Classicly Collection of Books

Le Kama soutra

Vatsyayana

Les principes sur le juste et l'injuste sont les mêmes en tout temps et en tout lieu, ils constituent la morale absolue; mais les principes sur les moeurs varient avec les âges et les pays. Depuis la ..

The Perpetuation of Living Beings, Hereditary Transmission and Variation

Thomas Henry Huxley

The Perpetuation of Living Beings, Hereditary Transmission and Variation. Lecture IV. (of VI.), "Lectures to Working Men", at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1863, on Darwin's Work: "Origin of Specie..

The Return of Peter Grimm

David Belasco

The present Editor has had many opportunities of studying the theatre side of David Belasco. He has been privileged to hear expressed, by this Edison of our stage, diverse opinions about plays and pla..

A London Life, and Other Tales

Henry James

A devoted sister attempts to check her sibling's scandalous behavior in the world of British high society. A delightful comedy of Anglo-American manners and a fascinating glimpse of late Victorian Lon..

Hospital Sketches

Louisa May Alcott

A considerable portion of this volume was published in successive numbers of The Commonwealth, newspaper, of Boston. The sudden popularity the Sketches won from the general public, and the praise they..

The Cannibal Islands

R.M. Ballantyne

The Cannibal Islands: Captain Cook.More than a hundred years ago, there lived a man who dwelt in a mud cottage in the county of York; his name was Cook. He was a poor, honest labourer—a farm servant. ..

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

A kindly thing it is to have compassion of the afflicted and albeit it well beseemeth every one, yet of those is it more particularly required who have erst had need of comfort and have found it in an..

The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains

Nathaniel Hawthorne

THE first three numbers in this collection are tales of the White Hills in New Hampshire. The passages from Sketches from Memory show that Hawthorne had visited the mountains in one of his occasional ..