Classicly Collection of Books

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), first published in three volumes in 1860 by William Blackwood. The first American edition was published by Harper & Brothers, Pub..

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter (1850) is Nathaniel Hawthorne's romantic novel set in 17th-century Puritan Boston. It is the story of Hester Prynne, an adulteress who struggles to create a new life of dignity and ..

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was published in 1920. Taking its title from a line of Rupert Brooke's poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality o..

Twelve Men

Theodore Dreiser

Although world-famous for his novels Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, Theodore Dreiser was also highly accomplished in journalism, autobiography, and travel writing. In 1919, having recently accepte..

Army Life in a Black Regiment

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Army Life in a Black Regiment is biographical work by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered in..

Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass, a Slave

Frederick Douglass

Excerpts from the author of the book Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass, a Slave written by himself.In the first narrative of my experience in slavery, written nearly forty years ago, and i..

Mary Barton

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester between 1839 and 1842, and deals with the difficulties faced b..

Swann's Way

Marcel Proust

Swann’s Way is one of seven books that comprise In Search of Lost Time, unique in fiction for its sustained fullness of thought and richness of characterization. Though In Search of Lost Time is satur..