Classicly Books
The Daemon of the World
Percy Bysshe Shelley"The Daemon of the World" is a poem collection written by Percy Bysshe Shelley,who was one of the major English Romantic poets, widely regarded as one of the finest lyric and philosophical..
The Seigneurs of Old Canada - A Chronicle of New World Feudalism
William Bennett MunroWhat would history be without the picturesque annals of the Gallic race? This is a question which the serious student may well ask himself as he works his way through the chronicles of a dozen centuri..
Their Silver Wedding Journey
William Dean HowellsIt was then a magazine of a new sort, which his business partner had imagined in such leisure as the management of a newspaper syndicate afforded him, and had always thought of getting March to edit. ..
The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
Cuthbert BedeIF you will refer to the unpublished volume of Burke's Landed Gentry, and turn to letter G, article "GREEN," you will see that the Verdant Greens are a family of some respectability and of considerabl..
The Landlord at Lion's Head
William Dean HowellsIn those dim recesses of the consciousness where things have their beginning, if ever things have a beginning, I suppose the origin of this novel may be traced to a fact of a fortnight's sojourn on th..
Vignettes Of San Francisco
Almira BaileyIn the same way that the poets have loved Rome and made their pilgrimages there—as good Moslems travel toward Mecca, so there are some of us who have come to San Francisco. Then when we arrive and fin..
The Vigilance Committee of 1856
James O'MearaMany accounts of the Vigilance Committee of San Francisco have been published, but all of them, so far as I have seen, were from the pen of members of that organization, or else from persons who favor..
San Francisco During the Eventful Days of April 1906
James B. StetsonAs the earthquake and the great fire in San Francisco in the year 1906 were events of such unusual interest, and realizing how faulty is man's memory after time passes, I have here jotted down a few i..