Classicly Books
Abbeychurch
Charlotte Mary YongeRechauffes are proverbially dangerous, but everyone runs into them sooner or later, and the world has done me the kindness so often to inquire after my first crude attempt, that after it has lain for ..
Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey
Washington IrvingI sit down to perform my promise of giving you an account of a visit made many years since to Abbotsford. I hope, however, that you do not expect much from me, for the travelling notes taken at the ti..
All Roads Lead to Calvary
Jerome K. JeromeAll Roads Lead to Calvary is a 1919 novel by the British writer Jerome K. Jerome. It was one of the last works written by Jerome, better known for his Three Men in a Boat, and shows the influence of t..
Doom of the Griffiths
Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellAmong other traditions preserved relative to this part of the Welsh hero’s character, is the old family prophecy which gives title to this tale. When Sir David Gam, “as black a traitor as if he ..
Purple Springs
Nellie L. McClungIt was the last day of February, the extra day, dead still, and biting cold, with thick, lead-colored skies shading down to inky blue at the western horizon. In the ravine below John Watson's house tr..
The Way of All Flesh
Samuel ButlerThe Way of All Flesh is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family.Samuel But..
The Wharf by the Docks
Florence WardenEverybody knows Canterbury, with its Old-World charms and its ostentatious air of being content to be rather behind the times, of looking down upon the hurrying Americans who dash through its cathedra..
A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare
William ShakespeareA Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare by George Colman...