Classicly Collection of Books

The Pioneer Home

Anonymous

Since 1858 the property has had a number of owners, including an Elizabeth Morris, who bought it in 1856 and lived there for 30 years. Whether she was related to the builder of the house is not known...

A Gentleman of Leisure

P. G. Wodehouse

Jimmy Pitt had now definitely ousted Love, the Cracksman, as a topic of conversation. Everybody present knew him. Most of them had known him in his newspaper days; and though every man there would hav..

Antonia

George Sand

While Julien and his mother were engaged in the conversation we have just reported, two other persons were talking in a dainty little salon of the aforesaid hôtel d'Estrelle, a cool, homelike apartmen..

Early Man Projectile Points in the Southwest

Kenneth Honea

Points used by Early Man were likely thrown at game with a spear-thrower or atl-atl, rather than shot at them with a bow and arrow. Atl-atls were probably of wood, and had a long groove on one side. I..

The Conchologist's First Book

Edgar Allan Poe

The Conchologist's First BookA System of Testaceous Malacology, Arranged Expressly for the Use of Schools, in Which the Animals, According to Cuvier, Are Given With the Shells, a Great Number of New S..

Beyond the Ultra-Violet

Frank M. Robinson

The treatments began immediately. First, adaptation of vision to a dark room, like those used for flyers during the war. Then the drops of black liquid that the professor had invented, slowly spreadin..

Come Into My Brain!

Robert Silverberg

The Dimellian was larger than life and twice as ugly. It was an idealized, self-glorified mental image Harrell faced. The captured Dimellian was about five feet tall, thick-shouldered, with sturdy, co..

Get Out of My Body!

Tom W. Harris

On Clinch Street, little Sally Odum was walking home from school. She turned down an alley for a shortcut, and there she saw the toy. It was a black, fringed globe, a little larger than a grapefruit. ..