Classicly Collection of Books

Basil

Wilkie Collins

Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He stalks her and discovers she is M..

It Is Never Too Late to Mend

Charles Reade

Readers hardened by the Times will not perhaps go so far as to weep over a body of traders for being reduced to the average condition of all other traders. But the individual trader, who fights for ex..

In the Wilderness

Robert Hichens

Amedeo Dorini, the hall porter of the Hotel Cavour in Milan, stood on the pavement before the hotel one autumn afternoon in the year 1894, waiting for the omnibus, which had gone to the station, and w..

Papa Hamlet

Bjarne P. Holmsen

Noch um eine Nuance verdsterter hatte sich jetzt der groáe Thienwiebel wieder rcklings ber das kleine, niedrige, mit blauem Kattun berspannte Sofa geworfen und starrte nun ber die Spitzen seiner grnen..

The Clique of Gold

Emile Gaboriau

There is not in all Paris a house better kept or more inviting-looking than No. 23 in Grange Street. As soon as you enter, you are struck by a minute, extreme neatness, which reminds you of Holland, a..

A Hazard of New Fortunes

William Dean Howells

Howell’s novel is set in New York of the late nineteenth century, a city familiar to readers of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Basil March, a businessman from Boston of a literary bent, moves with his..

The Small House at Allington

Anthony Trollope

The squires of Allington had been squires of Allington since squires, such as squires are now, were first known in England. From father to son, and from uncle to nephew, and, in one instance, from sec..

Eclectic School Readings - Stories from Life

Orison Swett Marden

To make a life, as well as to make a living, is one of the supreme objects for which we must all struggle. The sooner we realize what this means, the greater and more worthy will be the life which we ..