Search

Classicly Books

Woman and Puppet

Pierre Louÿs

About twelve years ago Oscar Wilde dedicated his beautiful Salome thus: “À mon Ami Pierre Louÿs.” At that time not many gentlemen in England knew the name of the writer who was to become famous throug..

Flower of the North - A Modern Romance

James Oliver Curwood

There was a chuckling note of pleasure in Philip Whittemore's voice as he leaned half across the table, his handsome face, bronzed by snow and wind, illumined in the lamp-glow. Gregson, in strong cont..

Nomads of the North

James Oliver Curwood

 Nomads of the North, A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars written by James Oliver Curwood. It was late in the month of March, at the dying-out of the Eagle Moon, that Neewa the ..

Yama [The Pit], a Novel in Three Parts

A. I. Kuprin

Alexandre I. Kuprin was born in 1870; 1909 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of his literary activity. He attained his fame only upon the publication of his amazing, epical novel, "The Duel"—which, ..

Famous Affinities of History - The Romance of Devotion. Volume 4

Lyndon Orr

Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 4 by Lyndon Orr.Dean Swift And The Two EsthersPercy Bysshe Shelley And Mary GodwinThe Story Of The CarlylesThe Story Of The HugosThe ..

Peter Bell the Third

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is this particular advantage in an acquaintance with any one of the Peter Bells, that if you know one Peter Bell, you know three Peter Bells; they are not one, but three; not three, but one. An ..

The Ethics of the Dust

John Ruskin

The Ethics of the Dust is a collection of  lectures, were really given, in substance, at a girls' school (far in the country); which, in the course of various experiments on the possibility of in..

The Flaming Forest

James Oliver Curwood

An hour ago, under the marvelous canopy of the blue northern sky, David Carrigan, Sergeant in His Most Excellent Majesty's Royal Northwest Mounted Police, had hummed softly to himself, and had thanked..