David Wales

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Christianity - Biographies

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Richard Raby - Pope Adrian IV; An Historical Sketch

Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100-1159, pope 1154-1159) was the only English pope. Written by a Catholic in 1849, this biography of the pope appeared twenty years after the English Parliament passed “The Roman Catholic Relief...

David Wales 2 hours 38 minutes

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Children's Fiction

430

Christmas Miscellany 2018

Sixteen Christmas stories or essays. (David Wales)

David Wales 6 hours 8 minutes

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Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee Being His Story Of The War (1861-1865)

War & Military

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Charles Todd Quintard - Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee Being His Story Of The War (1861-1865)

Charles Quintard (1824-1898) was an Episcopal priest who, in spite of his pro-Union stance, volunteered to be a chaplain in the Confederate army in the American Civil War. A sympathetic, warm, intellectual man loved...

David Wales 4 hours 46 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Eden Phillpotts - Human Boy Again

Published in 1908, this is a further collection of twelve humorous short stories about English school boys. The author wrote two other books in this series: The Human Boy (1900) and The Human Boy And The War (1916)....

David Wales 6 hours 15 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Eden Phillpotts - Human Boy

This collection of eleven short stories, both humorous and touching, about English school boys was published in 1900. The book was quite popular in its time. The author wrote two follow-up books: The Human Boy Again...

David Wales 4 hours 20 minutes

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History

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Etheria - Pilgrimage Of Etheria

This (probably) late fourth century common era (A.D.) narrative of a Christian pilgrimage is the earliest such text which survives to us. It is an important source of information about early Christian practices. This...

David Wales 2 hours 17 minutes

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San Francisco Before And After The Earthquake

Technology & Engineering

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William Henry Irwin - San Francisco Before And After The Earthquake

As all but Martians know (and who knows, perhaps even they), the city of San Francisco, California, was destroyed by massive earthquake and unquenchable fire in April, 1906. Will Irwin was a sometime San Franciscan...

David Wales 50 minutes

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Health & Fitness

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Stephen Smith - City That Was

This 1911 history of the public health revolution that transformed New York City in the nineteenth century is also about every city and town of the world and the sanitary challenges that each encountered. Stephen...

David Wales 3 hours 53 minutes

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Gulliver The Great And Other Dog Stories

Nature & Animal Fiction

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Walter Alden Dyer - Gulliver The Great And Other Dog Stories

This 1916 book is a collection of sixteen of the author's dog stories previously published in magazines. ( David Wales)

David Wales 5 hours 58 minutes

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Family Life

512

Walter Alden Dyer - Pierrot, Dog Of Belgium

This 1915 novella was published as the First World War raged. «Belgium lies bleeding. Across her level, lush meadows the harsh-shod hosts of war have marched. Beside her peaceful waters the sons of God have spilled...

David Wales 1 hour 50 minutes

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Night The Mountain Fell; The Story Of The Montana-Yellowstone Earthquake

Nature

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Edmund Christopherson - Night The Mountain Fell; The Story Of The Montana-Yellowstone Earthquake

A severe earthquake, centered in the vacation area of West Yellowstone, Montana, shook the ground and its inhabitants and visitors on August 17, 1959, at 11.37 pm. A mountainside fell, a lake formed, roads and houses...

David Wales 1 hour 55 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Edward H. Hurlbut - Lanagan Amateur Detective

This is a 1913 collection of ten short detective stories by a not well known writer. Jack Lanagan is a police reporter for a daily newspaper in San Francisco, who has the confidence of the chief of police and access...

David Wales 6 hours 29 minutes

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New

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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