Classicly Collection of Books

Young America Afloat - A Story of Travel and Adventure

Oliver Optic

Outward Bound is the first volume of "A Library of Travel and Adventure in Foreign Lands," and contains the voyage of the Academy Ship "Young America" across the Atlantic. The origin and progress of t..

Contigo Pan y Cebolla

Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza

Manuel María del Pilar Eduardo de Gorostiza y Cepeda was a Mexican Spanish writer, dramatist and diplomat. He was the son of Pedro Fernández de Gorostiza, governor of the port of Veracruz, and the poe..

Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All

Hamilton Wright Mabie

Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People compiled by Hamilton Wright Mabie, an American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer.If ..

The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson,  an American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the fir..

British Borneo

W. H. Treacher

Sir William Hood Treacher KCMG was a British colonial administrator in Borneo and the Straits Settlements. He founded the Anglo Chinese School in Klang on 10 March 1893...

Pearl and Periwinkle

Anna Graetz

Pearl and Periwinkle is a novel for children written by Anna Graetz. Excerpts from the book:But even he would have felt sorry for Miss Hetty this morning. To adopt two children when you know noth..

Pyrrhus, King of Epirus

Jacob Abbott

In respect to the heroes of ancient history, who lived in times antecedent to the period when the regular records of authentic history commence, no reliance can be placed upon the actual verity of the..

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

Samuel Johnson

In this enchanting fable (subtitled The Choice of Life), Rasselas and his retinue burrow their way out of the totalitarian paradise of the Happy Valley in search of that triad of eighteenth-century as..