Classicly Collection of Books

Urban Sketches

Bret Harte

Urban Sketches is an American short stories collection written by Francis Brett Hart, known as Bret Harte, was an American short-story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featu..

50 Bab Ballads, vol 1

W. S. Gilbert

The Bab Ballads is a humorous poems collection written by Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur ..

A Journey from This World to the Next

Henry Fielding

The narrator dies in the first sentence. Through relating his travels in the afterlife, Henry Fielding, author of Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews, gently satirizes life here on earth. (Summary by Denny S..

Dream Days

Kenneth Grahame

Dream Days is a collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame. A sequel to Grahame's 1895 collection The Golden Age (some of its selections feature the sam..

How to Become an Engineer

Francis W. Doughty

How to Become an Engineer is book by Francis W. Doughty, an American screenwriter and novelist. Doughty held unorthodox views about the age of humans. It contains Full Instructions How to Proceed in O..

Molly Bawn

The Duchess

Molly Bawn is an 1878 novel by the Irish writer Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. In 1916 it was adapted into a silent film of the same title starring Alma Taylor. The novel is the origin of the expression "..

ProHistoire de la Nouvelle-France

Marc Lescarbot

Histoire de la Nouvelle-France is a discovery exploration work written by Marc Lescarbot, a French author, poet and lawyer. He is best known for his Histoire de la Nouvelle-France, based on his expedi..

The Patient Observer and His Friends

Simeon Strunsky

The Patient Observer and His Friends is an essays collection written by Simeon Strunsky, a Russian-born Jewish American essayist and editorialist. He is best remembered as a prominent editorialis..