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Ishmael

Read by David Wales


Walter Alden Dyer


In Gulliver The Great And Other Dog Stories

This 1916 book is a collection of sixteen of the author's dog stories previously published in magazines. ( David Wales)

02 - The First and Last, Parts III and IV

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John Galsworthy


In Five Tales

This 1918 book consists of five short stories or novelettes by Galsworthy. They are The First and Last (1914), A Stoic, The Apple Tree (1916…

Morrant's Half-Sov

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Eden Phillpotts


In The Human Boy

This collection of eleven short stories, both humorous and touching, about English school boys was published in 1900. The book was quite pop…

A Christmas Miscellany

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Various



A selection of eight short works, chapters, or poems about Christmas. - Summary by david wales

26 - Little Britain

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Washington Irving


In The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

Apart from "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - the pieces which made both Irving and The Sketch Book fa…

Sea Poems: An Idiosyncratic Selection

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Various



Seventeen poems about the sea or in which the sea plays an important role. - Summary by david wales

The Welsh Sea

Read by DomBombadil


James Elroy Flecker


In Forty-Two Poems

This is a collection of poems by James Elroy Flecker. - Summary by Carolin

William -- The Fourth

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Richmal Crompton



The world’s most confident, most chaos-creating eleven year old boy is at it again in these fourteen glorious and funny 1924 short stories. …

That Pup

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Ellis Parker Butler



A puppy, unannounced and unordered, arrives in a crate at Mr. Murchison's house. Humorous events follow. - Summary by david wales

25 - On Exhibition

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Rudyard Kipling


In 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…

on the march of the Highlanders into Lancashire

Read by Phil Benson


John Byrom


In Lancashire Dialogues

A scion of the Byroms of Byrom Hall in Lowton, Lancashire, John Byrom was born and lived in Manchester and Salford for much of his life. Edu…

A Christmas Miscellany 2020

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Various



Nine stories, chapters, or essays about Christmas or around Christmas. - Summary by David Wales

A Christmas Miscellany 2017

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Various



A selection of short works about Christmas. (Summary by david wales)

A Christmas Miscellany 2023

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Various



Eleven short works or book chapters about Christmas or around that time period. - Summary by David Wales

The Friend

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Cyrus Townsend Brady


In And Thus He Came

These short stories, perhaps we might call them modern parables, are not the usual fare of warm and fuzzy Christmas stories (pleasing as tho…

On the Brighton Road

Read by Steve C


Richard Middleton


In The Ghost Ship & Other Stories

Richard Middleton is one of the many authors who, despite great merit, have been almost entirely forgotten today. This English author was an…

David and Goliath

Read by Symmie


King James Version


In The Ontario Readers: Third Book

The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…

Welsh Rabbittern, The

Read by John Burnett


Kenyon Cox


In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 06

The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the sixth volume, 55 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors…

Celtic Literature, by William Sharp and Ernest Rhys, III - Welsh

Read by Gareth Rowlands


Ernest Rhys


In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 08

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Winnowed Wisdom

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Stephen Leacock



This 1926 volume comprises thirty-five essays by the masterful Canadian humorist. - Summary by david wales

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