Classicly Collection of Books

Arohanui - Letters from Shoghi Effendi to New Zealand

Shoghi Effendi

The letters in this compilation were written by various secretaries of the Guardian at his specific direction. Spelling and other inconsistencies are a reflection of the fact that different secretarie..

As A Chinaman Saw Us - Passages from His Letters to a Friend at Home

Anonymous

Since the publication in 1832 of that classic of cynicism, The Domestic Manners of the Americans, by Mrs. Trollope, perhaps nothing has appeared that is more caustic or amusing in its treatment of Ame..

Aurelian

William Ware

This book—a sequel to Zenobia—published nearly ten years ago under the name of 'Probus,' was soon republished, in several places abroad, under that of 'Aurelian.' So far from complaining of the innova..

Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey

Orville Dewey

IT is about twenty-five years since, at my earnest desire, my father began to write some of the memories of his own life, of the friends whom he loved, and of the noteworthy people he had known; and i..

Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2

Ludwig van Beethoven

The Adjutant's innocence is admitted, and there is an end of it!We beg you to be so good as to send us two copies in score of the Symphony in A. We likewise wish to know when we may expect a copy of t..

Billy Baxter's Letters

William J. Kountz, Jr

In presenting this work, we believe that an explanation is due the reader as to why the letters are given in their present form at this time. The first book published, "One Night," was "issued by The ..

The American Spirit in Literature

Bliss Perry

The United States of America has been from the beginning in a perpetual change. The physical and mental restlessness of the American and the temporary nature of many of his arrangements are largely du..

Adventures among Books

Andrew Lang

Of the Essays in this volume “Adventures among Books,” and “Rab’s Friend,” appeared in Scribner’s Magazine; and “Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson” (to the best of the author’s memory) in The No..