Classicly Collection of Books

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Revenge, murder, hidden treasure, and epic adventure! Dumas' masterpiece The Count of Monte Cristo details the wrongful imprisonment of the young sailor Edmond Dantes, a character whose transformation..

Allan Quatermain

H. Rider Haggard

Allan Quatermain is a 1887 sequel to Sir Henry Rider Haggard's famous and sensational novel King Solomon's Mines. Quatermain, an English-born Africa explorer of the Victorian era, is the explicit temp..

Fanny Hill

John Cleland

Often with banned books the publication story is as interesting as the book itself, and Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill as it became known, is no exception. It was penned by John Cleland..

The Island of Doctor Moreau

H. G. Wells

The Island of Dr. Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by H.G. Wells. It is the tale of Prendick, a British scientist, who is shipwrecked off Sumatra, then rescued and brought to an unnamed island...

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

The Scarlet Pimpernel is about a man who travels Europe rescuing French aristocrats from the Reign of Terror. It's very well written. The hero is like a less-violent version of Batman. A swashbuckling..

Two Years Before the Mast

Richard Henry Dana

Not an adventure or really a story. The life of a sailor on a tall ship. Well told and engaging if that interests you. A detailed and engaging narrative of a sailor aboard a merchant vessel in the 19t..

Ulysses

James Joyce

James Joyce's Ulysses is a conundrum of a book: some say it's unreadable stream-of-conscious gobbledegook, while others claim it to be the best book ever written. The 900 page work details a single da..

Up From Slavery - An Autobiography

Booker T. Washington

Mr. Washington's message of self reliance and the true dignity of labor is not only true but needs much reinforcement today. We, as African-Americans, are our own solution to most of our difficulties ..