David Wales

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Kaffir, Kangaroo, Klondike; Tales Of The Gold Fields

Short Stories

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Thaddeus William Henry Leavitt - Kaffir, Kangaroo, Klondike; Tales Of The Gold Fields

Seven short stories. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 2 hours 44 minutes

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Westerns

429

Max Brand - Cross Brand

Jack Bristol shot the sheriff and stole his horse. He rode off, not into the sunset, but into the mountains. The mountain man held him captive for months and then released him. Why? And why did the girl scream with...

David Wales 3 hours 56 minutes

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Children's Fiction

435

Richard Mace Elam - Young Readers Science Fiction Stories

This 1957 book contains thirteen pre-space-exploration stories for young readers. Some of the details show their dated composition (we now know the earth looks blue not green from space) but the sense of adventure...

David Wales 2 hours 39 minutes

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Never: A Handbook For The Uninitiated And Inexperienced Aspirants To Refined Society's Giddy Heights And Glittering Attainments

Humor

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Nathan Dane Urner - Never: A Handbook For The Uninitiated And Inexperienced Aspirants To Refined Society's Giddy Heights And Glittering Attainments

An 1883 tongue-in-cheek spoof of manners and mannerisms of “society”. ‘the “Open Sesame” to that jealously-guarded realm,—good society,—in which you aspire to circulate freely and shine with becoming luster…. And I,...

David Wales 1 hour 8 minutes

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Westerns

446

Max Brand - Sheriff Larrabee's Prisoner

The stranger rode up in the pouring rain to the lonely ranch house. Before dawn he was riding quickly away. Who had killed old Mr. Benton? The stranger, or Gus, or Mrs. Zellar? And why was Jack Montagne’s behavior so...

David Wales 2 hours 8 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 047

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include philosophy and thought — Plato, Aristotle, Leonhard Euler, Henri Amiel, and the French Rights of Man; adventure...

Availle and 6 more 4 hours 59 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Family Life

419

Christmas Miscellany

A selection of eight short works, chapters, or poems about Christmas. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 2 hours 3 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

448

André Gide - Oscar Wilde: A Study

This is a 1905 memoir of one great litterateur’s latter days written by another great litterateur. This recording omits the numerous footnotes and two letters in French untranslated by the translator. -Summary by...

David Wales 1 hour 6 minutes

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Theodore Winthrop: A Civil War Narrative Aborted by Death

War & Military

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Theodore Winthrop - Theodore Winthrop: A Civil War Narrative Aborted by Death

Theodore Winthrop (1828 – 1861) was a charismatic writer, lawyer, and world traveler. In the New York Seventh Regiment, he was one of the first Union officers killed in the American Civil War. He wrote two articles...

David Wales 2 hours 45 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

414

Francis Johnson - Famous Assassinations Of History

It has been the object of the writer to make each of these “famous assassinations” the central scene of a picture in which the political, religious, or national features of the epoch in which the assassination...

David Wales 11 hours 9 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Franz Blei - Recollections of Oscar Wilde

This 1906 collection of memories of Oscar Wilde is by friends. Wilde said that his genius was his life; only his talent was in his works. (Summary by david wales)

David Wales 1 hour 17 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 046

Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include meteor showers, smallpox inoculation, telegraphy, fear of death, church bell change-ringing, painting as a...

Garth Burton and 8 more 6 hours 47 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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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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