Classicly Collection of Books

Evan Harrington

George Meredith

Evan Harrington is an 1861 novel by George Meredith, a glowing comedy of Victorian presumptions. The second of Meredith's 'mainstream' novels, the work is loosely autobiographical in inspiration; and ..

Sandra Belloni

George Meredith

Sandra Belloni is the sequel of the novel Vittoria, written by George Meredith.We are to make acquaintance with some serious damsels, as this English generation knows them, and at a season vergin..

Hira Singh - When India came to fight in Flanders

Talbot Mundy

I take leave to dedicate this book to Mr. Elmer Davis, through whose friendly offices I was led to track down the hero of these adventures and to find the true account of them even better than the dai..

The Shaving of Shagpat

George Meredith

The novel is a humorous oriental romance and allegory written in the style of the Arabian Nights. Like its model, it includes a number of stories within the story, along with poetic asides. “The varie..

A Romance of Two Worlds - A Novel

Marie Corelli

The book starts with a young heroine telling her story of coping with a debilitating illness that includes depression and thoughts of suicide. Her doctor is unable to help her and sends her off on a h..

In Wicklow and West Kerry

J. M. Synge

Some features of County Wicklow, such as the position of the principal workhouses and holiday places on either side of the coach road from Arklow to Bray, have made this district a favourite with the ..

The Tides of Barnegat

Francis Hopkinson Smith

One lovely spring morning—and this story begins on a spring morning some fifty years or more ago—a joy of a morning that made one glad to be alive, when the radiant sunshine had turned the ribbon of a..

The Woman Who Did

Grant Allen

Most times, especially in the time when this book was written (1895), it is just as nature and society would wish: a man and woman "fall in love" and get married. But it is not so for Herminia Barton ..