David Wales

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Visits To The Dead In The Catacombs Of Rome

Essays & Short Works

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George Washington Greene - Visits To The Dead In The Catacombs Of Rome

This essay of a cultured observer, for many years United States consul in Rome, appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 10, issue 59, April, 1855, pp 577 — 600. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 1 hour 53 minutes

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Single Author Collections

478

Edward Everett Hale - Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories, some of which have been published before. I have added a little essay, written on the occasion of the first Christmas celebrated by the King of Italy in Rome. (Summary by...

David Wales 6 hours 48 minutes

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Youth and the Bright Medusa, and The Troll Garden

Westerns

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Willa Sibert Cather - Youth and the Bright Medusa, and The Troll Garden

Youth And The Bright Medusa comprises eight short stories published in 1920. Four of them (The Sculptor’s Funeral; A Death In The Desert; A Wagner Matinee; Paul’s Case) are re-worked from an earlier collection, The...

David Wales 10 hours 8 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

480

John Kendrick Bangs - Over The Plum Pudding

Great Caesar’s ghost and shades of A Christmas Carol! Stories – some ghostly, some Christmas, some humorous, some all three — twelve of them by a master story teller and humorist of the late nineteenth and early...

David Wales 4 hours 30 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

516

John Kendrick Bangs - Water Ghost and Others

Eight ghost stories by a master story teller and humorist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 4 hours 24 minutes

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Outwitting The Hun; My Escape From A German Prison Camp

War & Military

481

Pat O'Brien - Outwitting The Hun; My Escape From A German Prison Camp

A true war narrative, published in 1918 while WWI was still going on. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 5 hours 33 minutes

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Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy Of The Korosko

Action & Adventure Fiction

442

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy Of The Korosko

Also published under the title The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898). A group of European tourists are enjoying their trip to Egypt in the year 1895. They are sailing up the River Nile in a «a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed...

David Wales 5 hours 15 minutes

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Single Author Collections

501

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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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel

Essays & Short Works

442

John Donne - Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English theologian and writer John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a...

David Wales 9 hours 11 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

481

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 029

Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include architecture, education, philosophy, religion, health, humor, history, and literature. (Summary by Sue Anderson)

Craig Campbell and 17 more 5 hours 49 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Literary Fiction

557

Henry Fielding - Amelia (Vol. 1)

This is the first volume of a three volume novel. In this novel, Amelia marries William Booth against her mother's desires, and the two must move to London. Fielding explores the issues of married life such as...

Brooke Cunningham and 10 more 7 hours 12 minutes

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Short Stories

483

Alexander Jessup - Best American Humorous Short Stories

Eighteen short stories by famous and little known authors compassing the period 1839 — 1914. The editor's very extensive introduction is omitted from this Librivox audio book. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 11 hours 13 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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