Classicly Collection of Books

King Midas - a Romance

Upton Sinclair

In the course of this story, the author has had occasion to refer to Beethoven's Sonata Appassionata as containing a suggestion of the opening theme of the Fifth Symphony. He has often seen this state..

Legends of Charlemagne

Thomas Bulfinch

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. But if that which..

Paste Jewels

John Kendrick Bangs

It may interest the readers of this collection of tales, if there should be any such, to know that the incidents upon which the stories are based are unfortunately wholly truthful.  They have one..

The Age of Fable

Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch was a native of Boston, Mass., where he was born in 1796. His boyhood was spent in that city, and he prepared for college in the Boston schools. He finished his scholastic training at ..

The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig - A Novel

David Graham Phillips

Arkwright glanced from the parlor where he was sitting into the gloom of the open bathroom and back again. His cynical brown-green eyes paused upon a scatter of clothing, half-hiding the badly-rubbed ..

The Blind Spot

Austin Hall

The Blind Spot opens with the words: “Perhaps it were just as well to start at the beginning. A mere matter of news.” Suppose I use them in the same sense:A mere matter of news: The first instalment o..

Young Canada's Nursery Rhymes

Various Authors

 There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile,  He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile:  He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,  And they all li..

The Heart of Rachael

Kathleen Thompson Norris

The day had opened so brightly, in such a welcome wave of April sunshine, that by mid-afternoon there were two hundred players scattered over the links of the Long Island Country Club at Belvedere Bay..