Classicly Collection of Books

Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them

T. S. Arthur

"WE are never too old to learn;" is a truism that cannot be repeated too often, if, in the repetition, we do not lose the force of the sentiment. In fact, at every stage of existence we are learners; ..

Woman's Trials; Or, Tales and Sketches from the Life around Us

T. S. Arthur

THE title of this volume sufficiently indicates its purpose. The stories of which it is composed have been mainly written with the end of creating for woman, in the various life-trials through which s..

At Large

Arthur Christopher Benson

Yes, of course it is an experiment! But it is made in corpore vili. It is not irreparable, and there is no reason, more's the pity, why I should not please myself. I will ask—it is a rhetorical questi..

From a College Window

Arthur Christopher Benson

Twelve of the essays included in this volume appeared in the Cornhill Magazine. My best thanks are due to the proprietor and editor of the Cornhill Magazine for kind permission and encouragement to re..

The Altar Fire

Arthur Christopher Benson

It will perhaps be said, and truly felt, that the following is a morbid book. No doubt the subject is a morbid one, because the book deliberately gives a picture of a diseased spirit. But a pathologic..

The Upton Letters

Arthur Christopher Benson

These letters were returned to me, shortly after the death of the friend to whom they were written, by his widow. It seems that he had been sorting and destroying letters and papers a few days before ..

Tom Swift in Captivity

Victor Appleton

Tom Swift closed the book of adventures he had been reading, tossed it on the table, and got up. Then he yawned."What's the matter?" asked his chum, Ned Newton, who was deep in another volume."Oh, I t..

Where No Fear Was - A Book About Fear

Arthur Christopher Benson

There surely may come a time for each of us, if we have lived with any animation or interest, if we have had any constant or even fitful desire to penetrate and grasp the significance of the strange a..