Classicly Books
Tiberius the Tyrant
J. C. TarverThe political genius of a nation is shown by nothing so much as the success with which it supplements the deficiencies of its formal constitution by informal but recognized agencies. Rome was provided..
Williwaw - A Novel
Gore VidalWilliwaw is the Indian word for a big wind peculiar to the Aleutian islands and the Alaskan coast. It is a strong wind that sweeps suddenly down from the mountains toward the sea. The word williwaw, h..
Gleanings from the Note-book of a Field Geologist
Sir Archibald GeikieThose who have had experience of field-geology, know how vain it is to attempt to compress into a page or two the results of years, and that a few vague general directions are about the utmost that ca..
Martyr's Flight
Hank SearlsWalter Stanton belted himself to his desk chair and pulled out the letter from De La Rue, reading it again. He felt a surge of nostalgia at the Old Man's quaint English; the Secretary-General's white-..
Not in the Script
Arnold MarmorCaptain Shratt shrugged off all suggestion of getting a top Broadway director to handle the second assignment, that of directing the participants of the play. So Jules Barnes directed the military, th..
Salted For a Million
Nicholas CarterThat will come later. For the present, carry out your present policy—keep in the background, and do{26}n’t go about the city very much. Do not even communicate with your sister. Leave that part of it ..
Sun Tzŭ on the Art of War - The Oldest Military Treatise in the World
Lionel GilesFrom blemishes of this nature, at least, I believe that the present translation is free. It was not undertaken out of any inflated estimate of my own powers; but I could not help feeling that Sun Tzŭ ..
The Fighter
Albert Payson TerhuneConover lounged back and forth in the pretty little reception room of Desirée Shevlin’s house, halting now and then to glance with puzzled approval at some item of its furnishings. The room—the whole ..