Classicly Collection of Books

Divine Comedy - Purgatory

Dante Alighieri

Purgatory is the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno, and preceding the Paradiso. The poem was written in the early 14th century. It is an allegory telling of the climb of Dant..

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Edgar Allan Poe

As a story writer and poet, Edgar Allan Poe was master of the macabre and one of America's great literary geniuses. His collection of poems, short stories, and literary criticism not only helped defin..

The Raven / The Masque of the Red Death / The Cask of Amontillado

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849), a short story writer and poet, was master of the macabre and one of America's great literary geniuses. His collection of poems and short stories not only helped to defin..

Divine Comedy - Paradise

Dante Alighieri

Paradise is the third and final part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the Purgatorio. It is an allegory telling of Dante's journey through Heaven, guided by Beatrice, who symbolises..

The Banquet

Dante Alighieri

Between 1304 and 1307 Dante wrote Convivio, or "The Banquet," a philosophical essay which is part poetry and part prose. It is in four parts, or treatises, and is unfinished. It is the record of Dante..

The New Life (La Vita Nuova)

Dante Alighieri

The New Life (La Vita Nuova) is a text by Dante Alighieri published in 1295. It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse.The..

The Inferno

Henri Barbusse

The Inferno or Hell is Henri Barbusse's second novel, written in 1908, in which the unnamed narrator spies on his fellow house guests through a peep hole in his wall...

A Journal of the Plague Year

Daniel Defoe

A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. This novel is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague or the bubonic pla..