Classicly Books
India and the Indians
Edward Fenton ElwinIndia is really waking up, but she is doing so in her own Indian way. For some years past it has been one of my daily duties to arouse an Indian boy, and I know exactly how an Indian wakes. It is a le..
Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
William WestgarthI had long looked forward to one more visit to Victoria, perhaps the last I should expect to make, and the opportunity of the opening of the great Centenary Exhibition at Melbourne on 1st August of th..
The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1
Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellThe Leeds and Skipton railway runs along a deep valley of the Aire; a slow and sluggish stream, compared to the neighbouring river of Wharfe. Keighley station is on this line of railway, about a..
The Arabian Nights Entertainments — Volume 02
Jonathan ScottContents of Volume II. The Story of the Little Hunch-Back The Story Told by the Christian Merchant The Story Told by the Sultan of Casgar's Pur..
The Arabian Nights
Andrew LangThe Arabian Nights is a collection of Perso-Arabic folk tales and other stories. The collection, or at least certain stories drawn from it (or purporting to be drawn from it), became widely known in t..
The Fire Within
Patricia WentworthDora Amy Elles (15 October 1877[1] – 28 January 1961[2]), who wrote as Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction writer...
Cowper
Goldwin SmithCowper is the most important English poet of the period between Pope and the illustrious group headed by Wordsworth, Byron, and Shelley, which arose out of the intellectual ferment of the European Rev..
Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 1 of 2)
John MorleyThe present work closes a series of studies on the literary preparation for the French Revolution. It differs from the companion volumes on Voltaire and Rousseau, in being much more fully descriptive...