Classicly Collection of Books

Dick and Brownie

Mabel Quiller-Couch

Dick and Brownie is children's fiction novel written by Mabel Quiller-Couch, an English editor, compiler and children's writer...

Locus Solus

Raymond Roussel

Locus Solus is a 1914 French novel by Raymond Roussel, a French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, and chess enthusiast. Through his novels, poems, and plays he exerted a profound influence on..

Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor

R. D. Blackmore

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is a novel by English author Richard Doddridge Blackmore, published in 1869. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century..

Round the World

Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1919) was an American entrepreneur, businessman, and industrialist of Scottish extraction, known for his role as a major philanthropist. Carnegie's was the classic "rags to ric..

The Bishop's Shadow

I. T. Thurston

The Bishop's Shadow is children's novel written by I. T. Thurston, the author of "Boys of the Central," "A Genuine Lady" etc...

The Elusive Pimpernel

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. A French-language version, translated and adapted by Charlotte and Marie-Louise Des..

Fifty Famous Stories Retold

James Baldwin

Fifty Famous Stories Retold is a collection of short stories collected and edited by James Baldwin, an American novelist, playwright, and activist. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native S..

Lysistrata

Aristophanes

Aristophanes (446 - 386 BC), also known as the "Father" or "Prince" of ancient comedy, was one of ancient Athens' most famous playwrights. Only eleven of his forty plays exist in their entirety, but w..