Classicly Books
A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts
Benjamin WaterhouseA Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts is a real account of captivation written by Benjamin Waterhouse.Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May,..
Die Italienische Plastik
Wilhelm BodeDie Italienische Plastik is a book on sculpture written by Wilhelm Bode, German art historian and curator. Born Arnold Wilhelm Bode in Calvörde, he was ennobled in 1913. He was the creator and fi..
Man in the Iron Mask (an Essay)
Alexandre DumasThis is the essay entitled The Man in the Iron Mask, not the novel “The Man in the Iron Mask”. For nearly one hundred years this curious problem has exercised the imagination of writers of fiction—and..
The Confessions
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe writer, composer and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) was a citizen of Geneva before Switzerland even existed. He's a major contributor to the Romantic movement, and one of the most..
The Human Machine
Arnold BennettThe Human Machine is a book on etiquette written by Arnold Bennett, an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as the theatre, journalism, propagan..
The Prisoner of Zenda
Anthony HopeThe Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope, is an adventure novel in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within ..
The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Emmuska OrczyThe Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, first published in 1922, is a book in the series about the Scarlet Pimpernel's adventures by Baroness Orczy...
From the Earth to the Moon
Jules VerneLike much classic science fiction and fantasy writing, Jules Verne's novel From the Earth to the Moon seems comically anachronistic: a group of Civil War vets, who are still wistful about the glories ..