Classic World Literature eBooks
Boyhood
Classic World Literature, by Leo TolstoyAutobiography. Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist, educational reformer, moral thinker, and an influential member of the Tolstoy family. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces...
Burgess flower book for children (1923)
Classic World Literature, by Thornton BurgessThe Works of Thornton Burgess. The Original Books Collection. Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 – June 5, 1965). Born in Sandwich, Massachusetts was a conservationist and author of children's stories. Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column, "Bedtime Stories". He was sometimes known as...
Captains Courageous
Classic World Literature, by Rudyard KiplingThe adventures of Harvey Chaney Jr., an arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon. Washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen on the Grand Banks, Harvey cannot persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince them of his wealth. However, the captain of a passing schooner offers him a job as crew until they return to port. With no other choice, Harvey accepts, and...
Cecily Parsleys Nursery Rhymes
Classic World Literature, by Beatrix PotterThe Works of Beatrix Potter. The Original Books Collection. Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author,illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.
Childhood
Classic World Literature, by Leo TolstoyCount Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist, educational reformer, moral thinker, and an influential member of the Tolstoy family. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and...
Chitra, a play in one act
Classic World Literature, by Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature andmusic. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse",he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his seemingly mesmeric personality, flowing hair, and...
Cities of the Plain (Sodom and Gomorrah) In Search of Lost Time 4
Classic World Literature, by Marcel ProustIn this fourth volume, Proust’s novel takes up for the first time the theme of homosexual love and examines how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Sodom and Gomorrah is also an unforgiving analysis of both the decadent high society of Paris and the rise of a philistine bourgeoisie that will inevitably supplant it.
Creative Unity
Classic World Literature, by Rabindranath TagoreTHE ORIGINAL BOOKS COLLECTION. Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his seemingly...
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