Classicly Collection of Books

Love at Second Sight

Ada Leverson

Love at Second Sight is a fiction humorous fiction novel written by Ada Esther Leverson was a British writer who is known for her friendship with Oscar Wilde and for her work as a witty novelist .In t..

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 04

Saint-Simon

The Duc de Coislin died about this time. I have related in its proper place an adventure that happened to him and his brother, the Chevalier de Coislin: now I will say something more of the Duke. He w..

The Owl and the Pussycat

Edward Lear

 The Owl and the Pussycat is a famous nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1871. Its most notable feature is the introduction of the runcible spoon.    ..

Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793

Charles Brockden Brown

Arthur Mervyn is a novel written by Charles Brockden Brown and published in 1799. It was one of Brown's more popular novels, and is in many ways representative of Brown's dark, gothic style and subjec..

Rough and Tumble Engineering

James H. Maggard

In placing this book before the public the author wishes it understood that it is not his intention to produce a scientific work on engineering. Such a book would be valuable only to engineers of larg..

The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2)

Ida Husted Harper

Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she col..

The Complete Book of Cheese

Robert Carlton Brown

 Cheese market day in a town in the north of Holland. All the cheese-fanciers are out, thumping the cannon-ball Edams and the millstone Goudas with their bare red knuckles, plugging in with a hol..

The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1

Burton Egbert Stevenson

Burton Egbert Stevenson was an American author, anthologist, and librarian. He was born in Chillicothe, Ohio on 9 November 1872, and attended Princeton University 1890–1893. He married Elizabeth Shepa..