Classicly Books
The Crown of Life
George GissingAmid the throng of suburban arrivals volleyed forth from Waterloo Station on a May morning in the year '86, moved a slim, dark, absent-looking young man of one-and-twenty, whose name was Piers Otway. ..
Sylvia's Lovers
Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellThe novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven. Sylvia Robson lives with her parents on a farm, and is loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in ..
The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories
Edith WhartonThe Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories is a collection of American short stories written by Edith Wharton, who was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer. Wharton..
Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune
Victor AppletonTom only smiled confidently, and went on: "Well, Dad, all you'll have to do will be to wait and see. It isn't going to be easy--I grant that. In fact, I've run up against more snags, the little way I'..
Biographies of Working Men
Grant Allen"Biographies of Working Men" is a volume containing brief biographies of seven men from working class backgrounds who went on to excel in their chosen fields. They are: Thomas Telford, George Stephens..
Precipitations
Evelyn ScottEvelyn Ruth Scott AO was an Indigenous Australian social activist and educator. She began working in the Townsville Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advancement League in the 1960s. She chaired t..
The Secret Passage
Fergus HumeExcellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: "That painstakingly ingenious person, Fergus Hume, has devised another of his hide..
The A B C of Mining - A Handbook for Prospectors
Charles A. BrambleOwing to recent rich discoveries in more than one mining field, hundreds of shrewd, intelligent men without experience in prospecting are turning their attention to that arduous pursuit—to such this b..