Classicly Collection of Books

The House of the Dead

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860–2 in the journal Vremya by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The..

Flappers and Philosophers

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald followed up his smash hit debut novel This Side of Paradise with this 1920 collection of short stories, Flappers and Philosophers, that contains many signature pieces like Bernice ..

The Machine Stops

E.M. Forster

The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review, the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other S..

Where Angels Fear to Tread

E.M. Forster

Where Angels Fear to Tread is a novel by E. M. Forster. The title comes from a line in Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism: "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"..

Memoirs of My Life and Writings

Edward Gibbon

Memoirs of My Life and Writings is an account of the historian Edward Gibbon's life, compiled after his death by his friend Lord Sheffield from six fragmentary autobiographical works Gibbon wrote duri..

The Longest Journey

E.M. Forster

The Longest Journey is a bildungsroman by E. M. Forster, first published in 1907. It is the second of Forster's six published novels, following Where Angels Fear to Tread and preceding A Room With A V..

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1

Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon's massive and masterful six volume work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, is a hefty undertaking. But it's cited as the model on which modern historians base thei..

The Mucker

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Mucker is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Originally two stories, The Mucker begun in August 1913 and published by All-Story Weekly in October and November 1914; and The Return of the Mucker begu..