Classicly Books
A Likely Story
Damon KnightTom Q. Jones went by in a hurry, carrying a big camera. That was unusual; Tom Q. is head components designer for a leading radio-TV manufacturer, and has sold, I guess, about two million words of scie..
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam SmithSympathy, therefore, does not arise so much from the view of the passion, as from that of the situation which excites it. We sometimes feel for another, a passion of which he himself seems to be altog..
A Personal Problem
H. Bedford-JonesOutside the veranda the crabs were scuttling and clicking and rustling, scavenging with resistless vigor and great enthusiasm. A thin, far burst of song came from the government accommodation house, w..
Sam in the Suburbs
P. G. WodehouseHe yawned spaciously. Hash Todhunter was a lean, stringy man in the early thirties, with a high forehead and a ruminative eye. Irritated messmates who had played poker with him had sometimes compared ..
The Cap and Gown
Charles Reynolds BrownIt was one of the shrewdest and kindliest observers of student life, himself a long-time resident of Cambridge and a genial friend of Harvard men, who said: “It is a never-failing delight to behold ev..
The Importance of Marking Historic Spots
Henry W. ShoemakerThe hieroglyphics are crude affairs, but the painting on the “Picture Rocks” were said to be of rare beauty and marvelous coloration. The rocks of the Allegheny River will defy time, but the rapacious..
Caleb Conover, Railroader
Albert Payson TerhuneThe wilful coarseness and brutality of the man came as no surprise to Standish. He had expected something of the sort, and had braced himself for it. To please his aunt, whom he sincerely pitied, he h..