Classicly Books
Minnesota and Dacotah
C. C. AndrewsIntroduction by Author:THE object of publishing these letters can be very briefly stated.During the last autumn I made a tour into Minnesota, upwards of a hundred and thirty miles north-west of St. Pa..
Old Granny Fox
Thornton W. BurgessSnow covered the Green Meadows and the Green Forest, and ice bound the Smiling Pool and the Laughing Brook. Reddy and Granny Fox were hungry most of the time. It was not easy to find enough to eat the..
The McNaughtens
Jean François RegnardSpruce Oh, if I gamble a little it's only to spend the time while you are spending the night in certain black gambling dens. I hear you swearing right up to the door. I swear, too, when luck is agains..
Australia Twice Traversed
Ernest GilesAustralia Twice TraversedThe Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 187..
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician
Frederick NiecksThe first work of some length having Chopin for its subject was Liszt's "Frederic Chopin," which, after appearing in 1851 in the Paris journal "La France musicale," came out in book-form, still in Fre..
Les Cinq Cents Millions De La Bégum
Jules VerneLe docteur Sarrasin avait toute sa vie pratiqué le monologue, qui est une des formes de la distraction.C'était un homme de cinquante ans, aux traits fins, aux yeux vifs et purs sous leurs lunettes d'a..
Luck, or Cunning, as the Main Means of Organic Modification
Samuel ButlerThis second edition of Luck, or Cunning? is a reprint of the first edition, dated 1887, but actually published in November, 1886. The only alterations of any consequence are in the Index, which ..
Moral
Ludwig ThomaDr. Ludwig Thoma, perhaps better known to his Bavarian countrymen as Peter Schlemiehl, was born in Oberammergau on January 21, 1867. After graduating from a gymnasium in Munich, he studied at the Scho..