Classicly Collection of Books

Space Tug

Murray Leinster

Space Tug is a science fiction story written by Murray Leinster, who was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of science fiction and alternate history literature.Excerpts f..

The Captivi and the Mostellaria

Titus Maccius Plautus

The Captivi and the Mostellaria is a Latin comedy drama translated into English by Titus Maccius Plautus, a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works..

The Deacon of Dobbinsville

John Arch Morrison

The Deacon of Dobbinsville is a Story Based on Actual Happenings written by John A. Morrison.Preface from the book: This narrative, written and first printed some 45 or 50 years ago, depicts the ..

The English at the North Pole

Jules Verne

The novel, set in 1861, describes adventures of British expedition led by Captain John Hatteras to the North Pole. Hatteras is convinced that the sea around the pole is not frozen and his obsession is..

The Escape of Mr. Trimm

Irvin S. Cobb

The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights is a short story crime fiction stories written by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky,..

The First Hundred Thousand - Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of "K(1)"

Ian Hay

The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of "K(1)" is a personal narrative written by Major General John Hay Beith, CBE, was a British schoolmaster and soldier, but he..

The Love of Frank Nineteen

David C. Knight

The Love of Frank Nineteen is a science fiction short story written by David C. Knight.Excerpts from the book:I DIDN'T worry much about the robot's leg at the time. In those days I didn't worry m..

Una Of The Hill Country

Mary Noailles Murfree

Una Of The Hill Country is a short story written by Mary Noailles Murfree, an American fiction writer of novels and short stories who wrote under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock...