Classicly Collection of Books

Look to the Stars

Willard Hawkins

Not waiting for a reply, he heaped on chunks of pine log from the half-filled woodbox and soon had a rousing fire. MCGruder and the girl knelt gratefully in front of the blaze—the girl shivering. Not ..

Pictures by Gavarni

Paul Gavarni

The following pictures are selected from the two volumes of Gavarni’s “Œuvres Choisies” published by Hetzel, Paris, 1846-8. In choosing them the publishers have been careful to exclude any illustratio..

Tourists to Terra

Mack Reynolds

The stop at Troy, had, as a rule, been a successful one. The Greeks and their opponents were both highly superstitious and readily accepted the presence of the aliens from space as Gods taking place i..

Autobiography of Mother Jones

Mary Harris Jones

Mother Jones is essentially an individualist. Her own emotions and ideas are so strong that she is sometimes in conflict with others, fighting for the same cause. This too is an old story; the real le..

How to Become a Lightning Calculator

Anonymous

How to Become a Lightning Calculator by Anonymous author.Instantaneous Addition.How to Add Two Columns at Once.Multiplication.Accurate Interest.Equation of Payments.The Lightning Calculator’s Add..

Thoughts on South Africa

Olive Schreiner

These papers, written by one who had for years lived among the Boers, sharing their daily life and understanding their language, of necessity attempt to delineate, not only the coarse external shell o..

What Inhabits Me?

Robert Moore Williams

The military ran Pluto Station, manned it, supplied it, armed it, and used it as a base for keeping watch for mythical intruders who might come wandering into the system from the far-off seas of space..

Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D.

Silas Xavier Floyd

The difficulty of writing good biographies is so great that comparatively few great biographies have been written. All the world is familiar with the unique biography of Johnson by Boswell. It has exc..