Classicly Collection of Books

Poil de Carotte

Jules Renard

Poil de Carotte, les fesses collées, les talons plantés, se met à trembler dans les ténèbres. Elles sont si épaisses qu'il se croit aveugle. Parfois une rafale l'enveloppe, comme un drap glacé, pour l..

The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth

J. B. Bury

We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case it is a matter of interest to examine the origins and trace the history of what is now, even should it ultimately prove to ..

The life of Percy Bysshe Shelley

John Addington Symonds

It is worse than useless to deplore the irremediable; yet no man, probably, has failed to mourn the fate of mighty poets, whose dawning gave the promise of a glorious day, but who passed from earth wh..

The Stranger - A Drama, in Five Acts

August von Kotzebue

There seems to be required by a number of well meaning persons of the present day a degree of moral perfection in a play, which few literary works attain; and in which sermons, and other holy producti..

Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort

Edith Wharton

American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the lines, including hospitals, ravaged villages, and trenches. Fi..

St. Elmo

Augusta J. Evans

St. Elmo is a novel by American author Augusta Jane Evans published in 1866. Featuring the sexual tension between the protagonist St. Elmo, a cynical man, and the heroine Edna Earl, a beautiful and de..

The Border Legion

Zane Grey

The story of a cold hearted man named Jack Kells who falls in love with Miss Joan Randle, a girl his legion has taken captive near the Idaho border.Joan had quarreled with Jim Cleve, and she was bitte..

Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verses

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the l..