Classicly Collection of Books

Personality Plus - Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock

Edna Ferber

Personality Plus: Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock is a fiction novel written by Edna Ferber...

Pushing to the Front

Orison Swett Marden

Pushing to the Front from Orison Swett Marden. American spiritual author in the New Thought Movement (1850-1924)...

The Railway Children

Edith Nesbit

The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in The London Magazine during 1905 and first published in book form in 1906. It has been adapted for the screen several..

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you've ever wondered at the expression "an albatross around one's neck," it comes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The albatross is understood to mean the spirit of C..

Stories from Pentamerone

Giambattista Basile

The collection of folk-tales known as Il Pentamerone was first published at Naples and in the Neopolitan dialect, by Giambattista Basile, Conte di Torrone, who is believed to have collected them chief..

The Backwoods of Canada

Catharine Parr Traill

AMONG the numerous works on Canada that have been published within the last ten years, with emigration for their leading theme, there are few, if any, that give information regarding the domestic econ..

The Black Moth - A Romance of the XVIIIth Century

Georgette Heyer

The Black Moth is a Georgian era romance novel by the British author Georgette Heyer, set around 1751. Published when Heyer was nineteen, The Black Moth was her debut novel. It was based on a story sh..

The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Thomas De Quincey

Thomas De Quincy's autobiographical tract Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an account, you might have guessed, of the author's struggles and glories with opium. Though he was a brillian..