David Wales

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Paul Leicester Ford - Great K. & A. Train-Robbery

In this short novel the narrator is a superintendent on the K. & A. railroad, sometime in the late nineteenth century. The train is robbed somewhere in the Arizona desert. Various adventures involve this young...

David Wales 3 hours 43 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

871

Owen Wister - Red Men And White

These eight stories are made from our Western Frontier as it was in a past as near as yesterday and almost as by-gone as the Revolution; so swiftly do we proceed. They belong to each other in a kinship of life and...

David Wales 9 hours 37 minutes

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In the Midst of Life; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Ambrose Bierce - In the Midst of Life; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

These stories detail the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. This is the 1909 edition. The 1909 edition omits six stories from the original 1891 edition; these six stories are added to this...

David Wales 11 hours 11 minutes

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Children's Fiction

916

Richard Harding Davis - Boy Scout And Other Stories For Boys

RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, as a friend and fellow author has written of him, was “youth incarnate,” and there is probably nothing that he wrote of which a boy would not some day come to feel the appeal. But there are...

David Wales 4 hours 57 minutes

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General Fiction

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Owen Wister - Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories

This is the fifth published book of Owen Wister, author of the archetypical Western novel, The Virginian. Published in 1900, it comprises eight Western short stories. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 7 hours 51 minutes

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Political Science

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Owen Wister - Pentecost of Calamity

Nonfiction. Appalled by the savagery of World War I, Owen Wister in 1915 published an attempt to move the United States out of neutrality into joining the Allies against Germany. His aim was the quicker defeat of that...

David Wales 1 hour 38 minutes

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Christian Fiction

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George MacDonald - Thomas Wingfold, Curate

Republished in modern times as «The Curate's Awakening». A young man (Thomas Wingfold) «enters the church» through no real faith and only for want of something to do. After an encounter with a brash young atheist, he...

John Schuurman and 17 more 18 hours 48 minutes

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Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University

General Fiction

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Owen Wister - Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University

Owen Wister's wry humor enlivens this comedic story of three sophomores during exam week at Harvard. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 1 hour 27 minutes

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Padre Ignacio, Or The Song Of Temptation

Historical Fiction

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Owen Wister - Padre Ignacio, Or The Song Of Temptation

Padre Ignacio has been the pastor of California mission Santa Ysabel del Mar for twenty years. In 1855 a stranger rides into the mission bringing news and a spiritual crisis. It's really more of a novella than a...

David Wales 1 hour 12 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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May Gillington Byron - Days with the Great Composers

An imagined day in the life of each composer gives the anonymous author scope to describe each one's work and life, sketchily, of course, but interestingly. (Summary by David Wales) Note: This is a compilation...

David Wales 7 hours 33 minutes

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General Fiction

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Short Story Collection Vol. 051

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 051: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Lars Rolander and 11 more 9 hours 52 minutes Short Story Collections

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Westerns

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Owen Wister - Journey in Search of Christmas

Cowboy Lin McLean rides into frontier Cheyenne, Wyoming, at Christmastime and learns a powerful meaning of Christmas. Author Owen Wister is well known for his western writings, famously the novel The Virginian....

David Wales 1 hour 21 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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