Classicly Collection of Books

Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture

Palmer Cox

I have been sitting by my window most of the day, watching gentlemen—who were not so fortunate as myself. And I notice with considerable pain—for as reader and writer cannot understand each other too ..

Machine of Klamugra

Allen Kim Lang

Everybody wanted Joey, naturally. I'd have wanted him myself if I hadn't learned from the Mimasan natives, who are as rare as smileys and a damned sight less friendly, that chewing khiff roots would i..

Oh Mesmerist From Mimas!

Roger D. Aycock

Joey's euphoric appeal should have had the traders scrambling for him, but I had underestimated his effect. They wanted him, sure, but the brotherly love he instilled in them made every buyer, Earth h..

Secrets of Making Frozen Desserts at Home

Anonymous

To make Sandwiches: Cut cake into slices, cut slices of ice cream and put between slices of cake. Decorate with powdered macaroons.Scoop out the pulp of well-flavored cantaloupes and half fill tall le..

The Irish Guards in the Great War, Volume 1 (of 2)

Rudyard Kipling

These volumes try to give soberly and with what truth is possible, the experiences of both battalions of the Irish Guards from 1914 to 1918. The point of view is the battalions’, and the facts mainly ..

The Kingdom of Promise and Prophecy

R. L. Whiteside

In editing and arranging the writings contained in this book, I used some lifted from religious journals and some that was still in manuscript form. For their courtesy extended to me in allowing me to..

The Painted Veil

W. Somerset Maugham

The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet, which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life"..

Cookie 'n' Cracker Cookin'

Jeanette Hindman Elliott

THE BOWMAN BISCUIT COMPANY, division of United Biscuit Company of America, under the brand name of Supreme Bakers, has served generations of Westerners. Starting in 1906, with five types of Cookies ’n..