Classical Reverie

Category: Novella

  • The Kreutzer Sonata

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    “They played Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata,” he finally went on to say. “Do you know the first Presto? You do know it?” he cried. “Ugh! The sonata is a terrible thing. And especially that movement! What is music? What does it do? And why does it have the effect it has? They say music has the…

  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

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    “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place. . . . With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.”  “Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little…

  • Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

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    As Gregor Sansa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for was coming to light. Written by Franz Kafka in 1912, Metamorphosis is…

  • The Anthem by Ayn Rand

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    “I am. I think. I will.” “The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.” “I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.” “Many words have been granted me, and…