Classicly Books
The Upton Letters
Arthur Christopher BensonThese letters were returned to me, shortly after the death of the friend to whom they were written, by his widow. It seems that he had been sorting and destroying letters and papers a few days before ..
Tom Swift in Captivity
Victor AppletonTom Swift closed the book of adventures he had been reading, tossed it on the table, and got up. Then he yawned."What's the matter?" asked his chum, Ned Newton, who was deep in another volume."Oh, I t..
Where No Fear Was - A Book About Fear
Arthur Christopher BensonThere surely may come a time for each of us, if we have lived with any animation or interest, if we have had any constant or even fitful desire to penetrate and grasp the significance of the strange a..
Basil
Wilkie CollinsBasil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He stalks her and discovers she is M..
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
Charles ReadeReaders hardened by the Times will not perhaps go so far as to weep over a body of traders for being reduced to the average condition of all other traders. But the individual trader, who fights for ex..
In the Wilderness
Robert HichensAmedeo Dorini, the hall porter of the Hotel Cavour in Milan, stood on the pavement before the hotel one autumn afternoon in the year 1894, waiting for the omnibus, which had gone to the station, and w..
Papa Hamlet
Bjarne P. HolmsenNoch um eine Nuance verdsterter hatte sich jetzt der groáe Thienwiebel wieder rcklings ber das kleine, niedrige, mit blauem Kattun berspannte Sofa geworfen und starrte nun ber die Spitzen seiner grnen..
The Clique of Gold
Emile GaboriauThere is not in all Paris a house better kept or more inviting-looking than No. 23 in Grange Street. As soon as you enter, you are struck by a minute, extreme neatness, which reminds you of Holland, a..