Classicly Collection of Books

The Great Fortress - A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760

William Wood

Louisbourg was no mere isolated stronghold which could be lost or won without affecting the wider issues of oversea dominion. On the contrary, it was a necessary link in the chain of waterside posts w..

A Few Figs from Thistles

Edna St. Vincent Millay

A Few Figs from Thistles is a collection of American poetry contains 23 poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the th..

A Kidnapped Santa Claus

L. Frank Baum

A Kidnapped Santa Claus is a Christmas-themed short story by American writer L. Frank Baum; it has been called "one of Baum's most beautiful stories" and constitutes an influential contribution to the..

An Antarctic Mystery

Jules Verne

An Antarctic Mystery is a two-volume novel by Jules Verne. Written in 1897, it is a response to Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It follows the adventures ..

Another Study of Woman

Honore de Balzac

A series of tales -- told by men, of course -- about women. Though the book first appeared in 1842, Balzac later added to it as an addenfum a tale of 1831, La Grande Bretèche. That will be read later,..

Ballads of a Bohemian

Robert W. Service

Ballads of a Bohemian is a collection of poems tied together by the narration of the "author" Stephen Poore. The poems speak of bohemian life in Paris before the war, his experiences during World War ..

Belles and Ringers

Hawley Smart

Belles and Ringers is a courtship fiction written by Henry Hawley Smart, who was an English army officer and novelist, who wrote as Capt. Hawley Smart. He was praised for his realistic racing and hunt..

Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse

Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse is a poety collection written by Joseph Crosby Lincoln, who was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, many set in a fictionalized Cape Cod.&nbs..