Classicly Collection of Books

A Crowned Queen

Sydney C. Grier

Clearly there was nothing left to do, and Philippa relieved the tension of the situation by spinning round wildly on one foot, while her father changed his coat, and her uncle, dissembling his impatie..

Pariah

Stephen Marlowe

Allerton subdued a wild impulse to say something flippant. Suddenly, it was as if he had indeed died out there in space and now he was a ghost, coming home to haunt people who wanted only to forget. T..

Planet of Dread

Dwight V. Swain

The girl threw herself aside barely in time. The roller missed her by scant inches. Racing on, once more it struck the ring-wall, even harder than before ... caromed off like a huge ball bouncing ... ..

Rachel and the Seven Wonders

Netta Syrett

Even before she opened them, Rachel was conscious of a delicious warmth like that of a hot midsummer day. A moment ago she had felt very chilly standing before the marble block Miss Moore called the R..

The Natural History of the Gent

Albert Smith

The Gent is of comparatively late creation. He has sprung from the original rude untutored man by combinations of chance and cultivation, in the same manner as the later varieties of fancy pippins hav..

The Sun of Saratoga

Joseph A. Altsheler

One of the men ran down from the hill where the view was better, and announced that a large body of soldiers was approaching. I called all the others and we stood to our arms, though we were convinced..

The Young Diana - An Experiment of the Future

Marie Corelli

My heroine, Diana May, wondered. She was always wondering. She spent weeks, and months, and years, in a chronic state of wonder. She wondered about herself and several other people, because she though..

A Monograph of the Trilobites of North America

Jacob Green

The head of the trilobite is also generally divided into three parts: the middle is called the front, or forehead; and the lateral portions the cheeks. In most cases, a projecting tubercle, or knob, i..