Classic Books

A classic is a book accepted as being exemplary or particularly noteworthy, usually of some chronological age since its original publications. What makes a book "classic" is a concern that has occurred to various authors ranging from Italo Calvino to Mark Twain and the related questions of "Why Read the Classics?" and "What Is a Classic?" have been essayed by authors from different genres and eras. The ability of a classic book to be reinterpreted, re-translated, abridged and parodied, to seemingly be renewed in the interests of generations of readers succeeding its creation, is a theme that…

Books from Classic Books

• Soldiers Three and In Black and White by Rudyard Kipling
• England and Ireland by John Stuart Mill
• John Bull's Other Island and Major Barbara Also How He Lied to Her Husband by George Bernard Shaw
• Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson
• Selected Stories from Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Crisis by Winston Churchill
• Pride and Prejudice Lit for Little Hands by Jane Austen
• Woman and Labor by Olive Schreiner
• Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf
• The Everlasting Mercy by John Masefield
• Uncle Moses by Sholem Asch
• Outlines of the History of the English Language by Ernest Classen
• The Well-Beloved A Sketch of a Temperament by Thomas Hardy
• The Benefactor A Tale of a Small Circle by Ford Madox Ford
• The Story of Roland by James Baldwin and R. B. Birch
• The North American Indian. Volume 2 - The Pima. The Papago. The Oahatika. The Mohave. The Yuma. The Maricopa. The Walapai. The Havasupai. The Apache-Mohave, or Yavapai. ~ CD-ROM EDITION by Edward S., Curtis
• Resuscitatio: Or Bringing Into Public Light Several Pieces, of the Works Civil, Historical, Philosophical, Theological, Hitherto Sleeping of the Right Honorable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban by Francis Bacon
• The Country Cousin A Comedy in Four Acts by Booth Tarkington
• Quisante by Anthony Hope
• The Promised Land by Gilbert Parker
• Cupid and Commonsense A Play in Four Parts by Arnold Bennett
• The Life and Death of Jason by William Morris
• A House of Pomegranates, A Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
• Cream of the Jest by Cabell, James Branch
• The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias George Smollett
• Dramatis Personae by Robert Browning
• The Water of Life and Other Sermons by Charles Kingsley
• Les Trophees by Jose-Maria de Heredia
• Saint's Progress by John Galsworthy
• Days of Auld Lang Syne by Ian Maclaren
• Literary Essays by John Stuart Mill
• John Barleycorn by Jack London
• The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
• A Woman of Genius by Mary H. Austin
• Trilby by George Du Maurier
• Uncollected Verses by Francis Thompson
• Seianus, His Fall by Ben Jonson
• The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim
• The Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll
• Twixt Land and Sea by Joseph Conrad