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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…

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…

Chapter X. The Revolution and the Revolution Settlement in Great Britain. (1) E…

In The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 05, The Age of Louis XIV

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Various


The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…

In Old Marshfield

In Literary Pilgrimages of a Naturalist

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Winthrop Packard


Noted American Naturalist, Winthrop Packard, who gave us such titles as “Woodland Pastures,” “Wood Wanderings,” and “Wildwood Ways,” now tak…

The Burrowing Owl

In Our Western Birds

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Elizabeth Grinnell and Joseph Grinnell


This mother and son team, each distinguished in their field, collaborate to give charming portraits of common birds of the western United St…

Selected excerpts by Erasmus

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 14

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Various


The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Canto 3 Stanza 13-17

In The Corsair

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George Gordon, Lord Byron


The Corsair (1814) by Lord Byron narrates the tale of Conrad, a pirate or privateer, who was rejected by society in his youth because of his…

Wood Roads

In Woodland Paths

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Winthrop Packard


American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, takes us on a wandering journey into the woods, alerting us to the many inhabitants and their habitat…

Martha and Mary - part II, their different kinds of grief, and the Lord's diffe…

In Scripture Characters

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Robert Smith Candlish


Nineteen studies of figures from the Bible - some well-known and some obscure. The discourses were originally written as sermons and then re…

If I knew What Poets Know - Read by DBG

In If I knew What Poets Know

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James Whitcomb Riley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of If I knew What Poets Know by James Whitcomb Riley.This was the Weekly Poetry project for July…

The Mind's Eye - Read by DBG

In The Mind's Eye

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Marcus Clarke


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Mind's Eye by Marcus Clarke.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 28, 2020. …