Classicly Collection of Books

The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions

James Runciman

All the statistics and formal statements published about drink are no doubt impressive enough to those who have the eye for that kind of thing; but, to most of us, the word "million" means nothing at ..

Lapsia

Teuvo Pakkala

Lapsia is a Finnish fiction work by Teuvo Pakkala, a playwright, reporter, linguist and teacher. Pakkala is considered to be one of the realists of the 1880s and 1890s, and he is also often called a n..

Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798)

Wordsworth and Coleridge

Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the..

Snake and Sword - A Novel

Snake and Sword: A Novel is a fiction work of Percival Christopher Wren, an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924, involvin..

The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 09, September, 1878

Various Authors

The Atlanta Republican says that, in proportion to their means, the colored people of that city are paying a much heavier tax than the whites, while their school facilities are far inferior. It also a..

A String of Pearls

Unknown

The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 1846 with a serialized telling of the story titled “The String ..

A Tale of Three Lions

H. Rider Haggard

Taking place in the heart of Africa, “The Tale of Three Lions” is one more thrilling adventure from the eventful life of old hunter Quatermain, the famous hero of “King Solomons Mines”. This time, tho..

Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet - An Autobiography

Charles Kingsley

The tract appended to this preface has been chosen to accompany this reprint of Alton Locke in order to illustrate, from another side, a distinct period in the life of Charles Kingsley, which stands o..