Classicly Books
Turned Adrift
Harry CollingwoodTurned Adrift is a sea story written by Harry Collingwood ,who served in the navy and later as an engineer. He traveled extensively finding copious for his wonderful adventure stories.Excerpts:Th..
Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp
John Avery LomaxThe "Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp" does not purport to be an anthology of Western verse. As its title indicates, the contents of the book are limited to attempts, more or less poetic, in tra..
The Night Land
William Hope HodgsonThe Night Land is a horror novel by English writer William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912. As a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre. H. P. Lovecraft describes the novel ..
Afoot in England
W. H. HudsonAfoot in England is a personal narrative of travels in England written by William Henry Hudson, an author, naturalist, and ornithologist.Guide-books are so many that it seems probable we have more tha..
Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Complete
Edward Bulwer-LyttonLeila or, the Siege of Granada is a multi volume book on Spain sieges history written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who was an English writer and politician.Excerpts:The night was not far advanced; an..
Poems and Songs
Bjørnstjerne BjørnsonPoems and Songs is a Norwegian poetry written by Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson, who was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificen..
Ralph the Heir
Anthony TrollopeRalph the Heir is a novel by Anthony Trollope, originally published in 1871. Although Trollope described it as "one of the worst novels I have written", it was well received by contemporary critics.Fo..
An apology for the study of northern antiquities
Elizabeth ElstobCharles Peake's Introduction:The answerers who rushed into print in 1712 against Swift’s Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue were so obviously moved by the spirit of..