Classicly Collection of Books

Memoir of John Lothrop Motley

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Memoir here given to the public is based on a biographical sketch prepared by the writer at the request of the Massachusetts Historical Society for its Proceedings. The questions involving controv..

Observations By Mr. Dooley

Finley Peter Dunne

"Hogan tells me that wan iv th' first things man done afther he'd larned to kill his neighborin' animals, an' make a meal iv wan part iv thim an' a vest iv another, was to begin to mannyfacther lithra..

A Day in Old Athens

William Stearns Davis

This little book tries to describe what an intelligent person would see and hear in ancient Athens, if by some legerdemain he were translated to the fourth century B.C. and conducted about the city un..

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

George Berkeley

What I here make public has, after a long and scrupulous inquiry, seemed to me evidently true and not unuseful to be known--particularly to those who are tainted with Scepticism, or want a demonstrati..

Autour de la Lune

Jules Verne

Pendant le cours de l'année 186., le monde entier fut singulièrement ému par une tentative scientifique sans précédents dans les annales de la science. Les membres du Gun-Club, cercle d'artilleurs fon..

Histoire des voyages de Scarmentado

Voltaire

Le prospectus des frères Cramer, pour leur édition de 1756, comprend les trois romans Les deux consolés, Histoire des voyages de Scarmentado, Le songe de Platon, au nombre des morceaux neufs qu'ils al..

An African Millionaire

Grant Allen

My name is Seymour Wilbraham Wentworth. I am brother-in-law and secretary to Sir Charles Vandrift, the South African millionaire and famous financier. Many years ago, when Charlie Vandrift was a small..

Mr. Achilles

Jennette Lee

Achilles Alexandrakis was arranging the fruit on his stall in front of his little shop on Clark Street. It was a clear, breezy morning, cool for October, but not cold enough to endanger the fruit that..