David Wales

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Myths And Legends Of British North America

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths And Legends Of British North America

[The Native American] story tellers of the camp related, with dramatic gestures, stories of the Days of the Grandfathers, in the beginning of the Newness of Things. Nothing was too large or too small to come within...

David Wales 3 hours 43 minutes

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Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West

Biography & Autobiography

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Cyrus Townsend Brady - Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West

Brady was a journalist, historian, adventure writer, and Episcopal priest. As a priest he spent some time on the American frontier as a missionary. “…the experiences are personal and actually occurred as they are set...

David Wales 3 hours 43 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

466

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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Biographical Notice Of Nicolo Paganini With An Analysis Of His Compositions And A Sketch Of The History Of The Violin

Biography & Autobiography

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Francois-Joseph Fetis - Biographical Notice Of Nicolo Paganini With An Analysis Of His Compositions And A Sketch Of The History Of The Violin

Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (1782 – 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin...

David Wales 3 hours 39 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Robert Hugh Benson - Light Invisible

Fifteen short ghost stories by the Anglican then Roman Catholic priest, Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914). The form of the book is of an old English Roman Catholic priest telling stories to his young friend. Benson wrote...

David Wales 3 hours 39 minutes

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Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes

It is a loss to American literature that so much of the legendary history of these Indian tribes has gone, beyond hope of recovery. Exquisite in color, poetical in feeling, these legends of sun, moon, and stars, of...

David Wales 3 hours 35 minutes

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Family Life

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Fireside Christmas Short Stories

A collection of Christmas-themed short stories, intended to warm the heart and share with the family. Each story or poem in this collection is unique: some make us pause to consider the meaning of Christmas, others...

Lynne T and 11 more 3 hours 35 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Col. William F. Cody - Adventures of Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill was arguably, the most recognized man in the world when he penned this book. The first four stories are of some of his adventures and the remaining 6 are autobiographical. All of them have been proved to...

Phil Chenevert and 8 more 3 hours 33 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Logan Pearsall Smith - Trivia (1917) And More Trivia (1921)

Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) was an American-born British essayist who was known for his epigrams and aphorisms, often humorous. This recording is of two of his collections of these bon mots. For example: “These...

David Wales 3 hours 31 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Hawker - Cecilia de Noël

Cecilia de Noël is an original and cleverly told ghost story, published in 1891. The story is told, Rashomon-like, from six different viewpoints. — Summary by Wikipedia and David Wales

David Wales 3 hours 29 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Oliver Onions - Compleat Bachelor

George Oliver Onions (1873 – 1961) was a British writer of story collections and over 40 novels…. Onions wrote detective fiction, social comedy, historical fiction and romance novels. This social comedy of late...

David Wales 3 hours 28 minutes

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Old Testament Legends Being Stories Out Of Some Of The Less-Known Apocryphal Books Of The Old Testament

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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M. R. James - Old Testament Legends Being Stories Out Of Some Of The Less-Known Apocryphal Books Of The Old Testament

M R James was a well regarded English scholar who studied the medieval period (he also wrote great ghost stories!). Apocryphal books are ancient literatures about biblical events and characters but these books are not...

David Wales 3 hours 25 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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