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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…

Bamboo and the Turtle

In A Chinese Wonder Book

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Norman Hinsdale Pitman


The Chinese Wonder Book is a compilation of Chinese folk tales for children full of moral values and insightful stories of China's culture a…

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.

Chapter 5: Spenser and His Friends

In England's Antiphon

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George MacDonald


"In this book I have sought to trace the course of our religious poetry from an early period of our literary history. ... [I]f its poet…

Letter X - Mesmerism

In Popular Superstitions, and the Truths Contained Therein

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Herbert Mayo


"In the following Letters I have endeavoured to exhibit in their true light the singular natural phenomena of which old superstition an…

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…

A Rhyme about an Electrical Advertising Sign - Read by DBG

In A Rhyme about an Electrical Advertising Sign

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Vachel Lindsay


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Rhyme about an Electrical Advertising Sign by Vachel Lindsay.This was the Weekly Poetry pro…

The Incarnation (Luke 2:13-14)

In Practical Sermons

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Archibald Alexander


The sermons contain what the author believes to be evangelical truth, in the exhibition of which, his aim has been to render the gospel pers…