David Wales

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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

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Hugh Walpole - Jeremy

With affectionate humor, Mr. Walpole tells the story of Jeremy and his two sisters, Helen and Mary Cole, who grow up in Polchester, a quiet English Cathedral town. There is the Jampot, who is the nurse; Hamlet, the...

David Wales 9 hours 3 minutes

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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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Biography & Autobiography

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Benjamin F. Hasson - Escape From The Confederacy

Benjamin F Hasson was a Union officer in the Civil War of the United States. After being captured by the Confederacy, he escaped from a prison train taking prisoners to the infamous Andersonville prison. The short...

David Wales 1 hour 34 minutes

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Christmas Stories From 'Household Words' And 'All The Year Round'

Literary Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Christmas Stories From 'Household Words' And 'All The Year Round'

Twenty stories originally published in the Christmas editions of the magazines “Household Words” and “All The Year Round”. Some of the stories have little holiday sentiment and exhibit much of the indignation Dickens...

David Wales 26 hours 29 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Hugh Walpole - Cathedral

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (1884 – 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among those who encouraged him were the...

David Wales 15 hours

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

Children's Short Works, Vol. 022

Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 022: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

David Wales and 9 more 3 hours 11 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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*Non-fiction

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Hugh Walpole - Joseph Conrad

This is a literary biography of Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) who is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole. Though he did...

David Wales 2 hours 17 minutes

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War & Military

William Tecumseh Sherman - Sherman’s Military Lessons Of The American Civil War, From His Memoirs

This librivox recording comprises chapter 25 (Conclusion – Military Lessons Of The War) of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs, published in 1875. Sherman was one of the premier generals fighting for...

David Wales 1 hour 11 minutes

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Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs

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William Tecumseh Sherman - Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs

This librivox recording comprises three chapters from American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. The chapters deal with a posting to California in his pre-Civil War military career in the years...

David Wales 4 hours 7 minutes

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Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From His Memoirs

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William Tecumseh Sherman - Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From His Memoirs

This librivox recording comprises part of chapter 22 and all of chapter 23 (The March To The Sea – From Atlanta To Savannah – November And December 1864) of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s...

David Wales 3 hours 24 minutes

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Music

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart’s earthly career was so poignantly short yet so filled with incalculable achievement that the author of this booklet finds himself confronted with an impossible task. He has, consequently, preferred to outline...

David Wales 2 hours 3 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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