Classicly Collection of Books

The Precipice - A Novel

Elia W. Peattie

The Precipice is a story of the romantic rivalry among three men, condemning nihilism as subverting the religious and moral values of Russia. It was originally published in 1869 in Vestnik Evropy. Lat..

A Shropshire Lad

A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman. A Shropshire Lad was first published in 1896 at Housman's own expense after several publishers had turned it..

Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine

Edwin Waugh

Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine is a  by Edwin Waugh, an English poet whose writings include Lancashire Sketches, Poems and Lancashire Songs, Tufts of Heather fr..

I Will Repay

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

I Will Repay is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The second Pimpernel book written by Orczy, it comes (chronologically) third in the series and should be read after Sir Percy Leads the Band an..

L'Île Des Pingouins

Anatole France

The novel (original French title -- L'Île des Pingouins) is a satire on human nature. The first publication was in 1908. These penguins are mistaken for humans by the 97-year-old priest, Father Mael, ..

Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon

Edouard Martin

Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon is a French drama penned by Eugène Labiche, a French dramatist, perhaps best known for his 1851 farce written with Marc-Michel, The Italian Straw Hat, which has since b..

Lessons in Music Form

Percy Goetschius

Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition written by Percy Goetschius, who won international fame in the teaching of the..

A Journey to America in 1834

Robert Heywood

A Journey to America in 1834 is a travel writing by Robert Heywood...