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Irish Impressions

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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…

MOSTLY POSSIBILITIES

In The Mummy and Miss Nitocris: A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension

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George Griffith


" Certain it should be that, beyond and about this World of Length, and Breadth, and Thickness, there is another World, or State of Exi…

Volume II Chapter IX

In Violet Osborne - Trilogy

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Emily Ponsonby


"This book is in turns funny and sad. Violet Osborne is a very beloved child with no financial problems. She is both beautiful and good…

Richard II - Richard - I have been studying how I may compare

In Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 17 (Multilingual)

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William Shakespeare


This is the 17th edition of the Shakespeare Monologues Collection, in which Librivox volunteers bring you their favorite characters' monolog…

Introduction Part 1

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…

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