Classicly Collection of Books

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. IV

Thomas Moore

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. IV With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore."Your letters of the 18th and 20th are arrived. In my own I have given you the rise, progress, decline, and fall, of my r..

The Empress Josephine

Louisa Mühlbach

“I win the battles, Josephine wins me the hearts.” These words of Napoleon are the most beautiful epitaph of the Empress Josephine, the much-loved, the much-regretted, and the much-slandered one. Even..

The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln

Francis Fisher Browne

The present revision of "The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln" was the last literary labor of its author. He had long wished to undertake the work, and had talked much of it for several years past. B..

The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

James McNeill Whistler

A most curiously well-concocted piratical scheme to publish, without his knowledge or consent, a complete collection of Mr. Whistler's "American Register," Paris, March 8, 1890. writings, letters, pam..

Time and Life - Mr. Darwin's "Origin of Species"

Thomas Henry Huxley

EVERYONE knows that that superficial film of the earth’s substance, hardly ten miles thick, which is accessible to human investigation, is composed for the most part of beds or strata of stone, the co..

History of Friedrich II of Prussia, vol 20

Thomas Carlyle

On the Crown-Prince's Marriage, three years ago, when the AMT or Government-District RUPPIN, with its incomings, was assigned to him for revenue, we heard withal of a residence getting ready. Hint had..

The Achievements of Luther Trant

Edwin Balmer

The Achievements of Luther Trant written by Edwin Balmer.  Edwin Balmer was an American science fiction and mystery writer. Balmer was born in Chicago to Helen Clark (Pratt) and Thomas Balme..

The Life of King Edward VII

J. Castell Hopkins

The reader of these pages will, I hope, receive a permanent impression of the career and character of one who has been at once a popular Prince, a great King, a worthy head of the British Empire and o..