Classicly Collection of Books

Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Complete

Gilbert Parker

These stories made the collection published eventually under the title of Cumner’s Son, in 1910. They were thus kept for nearly twenty years without being given to the public in book form. In 1910 I d..

Henrik Ibsen - Biography

Edmund Gosse

Numerous and varied as have been the analyses of Ibsen's works published, in all languages, since the completion of his writings, there exists no biographical study which brings together, on a general..

The Betrothed

Alessandro Manzoni

The Betrothed is an Italian historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, first published in 1827, in three volumes. It has been called the most famous and widely read novel in the Italian language. ..

The Life of Duty

H. J. Wilmot-Buxton

When Dante had written his immortal poems on Hell and Purgatory, the people of Italy used to shrink back from him with awe, and whisper, "see the man who has looked upon Hell." To-day we can in fancy ..

Amalia ystävämme

Robert Kiljander

Amalia ystävämme is a Finnish drama written by Robert Kiljander...

Biblia Sacra Vulgata - Psalmi XXII

Anonymous

Psalm 22 appears as Psalm 23 in modern English translations of the Bible. - Psalmi XXII Bibliae Sacrae Vulgatae, recitatus in lingua Latina. ..

Bouvard and Pécuchet - A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, part 1

Gustave Flaubert

As there were thirty-three degrees of heat the Boulevard Bourdon was absolutely deserted. Farther down, the Canal St. Martin, confined by two locks, showed in a straight line its water black as ink. I..

Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East

A. W. Kinglake

The two frontier towns are less than a cannon-shot distant, and yet their people hold no communion.  The Hungarian on the north, and the Turk and Servian on the southern side of the Save are as m..