David Wales

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That House I Bought; A Little Leaf From Life

Humorous Fiction

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Henry Edward Warner - That House I Bought; A Little Leaf From Life

This is a whimsical, entertaining, tongue in cheek narrative of the author’s purchase of a house, circa 1911. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 1 hour 41 minutes

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Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men

Humorous Fiction

428

Max Beerbohm - Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men

Sir Henry Maximilian «Max» Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men is a short story with moral implications. Beerbohm's tale is a lighter, more...

David Wales 1 hour 11 minutes

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Myths And Legends Of The Pacific Northwest Especially Of Washington And Oregon

Culture & Heritage Fiction

434

Katharine Berry Judson - Myths And Legends Of The Pacific Northwest Especially Of Washington And Oregon

The basis on which these myths were selected necessarily excluded those which showed traces of the white man's religion or of the red man's coarseness. Relatively speaking, only a few myths could be selected. These...

David Wales 2 hours 24 minutes

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Shepherd's Life; Impressions Of The South Wiltshire Downs

Travel & Geography

436

William Henry Hudson - Shepherd's Life; Impressions Of The South Wiltshire Downs

Hudson wrote this classic work in 1910; it is admiringly mentioned by many other writers. It focuses on the memories of a head shepherd, Caleb Bawcombe, so it is concerned with the period of mid to late nineteenth...

David Wales 8 hours 43 minutes

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Tales Of King Arthur And The Round Table

Children's Fiction

526

Andrew Lang - Tales Of King Arthur And The Round Table

The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history of the country opens… It is believed that King Arthur lived in the sixth...

David Wales 4 hours 18 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Schubert And His Works

This is a short introduction to Franz Schubert’s life and works. “…to give the casual radio listener a slight idea of Schubert’s inundating fecundity and inspiration. Like Bach, like Haydn, like Mozart, Schubert’s...

David Wales 1 hour 30 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

433

Frank Norris - Third Circle

Sixteen short stories by the American novelist Benjamin Frank Norris Jr (1870-1902) who wrote predominantly in the naturalist genre. He lived and worked in San Francisco. His writing has been compared to Emile Zola,...

David Wales 5 hours 34 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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J. Walker McSpadden - Stories From Wagner

Eleven stories of eleven operas by Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold. Die Walküre. Siegfried. Götterdämmerung. Parsifal. Lohengrin. Tannhäuser. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Rienzi. Die Fliegende Holländer....

David Wales 6 hours 40 minutes

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Gossip In The First Decade Of Victoria's Reign

Modern (19th C)

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John Ashton - Gossip In The First Decade Of Victoria's Reign

«I have written this Gossip not only for the edification of those to whom a portion, more or less, may be news, but for those who, like myself, have lived through the whole of Queen Victoria's reign, to whom the...

David Wales 10 hours 59 minutes

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History

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Elizabeth W. Grierson - Tales of English Minsters: Hereford

This short book was originally written for children, though adults will also find it worthwhile. It tells interesting history of Hereford in western England, its cathedral, and its people. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 57 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

524

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 038

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include bedside books, South African cookery, Bryce canyon, Wilhelm Stekel's psychology, the Theologia Germanica,...

Newgatenovelist and 8 more 4 hours 21 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Naval Occasions And Some Traits Of The Sailor-Man

War & Military Fiction

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Bartimeus - Naval Occasions And Some Traits Of The Sailor-Man

Twenty-six stories of pre-World War I British naval life in war and peace. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 6 hours 9 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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