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G. K. Chesterton - Appetite of Tyranny

“Unless we are all mad, there is at the back of the most bewildering business a story: and if we are all mad, there is no such thing as madness. If I set a house on fire, it is quite true that I may illuminate many...

Ray Clare 2 hours 7 minutes

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Bruce Barton - It's a Good Old World

In this collection of essays, Bruce Barton, considered to be among the most influential advertising men of the 20th century, uses history, religion and current events of the 1920s to teach common sense ideals....

Stephen Escalera 3 hours 20 minutes

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Lysander Spooner - Essay on the Trial by Jury

FOR more than six hundred years that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215 there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law, than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the right and duty of...

BethAnne 11 hours 28 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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G. K. Chesterton - George Bernard Shaw

Chesterton and Shaw were famous friends and enjoyed their arguments and discussions. Although rarely in agreement, they both maintained good-will towards and respect for each other. However, in his writing,...

Ray Clare 5 hours 46 minutes

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Emma Goldman - Anarchism and Other Essays

Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first...

Lee Elliott and 1 more 6 hours 57 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Sir Henry W. Lucy - Faces and Places

Faces and Places is a collection of articles on nineteenth century travel, events and personalities by the British journalist Henry Lucy, who wrote for the Daily News, a London newspaper. His open letter To...

Ruth Golding 6 hours 59 minutes

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G. K. Chesterton - Defendant

A collection of reprinted articles on a wide-range of subjects, all in the unique style of G. K. Chesterton. Using wit, paradox, and good humor he “defends” a series of seeming harmless things that need no defense,...

Ray Clare 3 hours 16 minutes

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 009

A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in these collections are independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass...

Philippa and 12 more 6 hours 11 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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G. K. Chesterton - Varied Types

Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he uses his wit and mastery of paradox to bring into focus a number of...

Ray Clare 4 hours 45 minutes

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G. K. Chesterton - Miscellany of Men

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was among the world's most prolific writers who incorporated relentless logic, wonderful humor, and a clear view of truth into an amazing tool for exposing the foolishness of the policies of...

Ray Clare 5 hours 58 minutes

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 008

A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass...

Perry Clayton and 12 more 3 hours 54 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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G. K. Chesterton - Alarms and Discursions

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy, and detective...

Ray Clare 5 hours 41 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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