Classics Books: Classics via DailyLit
I use DailyLit to read classics that I missed from homeschooling and college. I have very little tim ...
Free Go»
CHAPTER I. THE LOVE-LIGHT. Long ago, in the days when our caged blackbirds never saw a king's soldier without whistling impudently, "Come ower the water to Charlie," a minister of Thrums was to be mar ...
Rating:
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales
Free Go»
In 1882, it was felt to be desirable that Mr. Harte's scattered work should be brought together in convenient form, and the result was a compact edition of five volumes. After that date, as before, he ...
Rating:
Free Go»
"An Outcast of the Islands" is my second novel in the absolute sense of the word; second in conception, second in execution, second as it were in its essence. There was no hesitation, half-formed plan ...
Free Go»
Please note that this title is in Latin....
Rating:
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Free Go»
If you ask your mother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a little girl she will say, "Why, of course, I did, child," and if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days she will say ...
Rating:
Free Go»
I. WHEN Bartley Hubbard went to interview Silas Lapham for the "Solid Men of Boston" series, which he undertook to finish up in The Events, after he replaced their original projector on that newspape ...
The Tales and Novels, Complete
Free Go»
Chateau-Thierry, and his family held a respectable position there. retirement, from which a taste for independence afterwards withdrew him. Malherbe, heard by accident, awoke in him the muse which sle ...
Free Go»
The company stood at attention, each man looking straight before him at the empty parade ground, where the cinder piles showed purple with evening. On the wind that smelt of barracks and disinfectant ...
Rating:
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Free Go»
DRAMATIS PERSONAE. THE POPE. CARDINAL OF LORRAIN. THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY. DUKE OF VANHOLT. FAUSTUS. VALDES, CORNELIUS, FRIENDS TO FAUSTUS. WAGNER, SERVANT TO FAUSTUS. CLOWN. ROBIN. RALPH. VINTNER. HOR ...
Rating:
Free Go»
MORE than three years have elapsed since the occurrence of the events recorded in this volume. The interval, with the exception of the last few months, has been chiefly spent by the author tossing ab ...
Free Go»
To begin with I wish to disclaim the possession of those high gifts of imagination and expression which would have enabled my pen to create for the reader the personality of the man who called himself ...
Rating:
Free Go»
A young woman struggles to maintain her innocence and virtue despite the pressures of a libertine rake and her restrictive family in Clarissa, Samuel Richardson’s epic eighteenth-century novel that ...
Rating:
Free Go»
Rating:
Free Go»
Edgar Allen Poe’s 1842 Pit and Pendulum is the story of a prisoner trapped in solitary confinement during the Spanish Inquisition. The prisoner’s cell is completely dark and, unable to make sense ...
Rating:
Free Go»
What ho! what ho! this fellow is dancing mad! He hath been bitten by the Tarantula. --All in the Wrong. MANY years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand ...
Rating:
Free Go»
An unforgivable act of cruelty touches off a chilling series of events in Edgar Allen Poe’s 1843 story The Black Cat. The narrator of Poe’s tale owns many pets with his wife and thinks of himself ...
Rating:
Free Go»
Love defies all obstacles in Edgar Allen Poe’s 1838 story Ligeia, though not in the way you might think. The tale’s narrator, a young man, is deeply in love with his beautiful wife Ligeia. She is ...
Rating:
Free Go»
Rating:
Recently on the Forums: Classics Go»
posted by vanessanicole21
10 Replies Add a Replyposted by swatir
3 Replies Add a ReplyClassics Books: A good classical for not English speaking people?
I'd agree with the options given by @panganod, but just to add my two cents, I'd say you should go f ...
posted by asthiggins
5 Replies Add a ReplyClassics Books: for lovers of Tolkien
Yea they are brilliant books due to re read sometime next year. Best a
You can subscribe to an RSS feed to find out as new books are added in this category.
DailyLit: Great stories and knowledge in under 5 minutes a day.
Read books online: get short installments by daily email (or RSS feed).
