Classicly Collection of Books

The Last Man

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic sci-fi novel published in 1826. It portrays a future ravaged by plague and famine in which technology, religion and hope are wiped away. Shelley is the first..

Venus in Furs

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Venus in Furs is a novella by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the best known of his works. The novel was to be part of an epic series that Sacher-Masoch envisioned called Legacy of ..

A Man of the People - A Drama of Abraham Lincoln

Thomas Dixon

A Man of the People: A Drama of Abraham Lincoln is written by Thomas Dixon. While the popular conception of Lincoln as the Liberator of the Slave is true historically, there is a deeper view of his li..

Chéri

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Chéri is a novel by Colette published in French in 1920. The title character's true name is Fred Peloux, but he is known as Chéri to almost everyone, except, usually, to his wife. This novel was follo..

English Fairy Tales

Joseph Jacobs

A Collection of fairy tales from England, collected, edited, and chosen by Joseph Jacobs. This is a Green Bird Publication of a quality soft cover book, suitable for libraries, home libraries, gifts, ..

Otto of the Silver Hand

Howard Pyle

Otto of the Silver Hand is a children's novel about the Dark Ages written and illustrated by Howard Pyle. It was first published in 1888 by Charles Scribner's Sons. The story of little Otto, a ge..

The Fireside Chats

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 – 1945) was the 32nd President of the United States. He led his country and the world during a time of massive economic crisis and war. As the only American president e..

The Mind in the Making - The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform

James Harvey Robinson

This is an essay—not a treatise—on the most important of all matters of human concern. Although it has cost its author a great deal more thought and labor than will be apparent, it falls, in his estim..