Classicly Collection of Books

Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home

Bayard Taylor

Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home is a collection of short stories written by Bayard Taylor, an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat. The Stories in ..

Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One

Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts into a prominent family with strong ties to its community. THE verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphat..

The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories

Kate Chopin

The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggl..

The Moon and Sixpence

W. Somerset Maugham

This Maugham novel is based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told by the narrator as he gradually comes to know the main character Charles Strickland, a middle aged stock broker. ..

The Lobster Fishery of Maine

John N. Cobb

For some years past the condition of the lobster fishery of New England has excited the earnest attention of all interested in the preservation of one of the most valuable crustaceans of our country. ..

The Problem of Cell 13

Jacques Futrelle

The Problem of Cell 13 is a short story by Jacques Futrelle. It was first published in 1905 and later collected in The Thinking Machine, which was featured in crime writer H. R. F. Keating's list of t..

De val van Antwerpen (october 1914)

Jozef Muls

Tegen het einde van Juli 1914 ging eenieder gedrukt onder de hevige spanning die over heel Europa was gekomen. Men voelde het naderen van de verschrikkelijke orkaan die ging losbarsten. Het was ontste..

Sea Fever

John Masefield

John Edward Masefield OM was an English poet and writer and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels The Midnight Folk and The..