Classicly Collection of Books

King Solomon's Mines

H. Rider Haggard

King Solomon's Mines is a popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers le..

Les Caves du Vatican

André Gide

Les Caves du Vatican is a French fiction novel written by André Gide, a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist m..

Mare nostrum

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Mare nostrum is a Spanish fiction work by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, a journalist, politician and best-selling Spanish novelist in various genres whose most widespread and lasting fame in the English-spea..

Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca

Homer

It has long been the opinion of many of the more progressive teachers of the United States that, next to Herakles, Odysseus is the hero closest to child-life, and that the stories from the "Odyssey" a..

Sonetos

Antero de Quental

Sonetos is a collection of Portuguese poetry written by Antero Tarquínio de Quental, a Portuguese poet, philosopher and writer, whose works became a milestone in the Portuguese language, alongside th..

The Brother Clerks

Mary Ashley Townsend

The Brother Clerks is a tale of New-Orleans written by Mary Ashley Townsend was an American poet and writer...

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - The Book of the Spiritual Man

Patañjali

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, less than ten pages of large type in the original. Yet they contain the essence of practical wisdom, set forth in admirable order and ..

A Popular History of the Art of Music

W. S. B. Mathews

Preface by W.S.B. Mathews: I have here endeavored to provide a readable account of the entire history of the art of music, within the compass of a single small volume, and to treat the luxuriant and m..