Classicly Collection of Books

Woman's World

Robert Silverberg

No. No dream. I was at least wide-awake enough to tell that. The women were battling furiously; I was being shunted back and forth from one to another. I was starting to feel like a plaything. So I st..

Kill Me if You Can!

Randall Garrett

He had learned, all right. The Commander had selected him as a double for the Autarch himself! Every citizen of the planet Apollyon had his mental and physical characteristics on file in the Master Re..

The Three Thieves of Japetus

Mark Reinsberg

Jake shook his head impatiently. "Can't you see? This is an emergency shipment of oxygen for Titan. Their reserves are just about gone. They figured it would take about ten days to check the entire do..

An Almond for a Parrot - Being a reply to Martin Mar-Prelate

John Petheram

The internal evidence in favour of Nash, as the author of the Almond for a Parrot, is very strong; and cannot but appear to any one who is conversant with his “Christ’s Tears over Jerusalem,” a work c..

Greek Tragedy in the Light of Vase Paintings

John H. Huddilston

The present work represents an attempt to bring this material together in a convenient and accessible form. The first chapter, which deals with the influence of tragedy on other classes of monuments, ..

Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut

James Mars

I came to Norfolk on a visit at the time the war broke out, and some in Norfolk remember that I was once a slave. They asked me about it; I told them something about it; they seemed to take an interes..

Rudimentary Architecture for the Use of Beginners

W. H. Leeds

It is important that an elementary treatise,—more particularly if it profess to be a popular one, intended for the use of beginners as well as for professional students,—should not only give rules, bu..

The Dark Road - further adventures of Chéri-Bibi

Gaston Leroux

Arigonde bore a deadly hatred against the Nut for having deposed him from his position as the "man of fashion" in the Îles du Salut. Until the Nut came upon the scene it was Arigonde who wielded the s..