Classicly Books
The Banquet
Dante AlighieriBetween 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 AlighieriThe 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 BarbusseThe 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 DefoeA 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..
History of the Plague in England
Daniel DefoeThe father of Daniel Defoe was a butcher in the parish of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, London. In this parish, probably, Daniel Defoe was born in 1661, the year after the restoration of Charles II. The b..
Memoirs of a Cavalier
Daniel DefoeMemoirs of a Cavalier is a work of historical fiction by Daniel Defoe, set during the Thirty Years' War and the English Civil Wars. The full title, which bore no date, was: Memoirs of a Cavalier; or A..
The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton
Daniel DefoeThe Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton (1720) covers both land and sea in one volume, in two neatly composed halves. The first half of the novel includes a remarkable over..
Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England
Daniel DefoeTour Through the Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Dafoe is an enjoyable travel memoir. She plays with the reader's imagination and portrays scenic beauty with such delight that the reader is drag..