David Wales

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Action & Adventure Fiction

442

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

466

William Henry Hudson - Idle Hours In A Library

“[these essays on Shakespeare, Pepys, Restoration novels, and bohemianism]—the results of many hours of quiet but rather aimless browsing among books, and not of special investigations, undertaken with a view to...

David Wales 5 hours 24 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

546

T. W. H. Crosland - Egregious English

This 1903 book is a tongue-in-cheek send-up of English people and subjects. Within the humor (or humour), the listener may be surprised by some diamond-hard observations. The listener is also alerted to some attitudes...

David Wales 3 hours 45 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

514

Sir Charles G. D. Roberts - Around The Campfire

Action and adventure short stories of men and animals in the wild. — Summary by David Wales

David Wales 8 hours 17 minutes

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Jim The Story Of A Backwoods Police Dog (And Other Stories)

Nature & Animal Fiction

492

Sir Charles G. D. Roberts - Jim The Story Of A Backwoods Police Dog (And Other Stories)

Deputy Sheriff Tug Blackstock wanted a dog to help with his work. As for Jim, at first glance he might almost have been taken for a slim, young black bear rather than a dog. They were a pair, indeed, to strike the...

David Wales 4 hours 13 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

498

Edwin Carlile Litsey - Race Of The Swift

This 1905 collection is of the author’s short animal stories, some previously published in magazines. — Summary by David Wales

David Wales 2 hours 6 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

483

William Thomas Linskill - St Andrews Ghost Stories

Seventeen ghost stories (fourth edition published 1921) centered around the ruined medieval cathedral of Saint Andrew in the Scots city of that name. The author was famous in his time for his interest in ghostly...

David Wales 3 hours 6 minutes

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Crimson Gardenia And Other Tales Of Adventure

Action & Adventure Fiction

463

Rex Beach - Crimson Gardenia And Other Tales Of Adventure

Published in 1916, this book collects eleven stories originally published in several different magazines. Beach’s adventure stories were immensely popular throughout the early 1900s. — Summary by David Wales

David Wales 8 hours 34 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

408

John Cecil Clay - Cupid's Cyclopedia

This 1910 short work is by the English-born American humorist, satirist, and illustrator Oliver Herford, aided by another caricaturist and illustrator, John Cecil Clay. Herford’s books were usually short and quite...

David Wales 1 hour 5 minutes

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War & Military

488

Charles Knowles Bolton - Private Soldier Under Washington

Much was been written about the American Revolution, but our knowledge of the private solders of the patriot army is confined chiefly to Washington’s description of their sufferings at Valley Forge. This 1902 book by...

David Wales 4 hours 45 minutes

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Study Of Army Camp Life During American Revolution

War & Military

422

Mary Hazel Snuff - Study Of Army Camp Life During American Revolution

Housing, Food, Clothing, Health, Sanitation, Recreation, Religion, Duties, Discipline. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of arts in history in the Graduate School...

David Wales 1 hour 24 minutes

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Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia

Art, Design & Architecture

506

Giovanni Battista Belzoni - Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia

Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778 – 1823) was an Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He is known for his removal to England of the seven ton bust of Ramesses II, the clearing of sand from...

David Wales 14 hours 58 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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