Classicly Collection of Books

Modern Swedish Masterpieces - Short Stories

Charles Wharton Stork

The four authors here included are all living and active, from which it may be rightly inferred that the Swedish short story is of recent development. Verner von Heidenstam, born in 1859, winner of th..

The Lightning's Course

John Victor Peterson

The robot stirred restlessly and moved at length across a room littered with parts of others of its kind. Its blue photocellular eyes peered out into the starshot Martian sky. Could it know that its c..

Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer

Henry Dawson

In the year 185- I was running an engine on the —— road. My engine was named the Racer, and a "racer" she was, too; her driving-wheels were seven feet in diameter, and she could turn them about as fas..

The Way Back

Sam Moskowitz

Self-consciously he ambled along the spotless streets behind Persum—streets which seemed to be paved with pure gold. He tried not to notice the open stares given him by the city's inhabitants. He real..

Practicable Socialism, New Series

S. A. Barnett

The book begins with The Religion of the People and Cathedral Reform, for Canon Barnett held with unvarying certainty that—to quote his own words—“there is no other end worth reaching than the knowled..

Service by the Educated Negro

Roscoe Conkling Bruce

Teaching is an art inseparable from the personality of the teacher,—an art in which a mature person seeks by personal influence to help immature persons build their characters soundly. Teaching abilit..

The Alhambra

Albert Frederick Calvert

The Alhambra may be likened to an exquisite opera which can only be appreciated to the full when one is under the spell of its magic influence. But as the witchery of an inspired score can be recalled..

The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 05

William Hazlitt

Poetry then is an imitation of nature, but the imagination and the passions are a part of man’s nature. We shape things according to our wishes and fancies, without poetry; but poetry is the most emph..