Classicly Books
The Blind Spot
Austin HallThe Blind Spot opens with the words: “Perhaps it were just as well to start at the beginning. A mere matter of news.” Suppose I use them in the same sense:A mere matter of news: The first instalment o..
Young Canada's Nursery Rhymes
Various AuthorsThere was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile: He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all li..
The Heart of Rachael
Kathleen Thompson NorrisThe day had opened so brightly, in such a welcome wave of April sunshine, that by mid-afternoon there were two hundred players scattered over the links of the Long Island Country Club at Belvedere Bay..
The Kellys and the O'Kellys
Anthony TrollopeThe whole Irish bar seemed, for the time, to have laid aside the habitual sang froid and indifference of lawyers, and to have employed their hearts as well as their heads on behalf of the different pa..
The Lilac Sunbonnet - A Love Story
S. R. CrockettAs Ralph Peden came along the dusty Cairn Edward road from the coach which had set him down there on its way to the Ferry town, he paused to rest in the evening light at the head of the Long Wood of L..
Undertow
Kathleen Thompson NorrisThe marriage of Albert Bradley and Anne Polk Barrett was as close as anything comes, in these prosaic days, to a high adventure. Nancy's Uncle Thomas, a quiet, gentle old Southerner who wore tan linen..
Five of Maxwell's Papers
James Clerk MaxwellFive of Maxwell's Papers consists of On the unequal sensibility of the Foramen Centrale to light of different coloursOn the theory of compound colours with reference to mixtures of blue and yello..
Galusha the Magnificent
Joseph Crosby LincolnMr. Horatio Pulcifer was on his way home. It was half-past five of a foggy, gray afternoon in early October; it had rained the previous day and a part of the day before that and it looked extremely li..