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Shepherd's Life; Impressions Of The South Wiltshire Downs

Travel & Geography

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William Henry Hudson - Shepherd's Life; Impressions Of The South Wiltshire Downs

Hudson wrote this classic work in 1910; it is admiringly mentioned by many other writers. It focuses on the memories of a head shepherd, Caleb Bawcombe, so it is concerned with the period of mid to late nineteenth...

David Wales 8 hours 43 minutes

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Single author

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George Crabbe - Borough

English village life and villagers in the east of England in the late 1700’s and early 1800s—is the subject of The Borough. George Crabbe was an English poet, surgeon, and clergyman. He is best known for his early use...

David Wales 8 hours 34 minutes

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Crimson Gardenia And Other Tales Of Adventure

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Rex Beach - Crimson Gardenia And Other Tales Of Adventure

Published in 1916, this book collects eleven stories originally published in several different magazines. Beach’s adventure stories were immensely popular throughout the early 1900s. — Summary by David Wales

David Wales 8 hours 34 minutes

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Single Author Collections

503

Edward Everett Hale - Man Without A Country And Other Tales

Edward Everett Hale (1822 – 1909) was an American author, historian and Unitarian clergyman. Hale first came to notice as a writer in 1859, when he contributed the short story «My Double and How He Undid Me» to the...

David Wales 8 hours 33 minutes

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Westerns

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Owen Wister - Lin McLean

Lin McLean is an unaffected, attractive young cowboy in the Wyoming territory before statehood. This book is various stories in his life. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 8 hours 33 minutes

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Andersonville Diary, Escape And List Of The Dead

*Non-fiction

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John L. Ransom - Andersonville Diary, Escape And List Of The Dead

John L. Ransom was the quartermaster of Company A, 9th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry during the American Civil War and a Union prisoner in the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. This is his diary...

David Wales 8 hours 32 minutes

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Captain William Kidd And Others Of The Buccaneers

History

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John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Captain William Kidd And Others Of The Buccaneers

Pirate stories galore! Pirate life was not always what it seemed from the outside. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 8 hours 30 minutes

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Lectures On Painting Delivered To The Students Of The Royal Academy

Art, Design & Architecture

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Edward Armitage - Lectures On Painting Delivered To The Students Of The Royal Academy

This 1883 book contains chapters on ancient costumes, Byzantine and Romanesque art, David and his school, modern schools of Europe, drawing, color, decorative painting, finish, choice of subject, composition of...

David Wales 8 hours 29 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

425

Algernon Blackwood - Day And Night Stories

Fifteen short stories by Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (1869 – 1951), an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist...

David Wales 8 hours 25 minutes

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Life's Little Ironies; A Set Of Tales With Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled A Few Crusted Characters

Short Stories

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Thomas Hardy - Life's Little Ironies; A Set Of Tales With Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled A Few Crusted Characters

Eighteen short stories by a master story teller. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 8 hours 23 minutes

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War & Military Fiction

420

Stephen Crane - Wounds In The Rain; War Stories

Eleven stories of war by the author of The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane was an American author. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. Crane's writing is...

David Wales 8 hours 20 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Charles Francis Saunders - Under The Sky In California

This is a 1913 travelogue by a then-well-known botanist who wrote many books about the American Southwest and California in particular. This popular book went into three printings. “…the main concern of the author has...

David Wales 8 hours 17 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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