Classicly Collection of Books

Man in the Iron Mask (an Essay)

Alexandre Dumas

This is the essay entitled The Man in the Iron Mask, not the novel “The Man in the Iron Mask”. For nearly one hundred years this curious problem has exercised the imagination of writers of fiction—and..

The Confessions

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The writer, composer and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) was a citizen of Geneva before Switzerland even existed. He's a major contributor to the Romantic movement, and one of the most..

The Human Machine

Arnold Bennett

The Human Machine is a book on etiquette written by Arnold Bennett, an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as the theatre, journalism, propagan..

The Prisoner of Zenda

Anthony Hope

The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope, is an adventure novel in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within ..

The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, first published in 1922, is a book in the series about the Scarlet Pimpernel's adventures by Baroness Orczy...

From the Earth to the Moon

Jules Verne

Like much classic science fiction and fantasy writing, Jules Verne's novel From the Earth to the Moon seems comically anachronistic: a group of Civil War vets, who are still wistful about the glories ..

Der tolle Mensch

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Der tolle Mensch by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche...

More William

Richmal Crompton

More William is the second William collection in the much acclaimed Just William series by Richmal Crompton. It is a sequel to the book Just William. The book was first published in 1922, with a curre..