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LibriVox recording of On Anything, by Hilaire Belloc. Read by Ray Clare.

"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 told, an old and crusty woman of great wealth, to whom I was describing what I intended to do with life (which in those days seemed to me of infinite duration), said to me, ( You are building castles in Spain.' I was too much in awe of this woman not on account of the wealth, but on account of the crust to go further into the matter, but it seemed to me a very foolish thing to say, for I had never been to Spain, and I had nothing wherewith to build a castle and indeed such a project had never passed through my head.” -- Hilaire Belloc

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Artist/Composer: Hilaire Belloc
Date: 2010-03-19
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; belloc

Creative Commons license: Public Domain
01 - On Building Castles in Spain	10:20
02 - On Clay	9:50
03 - On No Book	6:24
04 - On Irony	8:53
05 - On the Simplicity of Words	11:09
06 - On Secluded Places	11:20
07 - On People in Books	13:41
08 - On the Effect of Time	14:31
09 - On a Poet	14:00
10 - On a Phrophet	10:11
11 - On Believing	10:29
12 - On the Air of the Dordogne	9:23
13 - On the Sites of the Revolution	9:27
14 - On a Secret Letter	13:27
15 - On the Shadows	9:45
16 - On the Canvasser	11:12
17 - On the Abstracted Man	11:11
18 - On the Method of History	13:05
19 - On History in Travel	10:59
20 - On the Traveller	11:26
21 - On Milton	11:22
22 - On Hans Christian Anderson	8:34
23 - On the Christmas of 1808	7:48
24 - On Communications	12:24
25 - On Astarte	11:18
26 - On the Hungry Student	12:59
27 - On the Brigand of Radicofani	19:35
28 - On the Honest Man and the Devil	11:42
29 - On Compiegne	10:46
30 - On the Candour of Maturity	12:29
31 - On the Fog	13:23
32 - On the Spaniard	11:49
33 - On the Fortress	11:05
34 - On the Hunter	14:42
35 - On Our Inheritance	10:26
36 - On the New Road	11:52
37 - On Two Towns	12:44
38 - On the Judgment of Robespierre	12:08