Classicly Collection of Books

The Plagiarist From Rigel IV

Evan Hunter

The typewriter didn't seem to care much. It didn't form a single word. I threw the carriage all the way to the right, stalked to the closet and slammed my rainy-day hat onto my head, even though it wa..

The Scandalized Martians

Arnold Marmor

David Fry's home was a Spanish-style ranch which consisted of a herd of cattle and horses. The Martians looked like us except they had no necks and no finger or toe nails. Their leader was a giant of ..

The Sling and the Stone

Michael Shaara

On the morning of the first day, floating in the cold of space, they inflated the station. It puffed up tightly to a silvery doughnut, and four men whose names were Krylov, Mirkov, Stolyakhin and Davc..

Among Cannibals

Carl Lumholtz

In the year 1880 I undertook an expedition to Australia, partly at the expense of the University of Christiania, with the object of making collections for the zoological and zootomical museums of the ..

Peril of the Starmen

Kris Neville

Unless the planet Earth were exploded, the ever-unstable Universe, itself, would collapse. Already the binding force was dangerously diminished. If new energy were not released within a month, disinte..

Sorrow in Sunlight

Ronald Firbank

It was the hour when, fortified by a siesta, Mrs. Ahmadou Mouth was wont to approach her husband on general household affairs, and to discuss, in particular, the question of their removal to the town;..

The Art of Story-Telling

Julia Darrow Cowles

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Miss Mabel Bartleson, children’s librarian, and to Miss Ida May Ferguson, of the children’s department of the Minneapolis Public Library, for their thoughtful assist..

The Church of Sancta Sophia, Constantinople - A Study of Byzantine Building

William Richard Lethaby

Sancta Sophia is the most interesting building on the world’s surface. Like Karnak in Egypt, or the Athenian Parthenon, it is one of the four great pinnacles of architecture, but unlike them this is n..