Classicly Books
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03
Sir Richard Francis BurtonThis is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Pers..
Alcohol - A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why
Martha Meir AllenThis book is the outcome of many years of study. With the exception of a few quotations, none of the material has ever before appeared in any book. The writer has been indebted for years past to..
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce a satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. Nothing is know..
A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories
Beatrix PotterWhat can we say about the delightful Beatrix Potter stories? Starting with the naughty Peter Rabbit and his mis-adventures, progressing through The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle whose funny name is just t..
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow, and is ..
The Essays of Schopenhauer
Arthur SchopenhauerArthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, wherein he characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind and insat..
With Kelly to Chitral
William George Laurence BeynonBefore you read this short history of a few brief weeks, I must warn you that it is no record of exciting adventure or heroic deeds, but simply an account of the daily life of British officers a..
A General Sketch of the European War - The First Phase
Hilaire BellocIt is the object of this book, and those which will succeed it in the same series, to put before the reader the main lines of the European War as it proceeds. Each such part must necessarily be comple..