Classicly Collection of Books

Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

Alice in Wonderland-the classic tale of "literary nonsense"-was enjoyed by everyone from the stodgy Queen Victoria to the salacious Oscar Wilde. Images have remained in the zeitgeist since its creatio..

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass is a collection of poems by Walt Whitman, which was self-published in 1855. It has its origins in an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson 10 years earlier titled The Poet, which called..

Married Love

Marie Carmichael Stopes

Married Love, or Love in Marriage by Dr. Marie Carmichael Stopes was published in March 1918 in England, was immediately sensational, sold out quickly, and was banned by the US Customs Service as "obs..

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

When Henry Miller was asked if there could be a sequel to Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, he replied "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." His seemingly odd response suggests the pure American-ness of Twa..

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

Napoleon read it. As did General MacArthur, Mao Tse-tung, and Tony Soprano. But Sun Tzu's Art of War is more than the most influential and famous book on military strategy: it's also a great everyday ..

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto is attributed to both Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, though Marx gets most of the credit for writing one of the world's most politically significant documents. It details the ..

The Kama Sutra of Vatsayayana

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The Kama Sutra was like Maxim magazine for ancient Hindus. In this version we not only feature the classic Indian sex manual, but the version translated by everyone's favorite British Knight, Sir Rich..

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

This is the classic tale of Boy meets Girl, Boy loses Girl, Boy runs off with Huckleberry Finn. The characters in Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer are composites of his actual childhood friends, throw..