Classicly Collection of Books

The Appetite of Tyranny

G. K. Chesterton

The Appetite of Tyranny: Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian is a historic work written by G.K. Chesterton. ..

The National Nursery Book

Various Authors

The National Nursery Book with 120 illustrations contains stories like Red Riding-Hood, Puss-in-boots, Mother Hubbard, Cock Robin's death, Jack and the bean-stalk, Tom Thumb, Cinderella, The thre..

A Treasury of Eskimo Tales

Clara Kern Bayliss

A Treasury of Eskimo TalesBook by Clara Kern BaylissFirst published in 1922. By the author of "A Treasury of Indian Tales," "Philippine Folk Tales," etc. The Central Eskimo live away up north in that ..

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers

John Burroughs

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers is children book written by John Burroughs with chapters like Bird enemies, The Tragedies of the Nests, Bees, An Idyl of the Honey-Bee, The Pasto..

Mrs. Warren's Profession

George Bernard Shaw

Mrs. Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902. The play is about a former prostitute, now a madam, who attempts to come to terms with..

Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

Samuel Richardson

Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, first published in 1740. It tells the story of a 15-year-old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose employer, M..

Sir Percy Leads the Band

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

First published in 1936, Sir Percy Leads the Band is (chronologically) the second of the Scarlet Pimpernel series by Baroness Orczy. The novel is set in January and February 1793 and follows on from t..

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

H. P. Lovecraft

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Begun probably in the autumn of 1926, the draft was completed on January 22, 1927 and it remained unrevised and unpub..