Classicly Books
Histoire des voyages de Scarmentado
VoltaireLe prospectus des frères Cramer, pour leur édition de 1756, comprend les trois romans Les deux consolés, Histoire des voyages de Scarmentado, Le songe de Platon, au nombre des morceaux neufs qu'ils al..
An African Millionaire
Grant AllenMy name is Seymour Wilbraham Wentworth. I am brother-in-law and secretary to Sir Charles Vandrift, the South African millionaire and famous financier. Many years ago, when Charlie Vandrift was a small..
Mr. Achilles
Jennette LeeAchilles Alexandrakis was arranging the fruit on his stall in front of his little shop on Clark Street. It was a clear, breezy morning, cool for October, but not cold enough to endanger the fruit that..
The Landloper - The Romance of a Man on Foot
Holman DayThe man who called himself Walker Farr plodded down the dusty stretches of a country road. He moved leisurely. He neither slouched like a vagabond nor did he swing with a stride which indicated that h..
The Story of Electricity
John MunroThe purpose of this little book is to present the essential facts of electrical science in a popular and interesting way, as befits the scheme of the series to which it belongs. Electrical phenomena h..
The Valley of Silent Men
James Oliver CurwoodBefore the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step who would enter into the mystery and adventu..
The Veiled Lady, and Other Men and Women
Francis Hopkinson SmithThe Veiled Lady, and Other Men and Women is a collection of American short stories written by Francis Hopkinson Smith. This collection of stories has been labelled "The Veiled Lady" as being..
Tom Swift in the City of Gold; Or, Marvelous Adventures Underground
Victor Appleton"Yes, dad, and about three feet high," went on Tom, referring to the letter to make sure. "It's heavy, too, no hollows in it, and these Africans regard it as a god. But that's not the strangest part o..