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Forty-One Letters on Religious Subjects

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John Newton


Among the excellences which appear in all the published letters of Newton, we may mention:In the first place, the grand design — the high an…

Seed Thoughts

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Joseph Caryl


There is a work which few men possess, and which we are assured that no man alive ever ventured to read through. It is in two mighty folios,…

Heretics

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G. K. Chesterton


"Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. First published in 1905. Chesterton had a sense of humor, had a sense …

The Lost Art of Reading

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Gerald Stanley Lee


Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…

The Stark Munro Letters

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


"The letters of my friend Mr. Stark Munro appear to me to form so connected a whole, and to give so plain an account of some of the tro…

Companionable Books

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Henry van Dyke


Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed o…

Before Adam

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Jack London


Before Adam is a mixture of sound science and sci-fi speculation. It is based around Darwin's theory of evolution and the idea of racial mem…

Orthodoxy

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G. K. Chesterton


With his typical wit and erudition Chesterton presents Christianity as the best answer to a series of interlocking riddles that live in ever…

The Outline of Science, Vol 2

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J. Arthur Thomson


The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects rang…

Bacon

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Richard William Church


This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days and progresses to his relationships with Que…

Penrod and Sam

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Booth Tarkington


Follow more of the hilarious life of the boy Penrod Schofield, his friends Sam Williams, Herman, Verman, Georgie, Maurice, and the love of h…

The History Of Sir Richard Calmady

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Lucas Malet


Lucas Malet is the pen name of Mary Kingsley, daughter of Charles Kingsley. She became a hugely successful Victorian novelist, rivalling Rud…

The Outline of Science, Vol 3

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J. Arthur Thomson


The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects rang…

Heretics

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G. K. Chesterton


The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere "rollicki…

English Literature

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Geraldine Hodgson


This book is not meant to be a History of English Literature, but an introduction for those who do not know much about it, or who may be thi…

'Farewell, Nikola'

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Guy Boothby


Farewell Nikola is the fifth and last novel of the Dr Nikola series. We are reacquainted with Richard "Dick" Hatteras, former Sout…

G.K. Chesterton in The Bibliophile Magazine

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G. K. Chesterton


Two essays/articles by G.K. Chesterton, published in 'The Bibliophile' magazine in 1908. (Summary by Maria Therese)

Wit and Wisdom of Chesterton

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G. K. Chesterton


This little volume, issued as a gift book for lovers of Mr. Chesterton's writings in 1911, is made up from essays to be found in "The D…

All Things Considered

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G. K. Chesterton


Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of this day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. These r…

The Illustrated Key to the Tarot

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L. W. De Laurence


L.W. de Laurence, an occult and spiritual author and publisher, not only provides a history of the Tarot for fortune-telling purposes, but w…

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