Classic Books: 39 books

* Illustrated * Author Biography  * Interactive Table of Contents The Prophet The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry essays written in English by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's...

L'Abîme By: Charles et Wilkie Dickens Collins Après avoir abandonné son enfant à sa naissance à l'Hospice des Enfants Trouvés, une jeune mère prise de remords le récupère à l'âge de douze ans. Walter Wilding connaît...

* Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents The Science Of Getting Rich The Science of Getting Rich is a book written by the New Thought Movement writer Wallace D. Wattles; it was published in 1910 by the Elizabeth Towne Company. The book is still in print after...

* Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents Last And First Men [ Illustrated ] Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a "future history" science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon. A work of unprecedented...

Illustrated Biographie de l'auteur Table des matières interactive Emma Emma est un roman de la femme de lettres anglaise Jane Austen, publié anonymement (A Novel. By the author of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice) en décembre 1815. C'est un roman...

* Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents A Book Of Five Rings The Book of Five Rings (五輪書 Go Rin No Sho?) is a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi circa 1645. There have been various translations...

Beyond the Black River is one of the original stories about Conan the Cimmerian (Conan The Barbarian), written by pulp author Robert E. Howard, the writer to whom the "Sword and Sorcery" genre is usually credited, and first published in Weird Tales magazine. Considered by many to be the...

Illustrated Biographie de l'auteur Table des matières interactive La Dame aux Camelias La Dame aux camélias est un roman d’Alexandre Dumas fils publié en 1848, inspiré par son amour pour la courtisane Marie Duplessis. La Dame aux camélias a inspiré...

“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own.” Thus begins one of the most terrifying and morally prescient science fiction novels ever penned. Beginning...

This book is a wonderful work of fiction by H.G. Wells, the author of "The Time Machine." It is the tale of a fallen angel who simply cannot adapt to society in a small English village. The angel's reactions to the villagers, his pureness and wholesomeness make him an enemy of the people....

So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era—and the story that launched H.G. Wells’s successful career and earned him the reputation as the father of science fiction. With a speculative leap that still fires the imagination, Wells...