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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…

How the Whale Got His Throat

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 038

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Rudyard Kipling


Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 038: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

North Shields: Stevenson Street

In The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain

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John Henry Ingram


Possibly no part in the world is more connected in our minds to hauntings, ghost sightings and gruesome legends than Great Britain with its …

China (Prefatory Note and Introductory)

In Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3

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Charles Eliot


Started in 1907, An Historical Sketch was a work in 3 volumes. The author was a British diplomat posted to Asia and his great work was inter…

Of the Ordinary Benefits and Improvements by Fish

In The History of Esculent Fish

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Roger North


Roger North, son of Dudley North, 4th Baron North, was a successful member of the bar and later member of parliament. But he had wide rangi…

The Importance and Efficacy of Prayer (7:7, 8)

In Matthew, from Horae Homileticae

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Charles Simeon


Simeon's Works, as they were published 1832, fill twenty-one large octavo volumes, and the title-page reads, 'Horae Homileticae or Discourse…

Lecture II - On the Threshold of Religion: Survivals

In The Religious Experience of the Roman People

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W. Warde Fowler


A series of lectures delivered by Professor Fowler at Edinburgh University for a public audience, concerning the development and decay of t…