Classicly Collection of Books

Evangeline

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written in English and published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search..

The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge

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Táin Bó Cúailnge; "the driving-off of cows of Cooley", commonly known as The Cattle Raid of Cooley or The Táin) is a legendary tale from early Irish literature which is often considered an epic, altho..

The Argonautica

Apollonius Rhodius

The Argonautica is a Greek epic poem written by Apollonius Rhodius in the 3rd century BC. The only surviving Hellenistic epic, the Argonautica tells the myth of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts t..

Cora

George Sand

The idle idleness of which I was a victim will sequestrate me at home for the first week. I was very young, and neglect that I had hitherto provided by nature to important considerations of setting an..

Daniel Deronda

George Eliot

Daniel Deronda is a novel by George Eliot, first published in 1876. It was the last novel she completed and the only one set in the contemporary Victorian society of her day. The work's mixture of soc..

Marmion

Sir Walter Scott

Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field is a historical romance in verse of 16th-century Britain by Walter Scott, published in 1808. It concludes with the Battle of Flodden in 1513. It was published in Edinb..

The Adventures of Elizabeth Ann

Josephine Lawrence

We first meet Elizabeth Ann on a big train, traveling all alone. Her father and mother have sailed for Japan, and she is sent back East to visit at first one relative's home, and then another. Of cour..