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Christmas Miscellany 2017

A selection of short works about Christmas. (Summary by david wales)

David Wales 5 hours 5 minutes

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John Cowper Powys - Visions and Revisions

Powys presents a set of literary devotions of great figures in Literature who have obsessed him. He attempts not so much a reasoned critique or any attempt to categorise these figures but rather, as he describes in...

Keri Ford 6 hours 49 minutes

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Samuel Butler - Note-Books of Samuel Butler

Early in his life Samuel Butler began to carry a note-book and to write down in it anything he wanted to remember; it might be something he heard some one say, more commonly it was something he said himself. In one of...

Kristin Lewis and 8 more 15 hours 56 minutes

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Alice Meynell - Spirit of Place and Other Essays

Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League. She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing...

Larry Wilson and 6 more 2 hours 28 minutes

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Marian Storm - Minstrel Weather

A series of poetically written meditations on the seasons and other nature subjects. Or “ …Minstrel Weather, a series of open-air vignettes which circle the zodiac with the attentive eye of a naturalist and the...

David Wales 2 hours

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Art, Design & Architecture

474

Arts and Crafts Essays

A series of essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society with a preface by William Morris who writes «It is this conscious cultivation of art and the attempt to interest the public in it which the Arts...

realisticspeakers and 11 more 6 hours 41 minutes

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Alice Meynell - Children

Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing...

Jim Locke and 5 more 1 hour 56 minutes

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432

Max Beerbohm - Yet Again

This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such famous men as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, and Somerset Maugham. The essays vary considerably in...

Kirsten Wever 8 hours 4 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Lafcadio Hearn - Gleanings in Buddha Fields

Lafcadio Hearn was one of the first Westerners to live in Japan during the early Meiji era, and a prolific writer. Although chiefly known for his collections of Japanese ghost stories (in particular Kwaidan ), he...

Availle and 6 more 6 hours 25 minutes

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Max Beerbohm - And Even Now

This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such notables as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, and Somerset Maugham. Much of Beerbohm's work was humorous,...

Kirsten Wever 7 hours 55 minutes

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George William Curtis - From the Easy Chair Vol. 1

George William Curtis was a writer and public speaker. He was editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican party, and served Ulysses S. Grant; although he split from the party in the...

Matthew Squaire and 11 more 4 hours 19 minutes

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E. Walter Walters - Confessions of a Book-Lover

«I am of the company of book men who read simply for the love of it,» confesses E. Walter Walters, in this gently written tome. Walters documents his habit of «book fishing--» seeking and finding quality volumes in...

DrPGould 2 hours 4 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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