Classicly Collection of Books

The World of Chance

William Dean Howells

The next evening, under a rich, mild October sky, the train drew in towards New York over a long stretch of trestle-work spanning a New Jersey estuary. Ray had thriftily left his sleeper at the statio..

The Last Plunge

Samuel J. Sackett

volution had been kind to the air lion of Uranus. To the only animal inhabitant of a planet whose surface temperature is -180 degrees Centigrade, Evolution had granted the thickest fur coat of any ani..

Wanted - One Sane Man

Frank M. Robinson

The center of the whirlpool was the glassed-in office, with the name WHITEFORD on the door—nothing else. Whiteford himself, neatly dressed in a business suit with creases sharp enough to shave with, w..

Elementary Course in Woodwork

George Alexander Ross

The character and object of this book is set forth on its title page. It is a manual designed principally for the practical assistance of students in elementary woodwork in the Lewis Institute.Part on..

Lord Alistair's Rebellion

Allen Upward

On the midmost arch of Westminster Bridge a young man stood alone, leaning over the parapet, and sounding with his eyes the black depth of the water below. His whole air and appearance were out of har..

The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900

Arthur Quiller-Couch

For this Anthology I have tried to range over the whole field of English Verse from the beginning, or from the Thirteenth Century to this closing year of the Nineteenth, and to choose the best. Glosse..

The Pioneer

Irving E. Cox

Greg's shoulders sagged as he walked toward the central square of Port City. He had to see the monument again. He had to drain the last bitterness from his homecoming. In the Martian colony they had t..

After the Manner of Men

Francis Lynde

Harboring this distrust, he was content for the moment to make himself small behind his tree, sitting between two of the flanking root buttresses with his back against the barrier trunk, and wincing i..