David Wales

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General Fiction

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Christmas Miscellany 2017

A selection of short works about Christmas. (Summary by david wales)

David Wales 5 hours 5 minutes

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Romance of California Life; Illustrated By Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic And Humorous

Action & Adventure Fiction

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John Habberton - Romance of California Life; Illustrated By Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic And Humorous

These 37 short stories were authored by John Habberton (1842–1921), an American writer. He spent nearly twenty years as the literary and drama critic for the New York Herald, but he is best known for his stories about...

David Wales 14 hours 55 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Alfred George Gardiner - Prophets, Priests, And Kings

These biographical essays of (mostly) British subjects were written in 1907-1908 for The Daily News newspaper and reflect their subjects as seen before the great cataclysm of World War I. Gardiner was a British...

David Wales 10 hours 52 minutes

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Madman: His Parables And Poems and The Forerunner: His Parables And Poems

Philosophy

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Kahlil Gibran - Madman: His Parables And Poems and The Forerunner: His Parables And Poems

Two short books by the Lebanese-American writer, poet, and mystic. Reflections on existence and life, purpose and meaning. His most famous work is The Prophet (1923). The Madman, Part 1: Introduction; God; My...

David Wales 1 hour 32 minutes

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War & Military

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E. Charles Vivian - British Army From Within

This 1914 book gives a picture of the British Army structure and life in the early hours of World War I. Summary by david wales

David Wales 3 hours 53 minutes

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War & Military

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J. N. Gregory - Fort Concho; Its Why And Wherefore

Fort Concho was a U.S. Army post in central Texas from 1867 to 1889. It figured considerably in the Indian Wars, notably against the Comanches. It mainly served to protect frontier settlers, stagecoaches, wagon...

David Wales 1 hour 31 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Marian Storm - Minstrel Weather

A series of poetically written meditations on the seasons and other nature subjects. Or “ …Minstrel Weather, a series of open-air vignettes which circle the zodiac with the attentive eye of a naturalist and the...

David Wales 2 hours

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Tea Drinking In 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette And Equipage

Family & Relationships

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Rodris Roth - Tea Drinking In 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette And Equipage

The title of this 1961 Smithsonian Institution bulletin says it all. “In 18th-century America, the pleasant practice of taking tea at home was an established social custom with a recognized code of manners and...

David Wales 1 hour 11 minutes

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Law

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Unknown - Tales Of The Royal Irish Constabulary

The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC, simply called the Irish Constabulary 1836–67) was the armed police force of the United Kingdom in Ireland from the early nineteenth century until 1922. About seventy-five percent of...

David Wales 7 hours 41 minutes

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War & Military

Leslie Buswell - With The American Ambulance Field Service In France; Personal Letters Of A Driver At The Front

This 1915 publication collects letters written by a driver for the American ambulance service. The incidents they relate occurred before the entrance of the United States into World War I as a combatant. “These...

David Wales 2 hours 33 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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William A Alcott - Three Days On The Ohio River

This 1854 narration of a trip upon the Ohio River in a steamboat from Cincinnati to Pittsburg gives a picture of travel in a different time and almost a different United States. The author was well-known in his time...

David Wales 48 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

Ernest Bramah - Mirror Of Kong Ho

This 1905 tongue-in-cheek book is ostensibly the letters of a dutiful son to his Chinese father describing his encounter with and experience of Western civilization in late nineteenth century London. The author is...

David Wales 5 hours 57 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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