Classicly Collection of Books

Good Stories for Great Holidays

Frances Jenkins Olcott

Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading.This volume, though intended also for the children's own reading and for reading aloud, ..

India and the Indians

Edward Fenton Elwin

India is really waking up, but she is doing so in her own Indian way. For some years past it has been one of my daily duties to arouse an Indian boy, and I know exactly how an Indian wakes. It is a le..

Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria

William Westgarth

I had long looked forward to one more visit to Victoria, perhaps the last I should expect to make, and the opportunity of the opening of the great Centenary Exhibition at Melbourne on 1st August of th..

The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The Leeds and Skipton railway runs along a deep valley of the Aire; a slow and sluggish stream, compared to the neighbouring river of Wharfe.  Keighley station is on this line of railway, about a..

The Arabian Nights Entertainments — Volume 02

Jonathan Scott

Contents of Volume II.     The Story of the Little Hunch-Back     The Story Told by the Christian Merchant     The Story Told by the Sultan of Casgar's Pur..

The Arabian Nights

Andrew Lang

The Arabian Nights is a collection of Perso-Arabic folk tales and other stories. The collection, or at least certain stories drawn from it (or purporting to be drawn from it), became widely known in t..

The Fire Within

Patricia Wentworth

Dora Amy Elles (15 October 1877[1] – 28 January 1961[2]), who wrote as Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction writer...

Cowper

Goldwin Smith

Cowper is the most important English poet of the period between Pope and the illustrious group headed by Wordsworth, Byron, and Shelley, which arose out of the intellectual ferment of the European Rev..