Classicly Collection of Books

The Philosophy of Despair

David Starr Jordan

Today is your day and mine, the only day we have, the day in which we play our part. What our part may signify in the great whole, we may not understand, but we are here to play it, and now is our tim..

A Publisher and His Friends

Samuel Smiles

A Publisher and His Friends, Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843. Preface from the book:When my Grandfather's Memoirs were publ..

Folkways

William Graham Sumner

Folkways, A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals. Preface by the author:In 1899 I began to write out a text-book of sociology from material which I had u..

La Chartreuse De Parme

Stendhal

Le 15 mai 1796, le général Bonaparte fit son entrée dans Milan à la tête de cette jeune armée qui venait de passer le pont de Lodi, et d’apprendre au monde qu’après tant de siècles César et Alexandre ..

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

George Washington Plunkitt

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County cou..

Richard II

William Shakespeare

The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, commonly called Richard II, is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1595. The play spans only the la..

Sonnets of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s sonnets comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. (Summary from wikipedia.org)..

The Beginner's American History

D. H. Montgomery

This little book is intended by the writer as an introduction to his larger work entitled The Leading Facts of American History. It is in no sense an abridgment of the larger history, but is practical..