Classicly Books
Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship; Or, The Naval Terror of the Seas
Victor AppletonTom Swift is an inventor, and these are his adventures. The locale is the little town of Shopton in upstate New York, near Lake Carlopa. While some of Tom's inventions are not well-founded in a scient..
Against Home Rule (1912)
S. RosenbaumThis book, for which I have been asked to write a short preface, presents the case against Home Rule for Ireland. The articles are written by men who not only have a complete grasp of the subjects upo..
Apocolocyntosis
Lucius Annaeus SenecaApocolocyntosis is a humorous short non-fiction work by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and—in one work—satirist of the Silver Age of Latin literature...
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
Archibald ForbesCamps, Quarters, and Casual Places is a memoir by Archibald Forbes was a Scottish war correspondent. Excerpts:The interval between the declaration of the Franco-German war of 1870-71, and th..
Father and Son - A Study of Two Temperaments
Edmund GosseFather and Son is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled "a study of two temperaments." The book describes Edmund's early years in an exceptionally devout Plymouth Brethren home...
Impressions of Theophrastus Such
George EliotImpressions of Theophrastus Such is a work of fiction by George Eliot, first published in 1879. It was Eliot's last published writing and her most experimental, taking the form of a series of literary..
King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider HaggardKing Solomon's Mines is a popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers le..
Les Caves du Vatican
André GideLes Caves du Vatican is a French fiction novel written by André Gide, a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist m..