Classicly Collection of Books

Chicken Farm

Ross Rocklynne

For years the Asteroid Association had offered a flat rate of one thousand credits to anybody who gave them the location of genuine asteroid-juncture faults. They were engaged in a strictly scientific..

Dante and the early astronomers

Mary Acworth Orr

The story of this development is of enthralling interest, and after the system had been completed by one of the greatest mathematicians the world has seen, its later history reads like a romance. Thou..

Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose

Willis John Abbott

Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose written by Willis J. Abbott is a  complete story of Panama, as well as the history, purpose and promise of its world-famous canal—the most gigantic engin..

Planet in Reverse

Henry Guth

Before venturing out the airlock, he made a superficial check of the gravity plates. Not too bad. He could probably repair them in less than the seventy hours he'd thought he would need. The radio was..

Roman Stoicism

E. Vernon Arnold

The view taken in this book corresponds generally to that taken by the writers named. Shortly expressed, it regards Stoicism as the bridge between ancient and modern philosophical thought; a position ..

Skid Row Pilot

Randall Garrett

Stiffly he rolled over. The chilling winds of Mars came roaring down to bite at him. He was lying in the gutter outside the Space Service office, sprawled out with one hand lying casually along the si..

The Origin of the Mound Builders

Alfred Oscar Coffin

The growth of civilization has always been along the courses of great rivers—the Nile, Euphrates, Ganges, Hoangho, Danube, the Mississippi and Ohio. The Mound-builders were an agricultural people, for..

Biblical Revision, its duties and conditions

Henry Alford

Now we in this land possess a version of the Holy Scriptures which may challenge comparison for faithfulness, for simplicity, and for majesty, with any that the world has ever seen.  Perhaps its ..