Classicly Collection of Books

The Cell of Self-Knowledge - seven early English mystical treatises

Henry Pepwell

The seven tracts or treatises before us were published in 1521 in a little quarto volume: "Imprynted at London in Poules chyrchyarde at the sygne of the Trynyte, by Henry Pepwell. In the yere of our l..

The Querist

George Berkeley

The Querist Containing Several Queries Proposed to the Consideration of the Public. Whether the bank proposed to be established in Ireland, under the notion of a national bank, by the voluntary s..

The Story of Sonny Sahib

Sara Jeannette Duncan

The ayah caught up her brass cooking-pot and followed him. Since the doctor-sahib was to pay, the doctor-sahib would arrange that good measure should be given in the matter of the milk. And upon secon..

Back to God's Country and Other Stories

James Oliver Curwood

James Curwood wrote many adventures of the far north. By 1909 he had saved enough money to travel to the Canadian northwest, a trip that provided the inspiration for his wilderness adventure stories. ..

Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe

Charlotte M. Yonge

Travel with Little Lucy around the globe and learn a little geography and small bits about other cultures.There was once a wonderful fortnight in little Lucy's life. One evening she went to bed very t..

The Crown of Life

George Gissing

Amid the throng of suburban arrivals volleyed forth from Waterloo Station on a May morning in the year '86, moved a slim, dark, absent-looking young man of one-and-twenty, whose name was Piers Otway. ..

Sylvia's Lovers

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven. Sylvia Robson lives with her parents on a farm, and is loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in ..

The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories

Edith Wharton

The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories is a collection of American short stories written by Edith Wharton, who was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer. Wharton..