Classicly Collection of Books

The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches

David Starr Jordan

The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches is a collection of essays written by David Starr Jordan, an American ichthyologist, educator, eugenicist, and peace activist. He was president ..

The World English Bible (WEB) - Song of Solomon

Anonymous

The Song of Songs is the twenty-second book of The Bible and was authored by Solomon. In some translations, this book is entitled The Song of Solomon. It is also known as The Best Song.Replete with me..

Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship; Or, The Naval Terror of the Seas

Victor Appleton

Tom Swift is an inventor, and these are his adventures. The locale is the little town of Shopton in upstate New York, near Lake Carlopa. While some of Tom's inventions are not well-founded in a scient..

Against Home Rule (1912)

S. Rosenbaum

This book, for which I have been asked to write a short preface, presents the case against Home Rule for Ireland. The articles are written by men who not only have a complete grasp of the subjects upo..

Apocolocyntosis

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Apocolocyntosis is a humorous short non-fiction work by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and—in one work—satirist of the Silver Age of Latin literature...

Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places

Archibald Forbes

Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places is a memoir by Archibald Forbes was a Scottish war correspondent. Excerpts:The interval between the declaration of the Franco-German war of 1870-71, and th..

Father and Son - A Study of Two Temperaments

Edmund Gosse

Father and Son is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled "a study of two temperaments." The book describes Edmund's early years in an exceptionally devout Plymouth Brethren home...

Impressions of Theophrastus Such

George Eliot

Impressions of Theophrastus Such is a work of fiction by George Eliot, first published in 1879. It was Eliot's last published writing and her most experimental, taking the form of a series of literary..