Classicly Collection of Books

Moonlight and Robots

Jerry Dunham

The book pointed out that the primary or real body had to be used at least once in the first five situations. The first contestant to correctly identify the other's real body won the game and the cont..

A Matter of Ethics

R. R. Winterbotham

Homer had a bottle of bourbon in his kitchen cabinet. The board of trustees of Faderfield Junior College frowned on faculty drinking of any sort, and of course alcoholic beverages were forbidden on th..

Colville of the Guards, Volume 1 (of 3)

James Grant

When Mary came forth into the garden again, she wore an old straw hat to save her complexion from the glares and had the smartest and most becoming of lawn-tennis aprons pinned over her dress, with Sw..

Colville of the Guards, Volume 2 (of 3)

James Grant

The next day found him among the wide and stately streets of the Modern Athens, willing to enlist in the first regiment any member of which came in his way, for he was drawing a chance in the lottery ..

Colville of the Guards, Volume 3 (of 3)

James Grant

The Vierlander had some doubts and scruples at first; but when a few twenty-groschen pieces were slipped into her hand these evaporated, and a smile of acquiescence spread over her weather-beaten but ..

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 10

Ambrose Bierce

The novel is a snow plant; it has no root in the permanent soil of literature, and does not long hold its place. It is of the lowest form of imagination—imagination chained to the perch of probability..

The magic of jewels and charms

George Frederick Kunz

Jewels, gems, stones, superstitions and astrological lore are all so interwoven in history that to treat of either of them alone would mean to break the chain of association linking them one with the ..

The Voyage of Vanishing Men

Stanley Mullen

When Braun's big break came, you heard about it from someone else, since Braun was far away, at a planet-base circling a star that was just a number in a catalog. There were no formal goodbyes out the..