Classicly Collection of Books

A Dog with a Bad Name

Talbot Baines Reed

A Dog with a Bad Name is a boarding school fiction story written by Talbot Baines Reed, an English writer of boys' fiction who established a genre of school stories that endured into the mid-20th cent..

The Life of Captain James Cook, the Circumnavigator

Arthur Kitson

The Life of Captain James Cook is a biographical work of Captain James Cook written by Arthur Kitson, a British monetary theorist and inventor. Captain James Cook FRS was a British explorer, navi..

Le Robinson suisse ou Histoire d'une famille suisse naufragée

Johann David Wyss

Le Robinson suisse ou Histoire d'une famille suisse naufragée is the French version of The Swiss Family Robinson writen by Johann David Wyss...

The Duel and Other Stories

Anton Chekhov

Known for his plays and short stories, Anton Chekhov also wrote a series of novellas, astonishing for their psychological complexity and compelling human portraiture. In The Duel, the wastrel and libe..

The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare

G. K. Chesterton

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a political thriller written by G.K. Chesterton, an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as t..

The Prairie

James Fenimore Cooper

The story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen and Abiram slowly making their way across the virgin prairies of the Midwest looking for a homestead, just two years after the Louisiana Purchase, and d..

Amerigo Vespucci

Frederick A. Ober

Amerigo Vespucci is a history work written by Frederick A. Ober, an American naturalist and writer...

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

Stephen Leacock

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich is a work of humorous fiction by Stephen Leacock first published in 1914. It is the follow-up to his 1912 classic "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town." Like that..