Classicly Books
The White Company
Arthur Conan DoyleThe creator of Sherlock Holmes took so much greater pride in a series of carefully researched historical novels that posterity has largely forgotten that he tossed his best-loved hero into Reichenbach..
Adolphe - Anecdote trouvée dans les papiers d'un inconnu
Benjamin ConstantHenri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Swiss-French political activist and writer on politics and religion. He was the author of a partly biographical psychological no..
Amiel's Journal - The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Henri Frédéric AmielIn this second edition of the English translation of Amiel’s “Journal Intime,” I have inserted a good many new passages, taken from the last French edition (Cinquiéme édition, revue et augmentée.) But..
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
Various AuthorsThe Englishman who, however well inclined to defer to the wisdom "of former ages," should throw a glance at the stern realities of the past, as connected with the history of his country, will be littl..
Deutsche Literaturgeschichte in einer Stunde
Alfred HenschkeAlfred Henschke, better known by his pseudonym Klabund, was a German writer...
Oberon
Christoph Martin WielandOberon is an epic poem by the German writer Christoph Martin Wieland. It was based on the epic romance Huon de Bordeaux, a French medieval tale, and influenced by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dre..
The Arena, Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897
Various AuthorsThe twenty-seven respectable citizens of New York who, in 1792, met under a buttonwood tree in front of the premises now known as Number 60 Wall Street, and formed an association for the purchase and ..
The Arena, Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897
Various AuthorsThis the age of evolution. The word is used by many men in many senses, and still oftener perhaps in no sense at all. By some it is spoken with a haunting dread as though it were another name for the ..