David Wales

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Psychology

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Theophrastus - Characters Of Theophrastus

Theophrastus ( c. 371 – c. 287 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic School. He wrote on many topics: biology, geology, physics, metaphysics, psychology, ethics, logic – and...

David Wales 1 hour 30 minutes

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Gothic Fiction

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Henry James - Owen Wingrave

A young man of good family with a long distinguished military tradition indicates that he will not follow his ancestors' path into the army. Dire results ensue. Benjamin Britten in 1970 wrote an opera based on this...

David Wales 1 hour 29 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Mendelssohn And Certain Masterworks

In the compass of the present pamphlet it is impossible to give more than a cursory survey of Mendelssohn’s happy but extraordinarily crowded life. He was only slightly less prolific a composer than such masters as...

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Children's Fiction

472

Owen Wister - New Swiss Family Robinson

A parody of its famous predecessor, this short piece was written by Owen Wister for the Harvard Lampoon (Summary by David Wales)

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Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University

General Fiction

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Owen Wister - Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University

Owen Wister's wry humor enlivens this comedic story of three sophomores during exam week at Harvard. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 1 hour 27 minutes

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War & Military

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Rudyard Kipling - Fringes Of The Fleet

During the war (WWI), [Kipling] wrote a booklet The Fringes of the Fleet containing essays and poems on various nautical subjects of the war. Some of the poems were set to music by English composer Edward Elgar. —...

David Wales 1 hour 26 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Hector Berlioz; A Romantic Tragedy

How much more futile is it to attempt on the minuscule scale of the following tiny, if rambling, pamphlet to touch upon even a thousandth of those achievements and unremitting conflicts which entered into the texture...

David Wales 1 hour 26 minutes

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Study Of Army Camp Life During American Revolution

War & Military

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Mary Hazel Snuff - Study Of Army Camp Life During American Revolution

Housing, Food, Clothing, Health, Sanitation, Recreation, Religion, Duties, Discipline. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of arts in history in the Graduate School...

David Wales 1 hour 24 minutes

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War & Military

450

Richard Wayne Lykes - Campaign For Petersburg

In the American Civil War the Union victory in the ten-month campaign for the city of Petersburg, Virginia (June 1864-March 1865), led directly to the surrender of the Confederacy within two weeks. This 1970 National...

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Theodore Roosevelt; An Address Delivered Before The Congress Of The United States

Biography & Autobiography

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Henry Cabot Lodge - Theodore Roosevelt; An Address Delivered Before The Congress Of The United States

A biographical encomium delivered on the occasion of Roosevelt's death. Theodore «T.R.» Roosevelt, Jr. (1858 – 1919) was an American author, naturalist, explorer, historian, and politician who served as the 26th...

David Wales 1 hour 22 minutes

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Westerns

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Owen Wister - Journey in Search of Christmas

Cowboy Lin McLean rides into frontier Cheyenne, Wyoming, at Christmastime and learns a powerful meaning of Christmas. Author Owen Wister is well known for his western writings, famously the novel The Virginian....

David Wales 1 hour 21 minutes

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Poetry

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George Crabbe - Village and The Library

The Village is Crabbe’s corrective to the rosy-tinted view of English village and rural working class life. He was a stark realist, as a priest and surgeon having been privy to so much of actual, rather than ideal,...

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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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