Classicly Collection of Books

The Young Supercargo - A Story of the Merchant Marine

William Drysdale

Patrolman McSweeny had been a Brooklyn policeman long enough to understand all the favorite police ways of stirring out homeless tramps who are so desperately wicked as to go to sleep in the warmest c..

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art - Fifth Series, No. 52, Vol. I

Chambers' Journal

Old Mrs Prescott, who still lived, shared with her son and daughter the pleasure of Abe’s return, and the young Randolphs listened with delight to such an interesting romance. And yet—truth compels me..

Gunnison's Bonanza

Dick Purcell

Sullen resentment welled up in Gunnison. He had read his history and he knew how things had changed. In the old days back on Terra, men were given freedom to seek and find. Why, once they opened half ..

Nick Carter Stories No. 136

Nicholas Carter

Nick Carter nodded, without speaking. He understood the situation very well. There was nothing to be gained by questioning Claudia further. They got to the gateway of Crownledge, and Chick opened the ..

The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The story of Perkin Warbeck was first suggested to me as a subject for historical detail. On studying it, I became aware of the romance which his story contains, while, at the same time, I felt that i..

The Heir

Sydney C. Grier

The Professor arrived the next day, casting keen, curious glances about him. The sober stateliness of the house, the old family servants, the unobtrusive perfection of every detail indoors and out, an..

Traitor's Choice

Paul W. Fairman

Kendall thought of Clare, trying the while to keep his panic from showing through. Blonde, beautiful Clare—the one person who really made his life worth living. Clare. As he worked at this brutal, ted..

Animal Life in Field and Garden

Jean-Henri Fabre

The other twelve will come some day, my boy; at present you have the right number of teeth for a child of your age. They do not all come at one time, but one after another. We begin with twenty, and n..