Classicly Books
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott FitzgeraldThis 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 DreiserAlthough 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 HigginsonArmy 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 DouglassExcerpts 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 GaskellMary 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 ProustSwann’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..
The American Prejudice Against Color
William G. AllenExcerpts from the author William G. Allen's introduction of the book The American Prejudice Against Color.Many persons having suggested that it would greatly subserve the Anti-slavery Cause in th..
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Henry FieldingThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is both a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was fi..