Classicly Collection of Books

A Town Is Drowning

Frederik Pohl

Mickey Groff wasn't much of a waiter. There wasn't a showdog's chance of a car stopping to help him, of course—even if one came by, they'd hardly be able to see him. Anyway, Sam's Grocery couldn't be ..

Irritability - A Physiological Analysis

Max Verworn

The lectures on irritability here published were held at the University of Yale in October, 1911. The physiologist, the zoölogist, the botanist, the psychologist, the pathologist, have to deal, d..

Let Us Kiss and Part

Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

Madame Barto’s ideas of a parlormaid seemed rather confused, for her gloomy little brick house had no occupants save herself and Jessie, and before business hours in the morning she and Jessie did up ..

Stained Glass Windows - An Essay

William Frederic Faber

Individualism, let us realize, is not what the Church should foster: though individuality, in its rightful place, be precious and sacred. The application here is not fanciful. Sadly absurd examples th..

Two Years Among New Guinea Cannibals

A. E. Pratt

This record of two years’ scientific work in the only country of the globe that has still escaped exploration purposely avoids the dry detail of a Natural History Report. During my brief residenc..

Bottoms Up - An Application of the Slapstick to Satire

George Jean Nathan

Agatha did not answer. She could not trust her voice. There was a mist before her eyes. She sat there thinking, thinking, thinking. It was just a year ago tonight that Dave, her husband, had parted fr..

Subject to Vanity

Margaret Benson

We know very little more than she did about it, we know just the bare fact that it always will be so, but why it should be so we know no more than she. Who understands the miracle by which an utterly ..

The Strange Likeness

Harriet Pyne Grove

Shirley’s mother smiled. “It would be better for you to learn more definitely, daughter, just what your classical father is going to do over there. I can assure you that we are not going to bring home..