David Wales

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Ghosts And Family Legends; A Volume For Christmas

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Catherine Crowe - Ghosts And Family Legends; A Volume For Christmas

Fifteen ghost stories to hear around the Yule log. «It happened that I spent the last winter in a large country mansion, in the north of England, where we had a succession of visitors, and all manner of amusements—…...

David Wales 6 hours 46 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043

Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the role of «people of color» in New Orleans and Louisiana history, the question of voting rights for Blacks...

TriciaG and 8 more 5 hours 56 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Single Author Collections

460

Ernest Bramah - Kai Lung's Golden Hours

Kai Lung’s Golden Hours is a frame story or frame novel, that is, the narrative provides a frame for different stories. Think One Thousand And One Nights or Canterbury Tales. Kai Lung is an ancient Chinese storyteller...

David Wales 9 hours 35 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

501

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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Nature & Animal Fiction

454

Katharine Berry Judson - Myths and Legends of Alaska (version 2)

The myths in this 1911 volume are authentic. The original collections were made by government ethnologists. Only the quaintest and purest of the myths have been selected. The leading myth of the North the Raven Myth,...

David Wales 2 hours 24 minutes

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Poetry

468

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,...

David Wales 1 hour 21 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Christopher Morley - Shandygaff

A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader. (Title page) SHANDYGAFF: a very refreshing drink, being a mixture of bitter...

David Wales 7 hours 46 minutes

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Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of The Universe: Introduction

*Non-fiction

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Alexander von Humboldt - Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of The Universe: Introduction

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of romantic philosophy. Many consider him to be the last of the great polymaths. After his...

David Wales 2 hours 40 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 042

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include biographies of astronomer Fiammetta Wilson, naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, mountaineer Jacques Balmat,...

David Wales and 11 more 7 hours 1 minute Short Nonfiction Collections

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Times' Red Cross Story Book By Famous Novelists Serving In His Majesty's Forces

Short Stories

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Times' Red Cross Story Book By Famous Novelists Serving In His Majesty's Forces

These eighteen stories were published in 1915, in the midst of World War I. «Published For The Times' Fund For The Sick And Wounded» — Summary by Book's title page and david wales

David Wales 9 hours 40 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Katherine MacLean - Contagion

Minos was such a lovely planet. Not a thing seemed wrong with it. Excepting the food, perhaps. And a disease that wasn't really. Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, October, 1950. Katherine Anne MacLean...

David Wales 1 hour 12 minutes

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Indians Of Carlsbad Caverns National Park

History

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Margaret Herschel - Indians Of Carlsbad Caverns National Park

A short review of the history and presence of Native Americans in the area of the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, USA. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 1 hour

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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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