Classicly Collection of Books

Trilby

George Du Maurier

Trilby is a novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time. Trilby O'Ferrall, the novel's heroine, is a half-Irish girl working in Paris as an artists' model and laundress; ..

A Modern Instance

William Dean Howells

A Modern Instance is a realistic novel written by William Dean Howells. The novel is about the deterioration of a once loving marriage under the influence of capitalistic greed. It is the first Americ..

Ecce Homo

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is is the last original book written by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche before his final years of insanity that lasted until his death in 1900. It was written in 18..

Poems Every Child Should Know

Mary E. Burt

Is this another collection of stupid poems that children cannot use? Will they look hopelessly through this volume for poems that suit them? Will they say despairingly, "This is too long," and "That i..

The Coming Race

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The Coming Race is a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published anonymously in 1871. It has also been published as Vril, the Power of the Coming Race. Some readers have believed the account of a superio..

A Charmed Life

Richard Harding Davis

A Charmed Life is a fictional short story written by Richard Harding Davis. The main room of the house was now in darkness, but a smaller room adjoining it was lit by candles, and by a tiny ..

Les Chants de Maldoror

comte de Lautréamont

Les Chants de Maldoror is a poetic novel (or a long prose poem) consisting of six cantos. It was written between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautreamont, the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse. Man..

Hobson's Choice - A Lancashire Comedy

Harold Brighouse

Hobson's Choice is a play by Harold Brighouse, the title taken from the popular expression, Hobson's choice—meaning no choice at all. The story is set in Salford in 1880. It bears many resemblances to..