Ray Clare

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Religion

549

G. K. Chesterton - New Jerusalem

The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of anyone involved in the production of this book, and are not the views of LibriVox. Dale Ahlquist calls the book a «philosophical travelogue» of Chesterton's...

Ray Clare 10 hours 8 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

473

G. K. Chesterton - What I Saw in America

“Let me begin my American impressions with two impressions I had before I went to America. One was an incident and the other an idea; and when taken together they illustrate the attitude I mean. The first principle...

Ray Clare 9 hours 55 minutes

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Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

Essays & Short Works

542

G. K. Chesterton - Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

“These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries of the classics which are one of the real improvements of recent times. Thus...

Ray Clare 8 hours 27 minutes

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History

513

Hilaire Belloc - Europe and the Faith

The Catholic brings to history (when I say «history» in these pages I mean the history of Christendom) self-knowledge. As a man in the confessional accuses himself of what he knows to be true and what other people...

Ray Clare 8 hours 11 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

581

G. K. Chesterton - Charles Dickens

G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens' works expressing his opinion in his own inimitable style. (Summary by Karen Merline)

Stuart Bell and 8 more 7 hours 30 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

445

Hilaire Belloc - First and Last

“When a man weighs anchor in a little ship or a large one he does a jolly thing! He cuts himself off and he starts for freedom and for the chance of things. He pulls the jib a-weather, he leans to her slowly pulling...

Ray Clare 7 hours 27 minutes

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Essays

490

Hilaire Belloc - On Anything

Long before I knew that the speech of men was misused by them and that they lied in the hearing of the gods perpetually, in those early days through which all men have passed, during which one believes what one is...

Ray Clare 7 hours 18 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

653

G. K. Chesterton - Heretics

The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere «rollicking journalist,» he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every...

Ray Clare 7 hours 15 minutes

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*Non-fiction

533

Hilaire Belloc - French Revolution

“It is, for that matter, self-evident that if one community decides in one fashion, another, also sovereign, in the opposite fashion, both cannot be right. Reasoning men have also protested, and justly, against the...

Ray Clare 6 hours 59 minutes

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Middle Ages/Middle History

548

G. K. Chesterton - Short History of England

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific writer on many topics. His views of history were always from the standpoint of men and their interactions, and it may fairly be said he saw all of history as a battle between...

Ray Clare 6 hours 50 minutes

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Short non-fiction

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G. K. Chesterton - All Things Considered

Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of this day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. These reprinted magazine articles are filled with his good natured wit, his...

Ray Clare 6 hours 39 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

551

Hilaire Belloc - On Something

“Now that story is a symbol, and tells the truth. We see some one thing in this world, and suddenly it becomes particular and sacramental; a woman and a child, a man at evening, a troop of soldiers; we hear notes of...

Ray Clare 6 hours 38 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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