Classicly Collection of Books

Rosmersholm

Henrik Ibsen

Rosmersholm is a play written in 1886 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In the estimation of many critics the piece is Ibsen's masterwork, only equalled by The Wild Duck of 1884...

Steam, Its Generation and Use

Anonymous

While the time of man’s first knowledge and use of the expansive force of the vapor of water is unknown, records show that such knowledge existed earlier than 150 B. C. In a treatise of about that tim..

The Adventures of Arabella

Charlotte Lennox

The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella is a novel written by Charlotte Lennox imitating and parodying the ideas of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. Published in 1752, two years after she ..

The Children of the New Forest

Frederick Marryat

The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is set in the time of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth...

The Goose Girl

Harold MacGrath

The Goose Girl is a children's novel written by Harold MacGrath, an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter...

Wild Animals I Have Known

Ernest Thompson

Wild Animals I Have Known is an 1898 book by naturalist and author Ernest Thompson Seton. The first entry in a new genre of realistic wild-animal fiction, Seton's first collection of short stories qui..

Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson

Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life written by Sherwood Anderson, an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he ro..

Caligula

Suetonius

Caligula was one of the Twelve Caesars who are illuminated in the great work by Suetonius. If you want to read about one of the "baddies," that is, one of the most deranged leaders in the history of H..