Classicly Collection of Books

The Muse of the Department

Honore de Balzac

The Muse of the Department is a French fiction writing by Honoré de Balzac, who was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleoni..

Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days

George Manville Fenn

Cormorant Crag: A Tale of the Smuggling Days is a treasure troves juvenile fiction story written by George Manville Fenn, a prolific English novelist, journalist, editor and educationalist. Many of hi..

Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective

Frank Pinkerton

Dyke Darrel investigates an audacious train robbery that included the murder of a friend, and embarks on a man-hunt. High Victorian serial melodrama at its best! (Summary by Sibella Denton)...

The Blue Book of Chess

Howard Staunton

The Blue Book of Chess, teaching the rudiments of the game, and giving an analysis of all the recognized openings is written by Howard Staunton, an English chess master who is generally regarded as ha..

The Iroquois Book of Rites

Horatio Hale

The Iroquois Book of Rites is a non-fiction work by Horatio Emmons Hale, an American-Canadian ethnologist, philologist and businessman who studied language as a key for classifying ancient peoples and..

Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verses

Edith Wharton

Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verses is a collection of poems and verses written by Edith Wharton,  an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer. ..

Chronica d'el rei D. Diniz (Vol. II)

Rui de Pina

Chronica d'el rei D. Diniz (Vol. II) is a book on Portugal history written by Rui de Pina...

Clocks

Jerome K. Jerome

Clocks is a short essay written by Jerome Klapka Jerome, an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat. ..