Classicly Collection of Books

The Composition of Indian Geographical Names

J. Hammond Trumbull

The Composition of Indian Geographical Names Illustrated from the Algonkin Languages. Not that personal or proper names, in any language, were originally mere arbitrary sounds, devoid of meaning...

The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1

Demosthenes

Demosthenes was a Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide an insight into the politics ..

The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe

Perhaps Edgar Allen Poe's most famous poem, the "Raven" is a macabre exploration of a man, his memories of Lenore, and the black bird that interrupts his studies on a dark December night, with tap-tap..

Eline Vere - Een Haagsche roman

Louis Couperus

Eline Vere is an 1889 novel by the Dutch writer Louis Couperus. It was adapted into the 1991 film Eline Vere, directed by Harry Kümel. Couperus wrote Eline Vere in the house at Surinamestraat 20, The ..

John Knox and the Reformation

Andrew Lang

In this brief Life of Knox I have tried, as much as I may, to get behind Tradition, which has so deeply affected even modern histories of the Scottish Reformation, and even recent Biographies of the R..

Skylark Three

E. E. Smith

Skylark Three is a science fiction novel by American writer E. E. Smith, the second in his Skylark series. Originally serialized through the Amazing Stories magazine in 1930, it was first collected in..

The Children of the King - A Tale of Southern Italy

F. Marion Crawford

Then the men forward will bestir themselves and presently a red glow rises and flickers and paints what it touches, with its own colours. The dry wood crackles and flares on the brick and mortar heart..

The Lost Valley of Iskander

Robert E. Howard

"The Lost Valley of Iskander" is an El Borak short story by Robert E. Howard. It was not published within Howard's lifetime, the first publication was in the FAX Collector's Editions hardback The Lost..