Classicly Collection of Books

The Coral Island - A Tale of the Pacific Ocean

Robert Michael Ballantyne

The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean is a novel written by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. One of the first works of juvenile fiction to feature exclusively juvenile heroes, the story relat..

A Life of William Shakespeare

Sir Sidney Lee

Shakespeare, William, A Life of, by Sidney Lee (1898). The motto of this book would appear to be that which was said (by one of them) to have animated the contributors to the English Dictionary of Nat..

The American Newspaper

Charles Dudley Warner

Our theme for the hour is the American Newspaper. It is a subject in which everybody is interested, and about which it is not polite to say that anybody is not well informed; for, although there are s..

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit, the author of Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, felt passionately that young children should enjoy Shakespeare's great works. She set about to retell his plays in a language that child..

Foundations of World Unity

`Abdu'l-Bahá

Foundations of World Unity is a collection of talks and writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá, dated prior to his death in November 1921, and first published in 1945. The introduction to the 1945 edition is dated ..

Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas

`Abdu'l-Bahá

This book is a reproduction of the Tablets of Abdul-Baha as contained in the archives of the House of Spirituality1 of Bahais of Chicago from the recipients for the purpose of safe preservation in acc..

The Biography of a Grizzly

Ernest Thompson

I first read this little book when I was in the fifth grade, and now more than fifty years later, I still find it fascinating. Ernest Thompson Seton was a man with a concern for nature her creatures a..

Abraham Lincoln - An Horatian Ode

Richard Henry Stoddard

Richard Henry Stoddard was an American critic and poet. Richard Henry Stoddard was born on July 2, 1825, in Hingham, Massachusetts. His father, a sea-captain, was wrecked and lost on one of his voyage..