Classicly Books
That Marvel—The Movie
Edward S. Van ZileTo grasp the past progress, the present significance and the future possibilities of the motion picture; to express them with restraint and yet with clarity.The other arts are old. Music was born with..
The Charterhouse of Parma, Volume 1
StendhalM. Beyle has written a book in which sublimity glows from chapter after chapter. He has produced, at an age when men rarely find monumental subjects and after having written a score of extremely intel..
A Girl of To-day
Ellinor Davenport AdamsThe boy’s face, uplifted to his sister’s, was full of the happy enthusiasm which feels itself secure of sympathy; and Frances’s heart beat high with pleasure because her welcome home was of this joyfu..
Birthday Present
Arnold MarmorDiane got out first and made sure the way was clear. "We'll use the back stairs," she said when she got back. "We both can manage him." It was dark and it was late and we didn't see anybody. We went t..
Horse Sense in Verses Tense
Walt MasonWhy do people ever write any other kind of books, unless because no one else can write Walt Mason’s kind?. His is an extraordinary faculty, surely God-given. Many a world-weary one, refreshed at the f..
Messenger
William MorrisonHis astronomical memory, insofar as it covered the post-nova period, was perfect, and he paid more attention to the details of star-and-planet configuration than he had ever done before. Gradually a s..
The Charterhouse of Parma, Volume 2
StendhalWhile Fabrizio was in pursuit of love, in a village near Parma, the Fiscal General Rassi, who did not know that he was so near, continued to treat his case as though he had been a Liberal: he pretende..
The Incredible Aliens
William BenderNarant tried to concentrate on the scrambling activity in the control center, but his rebellious mind would have none of it. Unwanted memories rose up to haunt him. He had been assigned to this trip m..