Classicly Collection of Books

Australia Twice Traversed

Ernest Giles

Australia Twice TraversedThe Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 187..

Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician

Frederick Niecks

The first work of some length having Chopin for its subject was Liszt's "Frederic Chopin," which, after appearing in 1851 in the Paris journal "La France musicale," came out in book-form, still in Fre..

Les Cinq Cents Millions De La Bégum

Jules Verne

Le docteur Sarrasin avait toute sa vie pratiqué le monologue, qui est une des formes de la distraction.C'était un homme de cinquante ans, aux traits fins, aux yeux vifs et purs sous leurs lunettes d'a..

Luck, or Cunning, as the Main Means of Organic Modification

Samuel Butler

This second edition of Luck, or Cunning? is a reprint of the first edition, dated 1887, but actually published in November, 1886.  The only alterations of any consequence are in the Index, which ..

Moral

Ludwig Thoma

Dr. Ludwig Thoma, perhaps better known to his Bavarian countrymen as Peter Schlemiehl, was born in Oberammergau on January 21, 1867. After graduating from a gymnasium in Munich, he studied at the Scho..

Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia

Charles Sturt

Narrative of an Expedition into Central AustraliaPerformed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6, Together With A Notice of the Province of South Australia i..

The Belton Estate

Anthony Trollope

Mrs. Amedroz, the wife of Bernard Amedroz, Esq., of Belton Castle, and mother of Charles and Clara Amedroz, died when those children were only eight and six years old, thereby subjecting them to the g..

There Are Crimes and Crimes

August Strindberg

Strindberg was fifty years old when he wrote "There Are Crimes and Crimes." In the same year, 1899, he produced three of his finest historical dramas: "The Saga of the Folkungs," "Gustavus Vasa," and ..