David Wales

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 035

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include how to swim, Navajo silversmithing, the sun, begonias and ferns, Martin Luther, U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and...

Glenn O'Brien and 12 more 7 hours 28 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Owen Wister - Members of the Family

Members of the Family is a collection of eight short stories about people in the Wyoming Territory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Summary by David Wales)

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Westerns

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Max Brand - Long, Long Trail

A willful flirtatious girl; a morose family; a dark, mysterious, and (to some) alluring man; lots of horses, guns, honor, love, courage, and treachery in this 1921 pulp western. Max Brand was known for going well...

David Wales 7 hours 23 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Henry Fielding - Amelia (Vol. 1)

This is the first volume of a three volume novel. In this novel, Amelia marries William Booth against her mother's desires, and the two must move to London. Fielding explores the issues of married life such as...

Brooke Cunningham and 10 more 7 hours 12 minutes

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Westerns

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Bret Harte - Luck Of Roaring Camp And Other Sketches

Bret Harte (1836 – 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California… He moved to California in 1853, later working there in a number of capacities, including...

David Wales 7 hours 11 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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William Henry Shelton - Last Three Soldiers

What if the Confederacy had won the American Civil War? It’s July 1864 and three oh-so-young Union troopers are assigned to a mountaintop in Tennessee to be a link in a chain of flag signalers across a ridge of...

David Wales 7 hours 1 minute

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 042

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include biographies of astronomer Fiammetta Wilson, naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, mountaineer Jacques Balmat,...

David Wales and 11 more 7 hours 1 minute Short Nonfiction Collections

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House With The Mezzanine And Other Stories

Short Stories

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Anton Chekhov - House With The Mezzanine And Other Stories

Six short stories and a novella by the Russian master. (david wales)

David Wales 7 hours 1 minute

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 065

Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. A review of William Carlos Williams' «Kora in Hell» by Robert McAlmon is one of several selections devoted to literature and learning. Others are H. P. Lovecraft's...

Dale Grothmann and 10 more 7 hours Short Nonfiction Collections

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Single Author Collections

Rudyard Kipling - Abaft The Funnel

«Men in pajamas sitting abaft the funnel and swapping lies of the purple seas.» Thirty one early short stories by the master story teller Kipling. (Summary by David Wales and title page)

David Wales 6 hours 51 minutes

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History

Katharine Berry Judson - Early Days Of Old Oregon

Twenty-three stories of the history of early Oregon plus an appendix: A Brief Summary Of The History Of The Old Oregon Country From Original Sources. OLD OREGON was a mighty sweep of country, and a most romantic one....

David Wales 6 hours 49 minutes

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Edward Everett Hale - Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories, some of which have been published before. I have added a little essay, written on the occasion of the first Christmas celebrated by the King of Italy in Rome. (Summary by...

David Wales 6 hours 48 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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