Classicly Collection of Books

The Best Ghost Stories

Various Authors

Good ghost stories have been told for millennia in some form or another, and no matter how old you are, they never go out of style. This is a collection from 1919 of various ghost stories by a range o..

The Doctor's Dilemma

George Bernard Shaw

The Doctor's Dilemma is a play by George Bernard Shaw first staged in 1906. It is a problem play about the moral dilemmas created by limited medical resources, and the conflicts between the demands of..

The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1

Baron Trenck

Baron Franz von der Trenck was an Austrian soldier. Trenck was born into a military family on 1 January 1711, in Reggio in south Italy, where his father Johann Heinrich Trenck served as an Austrian of..

The Lost Princess of Oz

L. Frank Baum

Who is stealing all the magic in Oz? Dorothy and her friends set out to comb all of Oz, not only for magic stolen from Glinda and the Wizard, but also for the kidnapped princess, Ozma. Along the way, ..

Discourse on the Method of Reasoning

René Descartes

Most philosophers don't get in an immortal tagline like Descartes' "I think therefore I am," but don't go thinking he was all about succinct one-liners, as the title of his most famous work reveals. I..

The Crooked House

Brandon Fleming

The Crooked House is a collection of 30+ mystery & detective stories written by Brandon Fleming. List of stories below.I A STRANGE RIDDLE II THE CROOKED HOUSE III THE ENDLESS GARDEN..

Three Weeks

Elinor Glyn

Three weeks was Elinor Glyn's most popular and most scandalous book, published in 1907, and made into an even more scandalous movie in 1914. The book follows Paul Verdayne, who thinks himself passiona..

An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds

John Higginbottom

The following pages are presented to the medical public with very humble pretensions. It is chiefly with the minor accidents or diseases that they have to do; but I shall not consider that I have labo..