Classicly Collection of Books

Carmilla

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula by 26 years. First published in 1872, it ..

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee - A Bee Keeper's Manual

L. L. Langstroth

This Treatise on the Hive and the Honey-Bee, is respectfully submitted by the Author, to the candid consideration of those who are interested in the culture of the most useful as well as wonderful Ins..

The Alchemist

Ben Jonson

The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge ..

The Life of the Bee

Maurice Maeterlinck

IT is not my intention to write a treatise on apiculture, or on practical bee-keeping. Excellent works of the kind abound in all civilised countries, and it were useless to attempt another. France has..

A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House, written two years after The Pillars of Society, was the first of Ibsen's plays to create a sensation and is now perhaps his most famous play, and required reading in many secondary sch..

Gladius Dei; Schwere Stunde

Thomas Mann

Gladius Dei; Schwere Stunde  is a short story collection written by Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Pr..

Oroonoko - or, the Royal Slave

Aphra Behn

Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn, published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two other fictions later that year.Aphra Behn was the first woman w..

Orthodoxy

With his typical wit and erudition Chesterton presents Christianity as the best answer to a series of interlocking riddles that live in every human heart. Chesterton considered this book a companion t..