Classicly Collection of Books

Ben-Hur - A tale of the Christ

Lew Wallace

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century". It became..

No Orchids for Miss Blandish

James Hadley Chase

No Orchids For Miss Blandish is a 1939 crime novel by the British writer James Hadley Chase. The novel was influenced by the American crime writer James M. Cain and the stories in the pulp magazine Bl..

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

John Muir

The only fire for the whole house was the kitchen stove, with a fire box about eighteen inches long and eight inches wide and deep,- scant space for three or four small sticks, around which in hard ze..

Elsie's Motherhood

Martha Finley

Elsie's Motherhood is a juvenile fiction novel written by Martha Finley, an American teacher and author of numerous works for children, the best known being the 28-volume Elsie Dinsmore series which w..

Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical

C. L. Hunter

Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical Illustrating Principally the Revolutionary Period of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln and Adjoining Counties, Accompanied with Miscellaneous ..

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Stephen Leacock

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literat..

Maintaining Health

R. L. Alsaker

Writings on hygiene and health have been accessible for centuries, but never before have books and magazines on these subjects been as numerous as they are today. Most of the information is so general..

A Text-Book of the History of Painting

John Charles Van Dyke

The object of this series of text-books is to provide concise teachable histories of art for class-room use in schools and colleges. The limited time given to the study of art in the average education..