Classicly Books
Seven Little Australians
Ethel Sybil TurnerIf you imagine you are going to read of model children, with perhaps; a naughtily inclined one to point a moral, you had better lay down the book immediately and betake yourself to 'Sandford and Merto..
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns
Arnold BennettIn the Five Towns the following history is related by those who know it as something side-splittingly funny—as one of the best jokes that ever occurred in a district devoted to jokes. And I, too, have..
When Egypt Went Broke - A Novel
Holman DayTasper Britt arose in the gray dawn, as usual. Some fishermen, seeking bait, stay up late and “jack” angleworms with a bull's-eye light. The big worms are abroad on the soil under cover of the darknes..
Memoir of John Lothrop Motley
Oliver Wendell HolmesThe Memoir here given to the public is based on a biographical sketch prepared by the writer at the request of the Massachusetts Historical Society for its Proceedings. The questions involving controv..
Observations By Mr. Dooley
Finley Peter Dunne"Hogan tells me that wan iv th' first things man done afther he'd larned to kill his neighborin' animals, an' make a meal iv wan part iv thim an' a vest iv another, was to begin to mannyfacther lithra..
A Day in Old Athens
William Stearns DavisThis little book tries to describe what an intelligent person would see and hear in ancient Athens, if by some legerdemain he were translated to the fourth century B.C. and conducted about the city un..
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
George BerkeleyWhat I here make public has, after a long and scrupulous inquiry, seemed to me evidently true and not unuseful to be known--particularly to those who are tainted with Scepticism, or want a demonstrati..
Autour de la Lune
Jules VernePendant le cours de l'année 186., le monde entier fut singulièrement ému par une tentative scientifique sans précédents dans les annales de la science. Les membres du Gun-Club, cercle d'artilleurs fon..