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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…

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…

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…

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…

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, …

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 …

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.

My Real Estate

In A Rambler's Lease

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Bradford Torrey


The writer of this little book has found so much pleasure in other men's woods and fields that he has come to look upon himself as in some s…

CHAPTER XIII.— Other Branches of the Work

In Invisible Helpers

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C. W. Leadbeater


Even in this incredulous age, and amidst the full whirl of our nineteenth-century civilization, in spite of the dogmatism of our science and…

BERLIN—6 P.M. TO 7 P.M.

In Around the clock in Europe: A travel sequence

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Charles Fish Howell


In this travelog, the author takes us on a tour of European cities, giving snapshots at given times of the day from midday til midnight.

GRANDPA CROAKER AND UNCLE WIGGILY

In Bully and Bawly No-Tail (the Jumping Frogs)

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Howard R. Garis


"Once upon a time, not so very many years ago, there were two little frog boys who lived in a little pond near a nice big farm. It wasn…