Classicly Collection of Books

Abraham Lincoln and the Union - A Chronicle of the Embattled North

Nathaniel W. Stephenson

In spite of a lapse of sixty years, the historian who attempts to portray the era of Lincoln is still faced with almost impossible demands and still confronted with arbitrary points of view. It is out..

Adrift in the Wilds

Edward S. Ellis

One beautiful misummer night in 18— a large, heavily laden steamer was making her way swiftly up the Pacific coast, in the direction of San Francisco. She was opposite the California shore, only a day..

Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks

Horatio Alger Jr.

Ragged Dick was contributed as a serial story to the pages of the Schoolmate, a well-known juvenile magazine, during the year 1867. While in course of publication, it was received with so many evidenc..

The Best British Short Stories of 1922

Anonymous

When Edward J. O'Brien asked me to cooperate with him in choosing each year's best English short stories, to be published as a companion volume to his annual selection of the best American short stori..

A History of English Literature

Robert Huntington Fletcher

This book aims to provide a general manual of English Literature for students in colleges and universities and others beyond the high-school age. The first purposes of every such book must be to outli..

The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti

John Addington Symonds

The Buonarroti Simoni, to whom Michelangelo belonged, were a Florentine family of ancient burgher nobility. Their arms appear to have been originally "azure two bends or." To this coat was added "a la..

The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle

Annie Fellows Johnston

The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle is a short story for children written by Annie Fellows Johnston whose other writings includes "The Little Colonel" Series, "Big Brother," "The St..

The Best American Humorous Short Stories

H. C. Bunner

This volume does not aim to contain all the best American humorous short stories there are many other stories equally as good, I suppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range of American..