Classicly Books
A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career
Joel BentonA Unique Story of a Marvellous Career is the biography of Phineas Taylor Barnum was an American showman, politician, and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the Bar..
An Essay on Man
Alexander PopePope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in the vast Chain of Being. Each of the poem’s four Epistles take..
The American Union Speaker
John D. PhilbrickThe American Union Speaker is a criticism work written by John Dudley Philbrick, a prominent American educator.Author's Preface:The design of this book is twofold,—to meet the present demand for ..
The Rover's Secret - A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba
Harry CollingwoodThe Rover's Secret: A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba is a juvenile sea story written by Harry Collingwood, an English writer who served in the navy and later as an engineer and trave..
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 01
Saint-SimonLouis XIV, known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 14 May 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest recorded of any monarch of a soverei..
Sea Warfare
Rudyard KiplingSea Warfare is a short work on Britain's Naval Force's role in the Battle of Jutland written by Joseph Rudyard Kipling , an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. ..
The Celtic Twilight
William Butler YeatsThe Celtic Twilight is a collection of Irish Folk tales written by William Butler Yeats, an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.Author's Preface:Many of the..
The Helpful Robots
Robert SheaThe Helpful Robots is a short science fiction story written by American novelist Robert Shea and co-author of Illuminatus! one of the most famous. fantasy trilogy.Robert J. Shea, of Rutgers Univ..