Classicly Collection of Books

Casey Ryan

B. M. Bower

Casey Ryan is a western story written by Bertha Muzzy Sinclair or Sinclair-Cowan, née Muzzy, best known by her pseudonym B. M. Bower, was an American author who wrote novels, fictional short stories, ..

Phineas Redux

Anthony Trollope

Phineas Finn is the fourth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. At the end of Phineas Finn, the second novel in the series, Phineas had returned to Ireland and married his childhood sweetheart..

The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996

Eric S. Raymond

Eric Steven Raymond, often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. He wrote a gui..

The Scarlet Feather

Houghton Townley

The Scarlet Feather is a families fiction work written by Houghton Townley born in Islington, London, in the third quarter of 1866, the eldest of six sons of Charles Towney, a well-known playwright an..

The Tent on the Beach, and other poems

John Greenleaf Whittier

The Tent on the Beach, and other poems is a collection of American poems written by John Greenleaf Whittier, an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States...

God the Known and God the Unknown

Samuel Butler

God the Known and God the Unknown is a philosophical work by Samuel Butler, the iconoclastic English author of the Utopian satirical novel Erewhon and the semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman The ..

Christmas - A Story

Zona Gale

This is a gentle Christmas story, whose message is that if we didn't already have Christmas, we'd find a way to invent it. It's hard times in Old Trail Town as the Season of Giving approaches. The fac..

The Thames Valley Catastrophe

Grant Allen

It can scarcely be necessary for me to mention, I suppose, at this time of day, that I was one of the earliest and fullest observers of the sad series of events which finally brought about the transfe..