Classicly Collection of Books

Portrait of a Man with Red Hair

Hugh Walpole

The only companions, he reflected, that he had taken with him on this journey were his etchings, kinder to him, more intimate with him, rewarding him with more affection than any human being. His seve..

Stepping Westward

M. E. Francis

Mrs Roberts assented, after much murmuring and a good deal of sarcastic comment on the “neshness” of the rising generation.  There was never no talk of newralgy or oldralgy neither when she was a..

The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair

All through my seventy-one years of writing life—I started at thirteen—I have had from my readers suggestions that I should tell my own story. I put myself in the position of a veteran of many campaig..

1914

John Oxenham

They had been neighbours now for close on ten years and close friends for nine and a half of them. Noel and Honor were mischievous young things of eight when the Dares took The Red House, and in their..

A Lecture on Stained Glass

Robert Anning Bell

The practical function of stained glass is comparable with that of mosaic. Mosaic is an enrichment of the shadow. Buildings designed for mosaic usually have quite small windows, low down in the big do..

Battle for the Stars

Alexander Blade

The five governors of the five great Sectors were, all of them, ambitious men. Solleremos of Orion, Vorn of Cepheus, Gianea of Leo, Strowe of Perseus, Ferdias of Lyra—they watched each other jealously..

Captain Bill McDonald

Albert Bigelow Paine

Captain Bill McDonald is a name that in Texas and the districts lying adjacent thereto makes the pulse of a good citizen, and the feet of an outlaw, move quicker. It is the story of this man that..

Engravers and Etchers

Fitz Roy Carrington

When that most sensitive of American print-lovers, the late Francis Bullard, learned that I was to deliver at Harvard, each year, a course of lectures on the History and Principles of Engraving, he wr..