Classicly Books
A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice BurroughsBefore many of the current genres were cemented, Edgar Rice Burroughs began putting out a seemingly endless blur of sci-fi/fantasy/pulp fiction books, starting with A Princess of Mars. He would later ..
Gettysburg Address
Abraham LincolnAt Gettysburg, the famous Civil War battleground, Abraham Lincoln said: "The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." This is something..
Little Women
Louisa May AlcottLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott is a beloved portrait of an American family during the latter half of the 19th century. The March family patriarch engaged in the Civil War as a chaplain in the Union..
The Beautiful and the Damned
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Beautiful and the Damned is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second book, published in 1922, which portrays the lives of a young, wealthy, and pleasure-seeking couple, Anthony and Gloria Patch. Anthony is he..
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Brothers Karamazov (1880) is Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky's final, and perhaps most masterful novel. It is a deeply passionate and philosophical novel that delves into the difficult terrain o..
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore CooperThis book gives an entertaining and accurate historical view of the Colonies during the French and Indian war. This is what set the stage for the american Revolution, and it is masterfully told by one..
Walden
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau's book Walden would become particularly popular during the forced austerity of the Great Depression of the 1930s, and then again during the 1960s when conservationism, transcendent..
Anna Karenina
Leo Nikoleyevich TolstoyConsidered "the greatest novel of all time," Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was published in serial form between the years 1873 and 1877. It opens with the famous line "Happy families are all alike; every un..