Classicly Books
The Natural History of Wiltshire
John AubreyIN the "Memoir of John Aubrey", published by the Wiltshire Topographical Society in 1845, I expressed a wish that the "NATURAL HISTORY of WILTSHIRE", the most important of that author's unpublished ma..
Won By the Sword - a tale of the Thirty Years' War
G. A. HentyAuthor's Preface: In my preface to the Lion of the North I expressed a hope that I might some day be able to continue the history of the Thirty Years' War. The deaths of Gustavus and his great ri..
Dry-Farming - A System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall
John A. WidtsoeNearly six tenths of the earth's land surface receive an annual rainfall of less than twenty inches, and can be reclaimed for agricultural purposes only by irrigation and dry-farming. A perfected worl..
King Midas - a Romance
Upton SinclairIn the course of this story, the author has had occasion to refer to Beethoven's Sonata Appassionata as containing a suggestion of the opening theme of the Fifth Symphony. He has often seen this state..
Legends of Charlemagne
Thomas BulfinchIf no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. But if that which..
Paste Jewels
John Kendrick BangsIt may interest the readers of this collection of tales, if there should be any such, to know that the incidents upon which the stories are based are unfortunately wholly truthful. They have one..
The Age of Fable
Thomas BulfinchThomas Bulfinch was a native of Boston, Mass., where he was born in 1796. His boyhood was spent in that city, and he prepared for college in the Boston schools. He finished his scholastic training at ..
The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig - A Novel
David Graham PhillipsArkwright glanced from the parlor where he was sitting into the gloom of the open bathroom and back again. His cynical brown-green eyes paused upon a scatter of clothing, half-hiding the badly-rubbed ..