Classicly Books
A History of English Literature
Robert Huntington FletcherThis 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 SymondsThe 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 JohnstonThe 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. BunnerThis 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..
The fables of Phaedrus
AnonymousAesop is credited with inventing animal fables, but the earliest written versions are by Phaedrus, apparently a slave, who introduced them to Latin literature in the time of Augustus. Many other story..
The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book
William F. BigelowThe articles that are printed in this book made what was in my opinion the most important, the most constructive, series on a single subject that Good Housekeeping has published in the quarter century..
The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons
Ellice HopkinsThe Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons written by Ellice Hopkins. This little book has been written under great physical disabilities, chiefly while wandering about in search of health, and ..
The Riddle of the Sands
Erskine ChildersA WORD about the origin and authorship of this book. In October last (1902), my friend 'Carruthers' visited me in my chambers, and, under a provisional pledge of secrecy, told me frankly the whole of ..