Classicly Collection of Books

Day of the Druid

Knut Enferd

How much longer was this infernal whiteness going to last? A man was thirty years old, in the prime of his life, with the blood running hot through the seven foot length of him. How much longer was he..

Master Sunshine

Mrs. C. F. Fraser

Master Sunshine never stopped to argue with Almira Jane when she called him a "rascalpion." He knew that this was a plain sign that she was getting "nervous;" and when Almira Jane was nervous, it was ..

Ulric the Jarl - A Story of the Penitent Thief

William O. Stoddard

In the Northland were the roots from which grew the great nations which now rule the earth. The tribes were many, but the principal representative and the absorbent of their thoughts and their traditi..

Verses

Susan Coolidge

 Nourished by peaceful suns and gracious dew,  Your sweet youth budded and your sweet lives grew,  And all the world seemed rose-beset for you...

A Simple Story

Mrs. Inchbald

The story could really have been simple: Miss Milner, who is admired for her beauty and charm, could have been a socialite, marry a respectable and good looking man and be happy in the standards of he..

A Woman of Thirty

Marjorie Allen Seiffert

Marjorie Allen Seiffert (1885-1970) was an American poet and playwright whose works include Ballads of the Singing Bowl, The King with Three Faces, and A Woman of Thirty ...

Barry Lyndon

William Makepeace Thackeray

Barry Lyndon—far from the best known, but by some critics acclaimed as the finest, of Thackeray’s works—appeared originally as a serial a few years before VANITY FAIR was written; yet it was not publi..

Lover's Vows

August von Kotzebue

Lovers' Vows (1798), a play by Elizabeth Inchbald arguably best known now for having been featured in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park (1814), is one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotze..