Classicly Collection of Books

The Complete Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted Village, and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man and She ..

The Readjustment

William Henry Irwin

After luncheon they walked over from the ranch-house—more indeed a country villa, what with its ceiled redwood walls, its prints, its library, than the working house of a practical farm—and down the d..

Abbeychurch

Charlotte Mary Yonge

Rechauffes 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 Irving

I 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. Jerome

All 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 Gaskell

Among 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. McClung

It 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 Butler

The 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..