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The Defendant

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


A collection of reprinted articles on a wide-range of subjects, all in the unique style of G. K. Chesterton. Using wit, paradox, and good hu…

George Bernard Shaw

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G. K. Chesterton


Chesterton and Shaw were famous friends and enjoyed their arguments and discussions. Although rarely in agreement, they both maintained good…

A Miscellany of Men

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G. K. Chesterton


Gilbert Keith Chesterton was among the world's most prolific writers who incorporated relentless logic, wonderful humor, and a clear view of…

Europe and the Faith

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Hilaire Belloc


The Catholic brings to history (when I say "history" in these pages I mean the history of Christendom) self-knowledge. As a man in…

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

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G. K. Chesterton


“These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries o…

Alarms and Discursions

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G. K. Chesterton


Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, p…

Irish Impressions

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


“For the Irish Question has never been discussed in England. Men have discussed Home Rule; but those who advocated it most warmly, and as I …

Varied Types

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G. K. Chesterton


Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he …

Lord Kitchener

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G. K. Chesterton


“The paradox of all this part of his life lies in this--that, destined as he was to be the greatest enemy of Mahomedanism, he was quite exce…

Robert Browning

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G. K. Chesterton


There is an old anecdote, probably apocryphal, which describes how a feminine admirer wrote to Browning asking him for the meaning of one of…

First and Last

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Hilaire Belloc


“When a man weighs anchor in a little ship or a large one he does a jolly thing! He cuts himself off and he starts for freedom and for the c…

On Anything

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Hilaire Belloc


Long before I knew that the speech of men was misused by them and that they lied in the hearing of the gods perpetually, in those early days…

On Nothing & Kindred Subjects

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Hilaire Belloc


“I knew a man once, Maurice, who was at Oxford for three years, and after that went down with no degree. At College, while his friends were …

On Something

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Hilaire Belloc


“Now that story is a symbol, and tells the truth. We see some one thing in this world, and suddenly it becomes particular and sacramental; a…

Wild Animals I Have Known

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Ernest Thompson Seton


A BOOK THAT CHANGED AMERICA... Ernest Thompson Seton was an influential naturalist, and a sometime professional hunter and trapper. Much of…

Biography of a Grizzly

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Ernest Thompson Seton


"The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end," as Ernest Thompson Seton said. This is the story of Metitsi Wahb, born a pl…

MONARCH: the Big Bear of Tallac

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Ernest Thompson Seton


Ernest Thompson Seton's book, "Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac." Published in 1919, it tells the story of a tiny Grizzly cub who g…

The Beasts of Tarzan

Read by James Christopher


Edgar Rice Burroughs


This is the third of Burrough's Tarzan novels. Originally serialized in All-Story Cavalier magazine in 1914, the novel was first published i…

The Shadow of Black Wings

Read by James Calbraith


James Calbraith


It is the Sixteenth Year of Queen Victoria. In the powerful empire of Dracaland, Bran, a young dragon rider, joins his father on a military …

Quantum Mechanics

Read by James Binney


James Binney


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