Classicly Collection of Books

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It is one of several plays written by Shakespeare based on true events from Ro..

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatizes the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek p..

North and South

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

North and South is a social novel published in 1855 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. With Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for tel..

The Body-Snatcher

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson's short story The Body-Snatcher (1884) is the tale of MacFarlane and Fettes, a pair of "resurrection men," or body-snatchers - unsavory types who secretly disinter fresh corpses..

The Phantom Rickshaw

Rudyard Kipling

The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales (1888) is a collection of haunting tales by Rudyard Kipling. The celebrated Nobel prize winner wrote this collection while living in British controlled Indi..

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans..

Heidi

Johanna Spyri

Heidi is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning and Heidi: How She Used What She ..

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

The Jungle Book is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is th..