Classicly Books
Devon Boys - A Tale of the North Shore
George Manville FennDevon Boys: A Tale of the North Shore is a juvenile adventure fiction novel written by English novelist and author of Children's literature. He has written more than hundred books including..
Reflections and Comments 1865-1895
Edwin Lawrence GodkinReflections and Comments 1865-1895 is a collection of Essays and Pamphlets written by Edwin Lawrence Godkin, an Irish-born American journalist and newspaper editor. Excerpts:The horrors of w..
Superseded
May SinclairSuperseded is a women's fiction story written by May Sinclair, a British writer of short stories and poems. Excerpts:The school was filing out along the main corridor of St. Sidwell's. It came wi..
A Husband by Proxy
Jack SteeleA Husband by Proxy is a detective and mystery novel set on Inheritance and succession written by Jack Steele.Excerpts:While he stood there a shadow fell upon the glass. Someone was standing ..
The Crayon Papers
Washington IrvingThe Crayon Papers is a collection of prose works written by Washington Irving, an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian who is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" ..
The Editor's Relations with the Young Contributor (from Literature and Life)
William Dean HowellsWilliam Dean Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". One of the trustiest jokes of the humorous paragrapher is that the edi..
The Evidence in the Case
James M. BeckThe Evidence in the Case, A Discussion of the Moral Responsibility for the War of 1914, as Disclosed by the Diplomatic Records of England, Germany, Russia.Introduction from the book:For five months no..
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
Charles DickensThe Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in 1848. It is the fifth and last of Dickens's Christmas novellas.The story centers ..