Classicly Collection of Books

How to Sing

Lilli Lehmann

The propose of the book How To Sing is to discuss simply, intelligibly, yet from a scientific point of view, the sensations known to us in singing, and exactly ascertained in my experience, by the exp..

In the Penal Colony

Franz Kafka

The story is set in an unnamed penal colony. Internal clues and the setting on an island suggest Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden as an influence. As in some of Kafka's other writings, the narrator..

Men Called Him Master

Elwyn A. Smith

Men Called Him Master is a a biography of Jesus Christ written for young readers by Elwyn A. Smith. What kind of men were Jesus' disciples? What was it like to be with Jesus in Palestine? Why did..

The Phoenix and the Carpet

Edith Nesbit

The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written by E. Nesbit and first published in 1904. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that begins with Five Children and It, and follows..

The Story of My Misfortunes

Peter Abelard

Peter Abelard, the medieval philosopher and composer, here gives a concise but vivid survey of his notoriously calamitous life. The work is couched in the form of a letter to an afflicted friend. Abel..

A History of Freedom of Thought

J. B. Bury

IT is a common saying that thought is free. A man can never be hindered from thinking whatever he chooses so long as he conceals what he thinks. The working of his mind is limited only by the bounds o..

La Comédie Humaine - Le Père Goriot

Honore de Balzac

Le Père Goriot (English: Father Goriot or Old Goriot) is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequ..

The Auction Block

Rex Beach

THE AUCTION BLOCK is a general fiction work written By REX BEACH, who is also the author of "THE SILVER HORDE" "THE SPOILERS" "THE IRON TRAIL" Etc.Excerpts:His father interrupted harshly: "Now, cut th..