Classicly Collection of Books

The fables of Phaedrus

Anonymous

Aesop 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. Bigelow

The 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 Hopkins

The 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 Childers

A 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 ..

The Swiss Family Robinson

Johann David Wyss

The Swiss Family Robinson is a novel by Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia...

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman written by Margaret Fuller Ossoli...

Jokes For All Occasions

Anonymous

The ways of telling a story are as many as the tellers themselves. It is impossible to lay down precise rules by which any one may perfect himself in the art, but it is possible to offer suggestions b..

Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar

C. A. Toledano

With the best intention of justifying Messrs. PITMAN'S confidence in entrusting me with the compilation of a Spanish Grammar to form part of the series of "Commercial Grammars," I set to work to produ..