Classicly Collection of Books

Our Atomic World - The Story of Atomic Energy

C. Jackson Craven

 Nuclear energy is playing a vital role in the life of every man, woman, and child in the United States today. In the years ahead it will affect increasingly all the peoples of the earth. The nam..

The Strange Decoy

Jos. E. Badger

She sat her horse in true savage style: astride, and, with a dress fashioned for that purpose, as was hers, the effect was far from displeasing. Her dress flashed back the firelight in a thousand scin..

Winter Butterflies in Bolinas

Mary D. Barber

The Monarch Butterfly Anosia Plexippus is a familiar object in many parts of the United States, but the fact that it migrates, covering in its flights hundreds and even thousands of miles, is not gene..

A Briefe Discovrse of a Disease called the Suffocation of the Mother

Edward Iorden

    A Briefe Discovrse of a Disease called the Suffocation of the Mother. One of their signes is Insensibilitie, when they doe not feele, being pricked with a pin, or burnt wi..

An Account of the Battle of Wilson's Creek

Thomas W. Adams

After the battle of Boonville, June 17, the State forces, under Col. Marmaduke and Gov. Jackson, retreated toward the Southwest portion of the State to co-operate with the troops under Gen. Rains, and..

Impressions and experiences

William Dean Howells

My earliest memories, or those which I can make sure are not the sort of early hearsay that we mistake for remembrance later in life, concern a country newspaper, or, rather, a country printing-office..

Is Tomorrow Hitler's?

H. R. Knickerbocker

There is no such thing as winning a fight without passion. France went to war apologetically; France fought the war without music, and so France lost. History may eventually record that Britain w..

Raw Material

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Raw Material is a short stories collection by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.Raw MaterialUncle Giles“What Goes Up...”Old Man WarnerThe Ideas of M. BrodardFairfax HunterProfessor Paul Meyer“While All the..