Classicly Collection of Books

Appreciations, With An Essay on Style

Walter Horatio Pater

Appreciations, With An Essay on Style written by Walter Horatio Pater...

Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake

Rev. W. Tcikwell

It is just eleven years since Kinglake passed away, and his life has not yet been separately memorialized.  A few years more, and the personal side of him would be irrecoverable, though by person..

An anthology of German literature

Calvin Thomas

This book is designed to accompany an introductory study of the history of German literature. It is assumed that the history itself will be learned, so far as necessary, either from lectures or from s..

An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The Eton College Manuscript

Thomas Gray

To some the eighteenth-century definition of proper poetic matter is unacceptable; but to any who believe that true poetry may (if not "must") consist in "what oft was thought but ne'er so well expres..

An Essay on Criticism

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope. It is the source of the famous quotations "To err is human, to forgive divine," "A little learning i..

Anomalies of the Short Story

William Dean Howells

The interesting experiment of one of our great publishing houses in putting out serially several volumes of short stories, with the hope that a courageous persistence may overcome the popular indiffer..

The American Credo

H.L. Mencken

The superficial, no doubt, will mistake this little book for a somewhat laborious attempt at jocosity. Because, incidentally to its main purpose, it unveils occasional ideas of so inordinate an errone..

The Art of the Exposition

Eugen Neuhaus

It is generally conceded that the essential lesson of the Exposition is the lesson of art. However strongly the industrial element may have asserted itself in the many interesting exhibits, no matter ..