Classicly Collection of Books

A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays

Willa Cather

Willa Siebert Cather was born in 1873 in the home of her maternal grandmother in western Virginia. Although she had been named Willela, her family always called her "Willa." Upon graduating from the U..

Censorship and Art

John Galsworthy

Since, time and again, it has been proved, in this country of free institutions, that the great majority of our fellow-countrymen consider the only Censorship that now obtains amongst us, namely the C..

Chapters of Opera

Henry Edward Krehbiel

The making of this book was prompted by the fact that with the season 1907-08 the Metropolitan Opera House in New York completed an existence of twenty-five years. Through all this period at public re..

Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare by Walter Savage Landor Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare

Walter Savage Landor

The frolic of Shakspeare in deer-stealing was the cause of his Hegira; and his connection with players in London was the cause of his writing plays.  Had he remained in his native town, his ambit..

Confessions and Criticisms

Julian Hawthorne

Julian Hawthorne was practically born to write; after all, his father, Nathaniel, was and remains considered one of America's greatest novelists. While Julian would obviously never reach the same heig..

Confessions of a Young Man

George Moore

Dear little book, what shall I say about thee? Belated offspring of mine, out of print for twenty years, what shall I say in praise of thee? For twenty years I have only seen thee in French, and in th..

Contemporary American Composers

Rupert Hughes

One day there came into Robert Schumann's ken the work of a young fellow named Brahms, and the master cried aloud in the wilderness, "Behold, the new Messiah of music!" Many have refused to accept Bra..

Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)

Alexander Whyte

John Bunyan’s Holy War was first published in 1682, six years before its illustrious author’s death.  Bunyan wrote this great book when he was still in all the fulness of his intellectual power a..