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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Robert Browning (Version 2)

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G. K. Chesterton



This mystery of the unconscious man, far deeper than any mystery of the conscious one, existing as it does in all men, existed peculiarly in…