David Wales

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Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From His Memoirs

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William Tecumseh Sherman - Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From His Memoirs

This librivox recording comprises part of chapter 22 and all of chapter 23 (The March To The Sea – From Atlanta To Savannah – November And December 1864) of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s...

David Wales 3 hours 24 minutes

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Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest

Culture & Heritage Fiction

498

Katharine Berry Judson - Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest

"...The preparation of a volume of the quainter, purer myths, suitable for general reading, authentic, and with illustrations of the country portrayed, but with no pretensions to being a purely scientific piece...

David Wales 3 hours 23 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

464

James Lane Allen - Sister Dolorosa

A Carmelite convent in Kentucky in the nineteenth century. A beautiful immature nun. A handsome immature visitor. A chance meeting. Whither? One might want to compare this story (1890) with an earlier one with a...

David Wales 3 hours 22 minutes

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Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains (version 2)

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains (version 2)

Here, amidst the vast sweep of the plains which stretch away to the horizon on every side, boundless, limitless, endless, lived the plains Indians. Standing in the midst of this vast green plain on a soft May morning,...

David Wales 3 hours 20 minutes

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Gothic Fiction

462

Clemence Housman - Werewolf -- Five Pieces

Five stories and essays about werewolves. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 3 hours 14 minutes

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Single Author Collections

462

Mary Elizabeth Hawker - Hotel D'Angleterre And Other Stories

Five short stories by Lanoe Falconer which is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 — 1908). Her works, though few, were well received. Never married, her health was precarious, preventing...

David Wales 3 hours 12 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Marcus Tullius Cicero - Treatises On Friendship And Old Age

Friendship. Old Age. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC — 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer, and philosopher. He is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists. One commentator has written, “The...

David Wales 3 hours 11 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 022

Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 022: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

David Wales and 9 more 3 hours 11 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

508

M. R. James - Thin Ghost And Others

Five ghost stories, published in 1920, by the early twentieth century master of ghostery. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 3 hours 8 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

508

William Thomas Linskill - St Andrews Ghost Stories

Seventeen ghost stories (fourth edition published 1921) centered around the ruined medieval cathedral of Saint Andrew in the Scots city of that name. The author was famous in his time for his interest in ghostly...

David Wales 3 hours 6 minutes

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War & Military

484

Alec John Dawson - Somme Battle Stories

Stories of World War I warfare, published in 1916 in the midst of the war. (That's why names of persons and units are literally «blanked» out.) Alec John Dawson (1872 — 1951), generally known as A. J. Dawson...

David Wales 3 hours 3 minutes

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American Far West: Seven Mid-Nineteenth Century Views From Abroad

Travel & Geography

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American Far West: Seven Mid-Nineteenth Century Views From Abroad

Charles Dickens started and edited a magazine called All The Year Round, a weekly collection of articles on a wide variety of topics. An anonymous correspondent in 1868-69 sent in these seven articles about life in...

David Wales 3 hours 1 minute

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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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