat Zeeuwsche stedeken opgewac..
Practical Education, Volume I
Richard Lovell EdgeworthWe shall not imitate the invidious example of some authors, who think it necessary to destroy the edifices of others, in order to clear the way for their own. We have no peculiar system to support, an..
Adventures in the Arts
Marsden HartleyAdventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets. The papers in this book are not intended in any way to be professional treatises. They must be viewed in the light of ..
Six Little Ducklings
Katharine PyleOLD MOTHER DUCK and her six little ducklings lived in a hollow tree down by the river, and here they were all as happy as the day was long. They had the whole of the broad bright river to swim about o..
The Bronze Hand
Anna Katharine GreenThe Bronze Hand is a mystery story written by Anna Katharine Green.HER room was on the ground floor of the house we mutually inhabited, and mine directly above it, so that my opportunities for se..
The Brotherhood of Consolation
Honore de BalzacIn 1836 this marvellous scene presented still another lesson to the eye: between the Parisian leaning on the parapet and the cathedral lay the “Terrain” (such was the ancient name of this barren spot)..
The New McGuffey Fourth Reader
William Holmes McGuffeyYoung Benjamin Franklin, by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- A Hard Word -- A Song, by James Whitcomb Riley -- The Journey of Life. An Allegory -- What I live for -- Try Again!, by Charlotte Elizabeth -- True M..
The Plum Tree
David Graham PhillipsIn the shelf one book stood higher than the others—tall and thin and ragged, its covers torn, its pages scribbled, stained and dog-eared. Looking through that old physical geography was like a first t..