Classicly Books
Five Thousand an Hour - How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress
George Randolph ChesterAbout the time the winner of the Baltimore Handicap flashed under the wire, Johnny Gamble started to tear up a bundle of nice pink tickets on Lady S. Just then Ashley Loring came by swiftly in the dir..
The English Constitution
Walter BagehotThe English Constitution is an extremely accessible work of political and legal science by Walter Bagehot, first published in serialized form in 1865-7. While some of his observations on the English s..
My Young Alcides - A Faded Photograph
Charlotte M. YongeIdeas have a tyrannous power of insisting on being worked out, even when one fears they may be leading in a track already worthily preoccupied. But the Hercules myth did not seem to me to be like one ..
Physics and Politics
Walter BagehotOne peculiarity of this age is the sudden acquisition of much physical knowledge. There is scarcely a department of science or art which is the same, or at all the same, as it was fifty years ago. A n..
Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby
Kathleen Thompson NorrisAlmost all the women that she knew admitted unhappiness of one sort or another, and discussed their domestic troubles freely. Margaret had never sunk to that; it would not even have been a relief to a..
Marie; a story of Russian love
Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinAlexander Pushkin, the most distinguished poet of Russia, was born at Saint Petersburg, 1799. When only twenty-one years of age he entered the civil service in the department of foreign affairs. Lord ..
Organic Gardener's Composting
Steve SolomonThe art and science of composting is presented in a humorous and readable manner from the basic elements to the in-depth science. An entire chapter is devoted to composting with red worms (vermicultur..
Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl
Horace W. C. NewteEveryone at Melkbridge knew the Devitts: they lived in the new, pretentious-looking house, standing on the right, a few minutes after one left the town by the Bathminster road. It was a blustering, st..