Classicly Books
Father Goriot
Honore de BalzacFather Goriot is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac, included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Said to have been an i..
Infernaliana
Charles NodierJean Charles Emmanuel Nodier was an influential French author and librarian who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the conte fantastique, gothic literature, and vampire tales. His drea..
Mathilda
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyMathilda, or Matilda, is the second long work of fiction of Mary Shelley, written between August 1819 and February 1820 and first published posthumously in 1959. It deals with common Romantic themes...
McTeague - A Story of San Francisco
Frank NorrisMcTeague is a novel by Frank Norris, first published in 1899. It tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty, violence and finally murder as the res..
Uncle Abner, Master of Mysteries
Melville Davisson PostFourteen mysteries from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, the Metropolitan, Red Book, and Pictorial Review magazines featuring Uncle Abner, who solves crimes in the pre-Civil War West Virginia h..
Child Life in Town and Country
Anatole FranceFANCHON went early one morning, like Little Red Riding-Hood, to see her grandmother, who lives right at the other end of the village. But Fanchon did not stop like little Red Riding-Hood, to gather nu..
Coningsby
Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin DisraeliCONINGSBY was published in the year 1844. The main purpose of its writer was to vindicate the just claims of the Tory party to be the popular political confederation of the country; a purpose which he..
In Mesopotamia
Maurice NicollHenry Maurice Dunlop Nicoll was a Scottish psychiatrist, author and noted Fourth Way teacher. He is best known for his Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, a multi-vo..