Classicly Books
Walking
Henry David ThoreauWalking is Thoreau's essay that champions the simple act of taking stroll through Nature. It has become one of the most important essays in the environmental movement, and is a portable guide to the m..
Wild Apples
Henry David ThoreauWild Apples is a book by Henry David Thoreau. Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development..
The Possessed
Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Possessed or Demons is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1871–2. It is considered one of the four masterworks written by Dostoevsky after ..
Notes From The Underground
Fyodor DostoyevskyNotes from the Underground (1864) is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Considered perhaps the first existentialist novel, the first anti-hero novel, and Dostoevsky's first great novel, Notes is a p..
The Grand Inquisitor
Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Grand Inquisitor is a poem inside Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov. It is recited by Ivan Karamazov, who questions the possibility of a personal and benevolent God, to his brother ..
The Gentle Spirit
Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Gentle Spirit is very short – longer than a short story, but barely long enough to be called a novella. Because of this, it doesn’t have the grand scale of Dostoevsky’s longer works. But it does s..
The Gambler
Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in..
Poor Folk
Fyodor DostoyevskyPoor Folk is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845. Dostoyevsky was in financial difficulty because of his extravagant lifestyle and his deve..