Classicly Books
Modern Essays and Stories
Frederick Houk LawFor the advantage of those teachers who wish to combine the teaching of the essay and of the short story, and who may not have at hand any suitable collection of short stories, the book includes not o..
Tied Up for Tombstone
W. C. TuttleSudden-like I wakes, and believe me she’s a rude awakening. Somebody kicks the chair out from under me, and proceeds to knead my abdomen with their knees, toes, fingers, thumbs and head. When that par..
Coasting Bohemia
J. Comyns CarrThe papers which compose this volume make no claim to any sort of ordered plan in their composition. They reflect in some measure the varied activities of a life that has been passed in close associat..
Portrait of a Man with Red Hair
Hugh WalpoleThe only companions, he reflected, that he had taken with him on this journey were his etchings, kinder to him, more intimate with him, rewarding him with more affection than any human being. His seve..
Stepping Westward
M. E. FrancisMrs Roberts assented, after much murmuring and a good deal of sarcastic comment on the “neshness” of the rising generation. There was never no talk of newralgy or oldralgy neither when she was a..
The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair
Upton SinclairAll through my seventy-one years of writing life—I started at thirteen—I have had from my readers suggestions that I should tell my own story. I put myself in the position of a veteran of many campaig..
1914
John OxenhamThey had been neighbours now for close on ten years and close friends for nine and a half of them. Noel and Honor were mischievous young things of eight when the Dares took The Red House, and in their..
A Lecture on Stained Glass
Robert Anning BellThe practical function of stained glass is comparable with that of mosaic. Mosaic is an enrichment of the shadow. Buildings designed for mosaic usually have quite small windows, low down in the big do..