David Wales

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 061

LibriVox readers bring you 20 short works of fiction in the public domain. This collection includes stories by a variety of authors, including Anton Chekhov, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rebecca West, Lucy...

Jessie Yun and 12 more 8 hours 47 minutes Short Story Collections

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Yellowstone National Park: Six Early Pieces

Exploration

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Yellowstone National Park: Six Early Pieces

Lost in the wilderness of The Yellowstone for over a month, nearly dying of starvation and wild animal attack, despairing of ever finding his way out. Here are six relatively unknown early pieces about the U.S.A.’s...

David Wales 5 hours 15 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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Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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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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History

Katharine Berry Judson - Early Days Of Old Oregon

Twenty-three stories of the history of early Oregon plus an appendix: A Brief Summary Of The History Of The Old Oregon Country From Original Sources. OLD OREGON was a mighty sweep of country, and a most romantic one....

David Wales 6 hours 49 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 162

This is a collection of 28 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2016.

Peter Thomlinson and 11 more 47 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Single Author Collections

Saki - Chronicles of Clovis

This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from “Reginald” and “Reginald in Russia”. Although some of the stories have characters that do not appear elsewhere in the collection, many of them...

Anna Simon and 14 more 6 hours 9 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Oliver Onions - Compleat Bachelor

George Oliver Onions (1873 – 1961) was a British writer of story collections and over 40 novels…. Onions wrote detective fiction, social comedy, historical fiction and romance novels. This social comedy of late...

David Wales 3 hours 28 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Gaylord Dubois - Barry Blake Of The Flying Fortress

Gaylord DuBois wrote juvenile literature for decades. This is a boys' adventure story about serving in the American World War II flying corps. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 5 hours 15 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Hawker - Mademoiselle Ixe

This is a story by the English writer Mary Elizabeth Hawker (1848-1908) entitled Mademoiselle Ixe, by[pseudonym] Lanoe Falconer. The manuscript had been previously rejected by many publishers. The heroine is a...

David Wales 2 hours 48 minutes

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Anthologies

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Sea Poems: An Idiosyncratic Selection

Seventeen poems about the sea or in which the sea plays an important role. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 1 hour 3 minutes

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History

California History -- Two Pieces

Alfred Louis Kroeber (1876-1960) was an American cultural anthropologist who founded the anthropology department at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as directing that campus’ Museum Of Anthropology from...

David Wales 1 hour 38 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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