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A Year with the Birds

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W. Warde Fowler


William Warde Fowler was a true polymath; although his early studies focused on natural history, he became a well-known authority on the his…

The Astral Plane: Its Inhabitants, Scenery, and Phenomena

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C. W. Leadbeater


Few words are needed in sending this little book out into the world. It is the fifth of a series of Manuals designed to meet the public dema…

William Blake

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G. K. Chesterton


From the author’s introduction: "Blake’s life of Blake … would have been full of symbolic wild beasts and naked women, of monstrous cl…

Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot

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Wilkie Collins


Two travellers, the writer of this book, and an artist friend who is the companion of his ramble, explored Cornwall together, on foot in the…

Practical Mysticism (Version 2)

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Evelyn Underhill


I write only for the larger class which, repelled by the formidable appearance of more elaborate works on the subject, would yet like to kno…

Orthodoxy (Version 3)

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G. K. Chesterton


… [In] its pages I have attempted in a vague and personal way, in a set of mental pictures rather than in a series of deductions, to state t…

Robert Browning (Version 2)

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G. K. Chesterton


This mystery of the unconscious man, far deeper than any mystery of the conscious one, existing as it does in all men, existed peculiarly in…

A Christmas Sermon

In Christmas Short Works Collection 2022

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Robert Louis Stevenson


The 2022 Christmas collection brings some old favourites along with some new selections, from the traditional to the bizarre. Among the sele…

The Owl-Critic

In Short Poetry Collection 208

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James Thomas Fields


This is a collection of 67 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2020.

Chapter 14

In The Critique of Dogmatic Theology

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Leo Tolstoy


More systematic, but no less sincere than A Confession (which originally served as the introduction to this work), The Critique of Dogmatic …

Letter X - Mesmerism

In Popular Superstitions, and the Truths Contained Therein

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Herbert Mayo


"In the following Letters I have endeavoured to exhibit in their true light the singular natural phenomena of which old superstition an…

The Panama Canal

In Prowling About Panama

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George A. Miller


In 1903, Panama became a brand new state in Central America by seceding from Colombia in order to facilitate the construction of the Panama …

The Elusive Companion of Parson White

In Tales of the Long Bow

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G. K. Chesterton


These tales concern the doing of things recognized as impossible to do; impossible to believe; and, as the weary reader may well cry aloud, …

Introduction

In A Theory of Monads: Outlines of the Philosophy of the Principle of Relativity

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Herbert Wildon Carr


Since the publication of this book, a little more than a year ago, the interest in Einstein and the principle of relativity has very greatly…