David Wales
Five Tales
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John Galsworthy
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…
The Flint Heart
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Eden Phillpotts
The flint heart is a stone of heart shape, forged in prehistoric times, that changes whoever owns it into a wicked person. The story of the …
Just William
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Richmal Crompton
William is a mischievous eleven year old who is puzzled by the adult world, which is no less puzzled by him. The humor is gentle and pleasin…
A Journey in Search of Christmas
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Owen Wister
Cowboy Lin McLean rides into frontier Cheyenne, Wyoming, at Christmastime and learns a powerful meaning of Christmas. Author Owen Wister is …
Days with the Great Composers
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May Gillington Byron
An imagined day in the life of each composer gives the anonymous author scope to describe each one's work and life, sketchily, of course, bu…
Padre Ignacio, Or The Song Of Temptation
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Owen Wister
Padre Ignacio has been the pastor of California mission Santa Ysabel del Mar for twenty years. In 1855 a stranger rides into the mission bri…
Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University
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Owen Wister
Owen Wister's wry humor enlivens this comedic story of three sophomores during exam week at Harvard. (Summary by David Wales)
The Pentecost of Calamity
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Owen Wister
Nonfiction. Appalled by the savagery of World War I, Owen Wister in 1915 published an attempt to move the United States out of neutrality in…
The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories
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Owen Wister
This is the fifth published book of Owen Wister, author of the archetypical Western novel, The Virginian. Published in 1900, it comprises ei…
The Boy Scout And Other Stories For Boys
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Richard Harding Davis
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, as a friend and fellow author has written of him, was “youth incarnate,” and there is probably nothing that he wrote …
In the Midst of Life; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
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Ambrose Bierce
These stories detail the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. This is the 1909 edition. The 1909 edition omits six…
Red Men And White
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Owen Wister
These eight stories are made from our Western Frontier as it was in a past as near as yesterday and almost as by-gone as the Revolution; so …
The Great K. & A. Train-Robbery
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Paul Leicester Ford
In this short novel the narrator is a superintendent on the K. & A. railroad, sometime in the late nineteenth century. The train is robb…
The Dragon Of Wantley (version 2)
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Owen Wister
A novel, The Dragon of Wantley, was written by Owen Wister (best known as the author of The Virginian) in 1892. Published by Lipincott Press…
A Little Book of Christmas
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John Kendrick Bangs
Summary: Four short Christmas stories, a bit sentimental, but still affecting and worthwhile. Plus Four Christmas verses. (Summary by David …
The Luck Of Roaring Camp And Other Sketches
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Bret Harte
Bret Harte (1836 – 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.... He moved to …
The New Swiss Family Robinson
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Owen Wister
A parody of its famous predecessor, this short piece was written by Owen Wister for the Harvard Lampoon (Summary by David Wales)
Lin McLean
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Owen Wister
Lin McLean is an unaffected, attractive young cowboy in the Wyoming territory before statehood. This book is various stories in his life. (S…
Ulysses S. Grant
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Owen Wister
Ulysses S. Grant was the great hero (for the North) in the Civil War and the 18th President of the United States. This short biography is on…
Phillips Brooks
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Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe
Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893) was one of the finest and most famous clergyman in the nineteenth century; he was acknowledged as a masterful …
Members of the Family
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Owen Wister
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…
The Alhambra: A Series Of Tales And Sketches Of The Moors And Spaniards
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Washington Irving
This is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving. Irving lived at the Alhambra Palace while writing some of…
Izaak Walton's Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker and George Her…
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Izaak Walton
The full title of Walton's book of short biographies is, Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C.; Sir Henr…
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
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Various and Walter de la Mare
Twenty-four short stories by famous and not-so-famous British authors. (Summary by David Wales) Note: A shortened section 21 was replaced on…
Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Told for Children
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William Dean Howells
Five short delightful stories for children, told in the voice of "the papa" to "the girl" and "the boy" Willia…
In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories
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Robert Barr
Thirteen short stories by one of the most famous writers in his day. Robert Barr was a British Canadian short story writer and novelist, bor…
In Exile and Other Stories
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Mary Hallock Foote
Six short stories by Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories…
A Touch of the Sun and Other Stories
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Mary Hallock Foote
Four short stories by Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short storie…
Cape Cod Stories
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Joseph Crosby Lincoln
This book (eleven short stories) was also published under the title of “The Old Home House”. Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870 – 1944) was an Amer…
The Case Of The Registered Letter
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Augusta Groner and Auguste Groner
A man is found shot dead and the man to whom all evidence points insists he is innocent. (Summary by David Wales)
Starlight Ranch And Other Stories Of Army Life On The Frontier
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Charles King
Five stories of Army life in the mid to late 19th century. Charles King (1844 – 1933) was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer…
My Hunt After 'The Captain'
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally publ…
The Best American Humorous Short Stories
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Variousandalexander Jessup
Eighteen short stories by famous and little known authors compassing the period 1839 - 1914. The editor's very extensive introduction is omi…
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel
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John Donne
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English theologian and writer John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Lond…
The Man Without A Country And Other Tales
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Edward Everett Hale
Edward Everett Hale was an American author, historian and Unitarian clergyman. Hale first came to notice as a writer in 1859, when he contri…
A Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy Of The Korosko
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Also published under the title The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898). A group of European tourists are enjoying their trip to Egypt in the year …
Outwitting The Hun; My Escape From A German Prison Camp
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Pat O'Brien
A true war narrative, published in 1918 while WWI was still going on. (Summary by David Wales)
The Water Ghost and Others
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John Kendrick Bangs
Eight ghost stories by a master story teller and humorist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Summary by David Wales)
Over The Plum Pudding
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John Kendrick Bangs
Great Caesar’s ghost and shades of A Christmas Carol! Stories – some ghostly, some Christmas, some humorous, some all three -- twelve of the…
Youth and the Bright Medusa, and The Troll Garden
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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
Youth And The Bright Medusa comprises eight short stories published in 1920. Four of them (The Sculptor’s Funeral; A Death In The Desert; A …
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
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Edward Everett Hale
This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories, some of which have been published before. I have added a little essay, written on the occasio…
Visits To The Dead In The Catacombs Of Rome
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George Washington Greene
This essay of a cultured observer, for many years United States consul in Rome, appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 10, issue 59,…
The Hotel D'Angleterre And Other Stories
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Mary Elizabeth Hawker
Five short stories by Lanoe Falconer which is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 - 1908). Her works, though f…
Old Hampshire Vignettes
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Mary Elizabeth Hawker
Lanoe Falconer is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 - 1908). Her works, though few, were well received. She …
Just Sweethearts; A Christmas Love Story
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Harry Stillwell Edwards
“Clearly he was one of those rare beings who can radiate energy standing still and convey the impression of impetuous force without motion, …
Abaft The Funnel
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Rudyard Kipling
"Men in pajamas sitting abaft the funnel and swapping lies of the purple seas." Thirty one early short stories by the master story…
Bernard Treves's Boots; A Novel Of The Secret Service
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Laurence Clarke
What has Manton gotten himself into? His impersonation has broader implications -- and more dangerous ones -- than he had imagined. (Summary…
Rada; A Belgian Christmas Eve
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Alfred Noyes
This is not heart warming holiday fare. It is a short (one-act) unsubtle antiwar play by the English poet Alfred Noyes (1880-1958), publishe…
John Sherman and Dhoya
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William Butler Yeats
In 1891, Yeats published "John Sherman", a novella, and "Dhoya", a Celtic mythologic story. Ganconagh, Yeats’s nom de pl…
Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park
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James W. Schultz
James Willard Schultz, or Apikuni, (1859 – 1947) was a noted author, explorer, Glacier National Park guide, fur trader and historian of the …
Wilderness; A Journal Of Quiet Adventure In Alaska
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Rockwell Kent
The illustrator and author Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)wrote and illustrated this description of a trip to Alaska with his eldest son. Though a…
Through Glacier Park; Seeing America First With Howard Eaton (version 2)
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
This is the first of two travelogues published by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958). Both deal with Glacier National Park. (The other is e…
Tenting To-Night; A Chronicle Of Sport And Adventure In Glacier Park And The Ca…
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
This is the second of two travelogues published by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958). Both deal with Glacier National Park, and this book a…
The Bishop's Secret
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Fergus Hume
Bishop Pendle is the Church of England bishop in a small fictitious English cathedral town. Several years into his work, he receives a visit…
Wounds In The Rain; War Stories
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Stephen Crane
Eleven stories of war by the author of The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane was an American author. He is recognized by modern critics …
Poison Romance And Poison Mysteries
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Charles John Samuel Thompson
A writer and physician, Charles John Samuel Thompson wrote several works on poisons which are still consulted today. He is especially infor…
The Wheel of Time
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Henry James
Fanny Knocker is a very, very plain young woman. She is introduced to the extremely handsome, thoroughly impoverished, younger son of an old…
Christmas Eve At Swamp's End
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Norman Duncan
Four selected chapters from The Measure Of A Man; A Tale of the Big Woods, by Norman Duncan. What could be more Christmasy than: Babies, esp…
Owen Wingrave
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Henry James
A young man of good family with a long distinguished military tradition indicates that he will not follow his ancestors' path into the army.…
Collaboration
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Henry James
It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870--Germany won--the French Second Republic collapsed--France embittered). A French po…
A Cruise in an Opium Clipper
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Lindsay Anderson
Eamont was an opium clipper built in Cowes. It was the subject of an 1891 book, A cruise in an opium clipper, by Captain Lindsay Anderson. …
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
Among Typhoons And Pirate Craft
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Lindsay Anderson
Anderson served as third officer aboard the Eamont. Eamont was an opium clipper built in Cowes. Eamont was involved in the opening of Japan …
Werewolf -- Five Pieces
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Saki
Five stories and essays about werewolves. - Summary by david wales
A Collection Of Stories, Reviews And Essays
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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
Stories and essays by Willa Cather - Summary by david wales
A Changed Man And Other Tales
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Thomas Hardy
Eleven short stories. - Summary by david wales
Life's Little Ironies; A Set Of Tales With Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled A …
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Thomas Hardy
Eighteen short stories by a master story teller. - Summary by david wales
Dog Ghosts
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Elliott O'Donnell
Stories in which ghosts of dogs figure. This is chapter 2, Apparitions Of Dogs, of the book Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Here…
A Picture Book Of Merry Tales
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William James Mcglothlin
Forty European folk tales. Caveats: 1. Some of these stories are not suitable for young children. 2. In two stories (10 and 25) appear the n…
Three Essays by James Freeman Clarke
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James Freeman Clarke
Three diverse essays on souls in animals, a comparison of Buddhism and Christianity, and individualism in religion. Born in Hanover, New Ham…
A Texas Cowboy; Or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony
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Charles A. Siringo
Charles A. Siringo was an American lawman, detective, and agent for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency during the late 19th century and…
Somme Battle Stories
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Alec John Dawson
Stories of World War I warfare, published in 1916 in the midst of the war. (That's why names of persons and units are literally "blanke…
Finn The Wolfhound
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Alec John Dawson
Dawson published over thirty books, the one best remembered today probably being the animal adventure story Finn the Wolfhound (1908)…. Hi…
And Thus He Came
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Cyrus Townsend Brady
These short stories, perhaps we might call them modern parables, are not the usual fare of warm and fuzzy Christmas stories (pleasing as tho…
Andersonville Diary, Escape And List Of The Dead
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John L. Ransom
John L. Ransom was the quartermaster of Company A, 9th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry during the American Civil War and a Union prisoner in the …
Henry Wirz, Commander of Andersonville Confederate Prison: Trial and Execution
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United States Army Staff Judge Advocate
Henry Wirz (November 25, 1823 – November 10, 1865) was the only Confederate soldier tried after the end of the American Civi War. He was tri…
Sevastopol
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Leo Tolstoy
Sevastopol Sketches (Russian: Севастопольские рассказы, Sevastopolskiye rasskazy) are three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and publish…
A Christmas When The West Was Young
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Cyrus Townsend Brady
Babies, new life, a bitter winter blizzard, death circling. How will it all end? (David Wales)
Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West
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Cyrus Townsend Brady
Brady was a journalist, historian, adventure writer, and Episcopal priest. As a priest he spent some time on the American frontier as a miss…
Blazed Trail Stories and Stories Of The Wild Life
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Stewart Edward White
Thirteen short stories by a popular writer of the early 20th century (not to be confused with an earlier book Blazed Trail). White's books …
Inventions Of The Great War
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Alexander Russell Bond
“… this war was not one of mere destruction. It set men to thinking as they had never thought before. It intensified their inventive faculti…
Theodore Roosevelt; An Address Delivered Before The Congress Of The United Stat…
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Henry Cabot Lodge
A biographical encomium delivered on the occasion of Roosevelt's death. Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. (1858 – 1919) was an Amer…
The Discovery Of The Future
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H. G. Wells
The Discovery of the Future is a 1902 philosophical lecture by H. G. Wells that argues for the knowability of the future. It was originally …
Remarkable Rogues: The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America
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Charles Kingston
The title and subtitle pretty much say it all. Twenty biographical sketches of people you would not want your son or daughter to marry. (Sum…
Benjamin Britten: Source Stories of Twelve Operas
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Various
Britten's operas are firmly established in the international repertoire: according to Operabase, they are performed worldwide more than thos…
The Mikado, Or The Town Of Titipu
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W. S. Gilbert
In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions. Even without the support of Arthur Sullivan…
H.M.S. Pinafore; Or, The Lass That Loved A Sailor
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W. S. Gilbert
In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions. Even without the support of Arthur Sullivan…
Auguste Rodin
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Rodin has pronounced Rilke's essay the supreme interpretation of his work. (From the translators’ Preface)Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917, was a …
Who Burnt Columbia?
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Augustine T. Smythe
This LibriVox reading consists of selections from depositions in a lawsuit brought after the end of the American Civil War by some businessm…
The Fringes Of The Fleet
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Rudyard Kipling
During the war (WWI), [Kipling] wrote a booklet The Fringes of the Fleet containing essays and poems on various nautical subjects of the war…
A Fleet In Being; Notes Of Two Trips With The Channel Squadron
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Rudyard Kipling
[Kipling] became involved in the debate over the British response to the rise in German naval power known as the Tirpitz Plan to build a fle…
The Pirates Of Penzance; Or The Slave Of Duty (Version 2)
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W. S. Gilbert
In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions. Even without the support of Arthur Sullivan’…
Day And Night Stories
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Algernon Blackwood
Fifteen short stories by Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (1869 – 1951), an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific w…
The Borough
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George Crabbe
English village life and villagers in the east of England in the late 1700’s and early 1800s—is the subject of The Borough. George Crabbe …
The Winnowing Fan: Poems On The Great War
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Robert Laurence Binyon
This little gem of a book contains twelve poems about World War I. There is more to it than its intrinsic value as verse. Edward Elgar (18…
Pioneer Life Among The Loyalists In Upper Canada
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Walter Stevens Herrington
What became of the citizens who remained loyal to the Crown when the thirteen British colonies rebelled against England – and won! These Lo…
The Measure Of A Man; A Tale Of The Big Woods
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Norman Duncan
A tale of a singular man at work among lumber-jacks. Duncan's droll style and tongue-in-cheek viewpoint keep the reader and listener much en…
Saunterings In And About London
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Max Schlesinger and Max Schlesingertranslated Byotto Von Wenckstern
A witty 1853 travelogue by a cultured German for his countrymen. “…for I did not write for an English public, nor did I ever pretend to popu…
Invention And Discovery: Curious Facts And Characteristic Sketches
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Unknown
"In this little volume are brought together a number of sketches and memoranda, illustrating the history of discovery, and the lives an…
Rejected Of Men; A Story Of Today
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Howard Pyle
This is a setting of the story of Jesus as if it had occurred during early twentieth century America. The narrator's point of view is that o…
The Dwarf's Chamber And Other Stories
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Fergus Hume
Short Stories by Fergus Hume, a prolific English novelist. - Summary by Wikipedia
Cecilia de Noël
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Mary Elizabeth Hawker
Cecilia de Noël is an original and cleverly told ghost story, published in 1891. The story is told, Rashomon-like, from six different v…
Around The Yule Log
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Willis Boyd Allen
Eleven yule-tide stories by a popular writer of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. - (Summary by david wales)
A Versailles Christmas-Tide
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Mary Stuart Boyd
The Boy has fallen ill with scarlet fever while at school in France. His parents rush to his side. A touching memoir. - Summary by david w…
Christmas Stories from French and Spanish Writers
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Pedro Antonio De Alarcón Y Ariza
Fifteen short stories by Antoinette Ogden from French and Spanish writers of many times. - Summary by david wales
Abraham Lincoln: A Commemoration – 15 April 2015
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Various
April 14-15th, 2015, is the 150th year anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. This is a collection of pieces to mark that…
California History -- Two Pieces
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Various
Alfred Louis Kroeber (1876-1960) was an American cultural anthropologist who founded the anthropology department at the University of Calif…
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
Mademoiselle Ixe
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Mary Elizabeth Hawker
This is a story by the English writer Mary Elizabeth Hawker (1848-1908) entitled Mademoiselle Ixe, by[pseudonym] Lanoe Falconer. The manuscr…
Barry Blake Of The Flying Fortress
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Gaylord Dubois
Gaylord DuBois wrote juvenile literature for decades. This is a boys' adventure story about serving in the American World War II flying cor…
The Compleat Bachelor
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Oliver Onions
George Oliver Onions was a British writer of story collections and over 40 novels…. Onions wrote detective fiction, social comedy, historica…
Early Days Of Old Oregon
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Katharine Berry Judson
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…
Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest
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Katharine Berry Judson
"...The preparation of a volume of the quainter, purer myths, suitable for general reading, authentic, and with illustrations of the co…
The American Far West: Seven Mid-Nineteenth Century Views From Abroad
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Various
Charles Dickens started and edited a magazine called All The Year Round, a weekly collection of articles on a wide variety of topics. An an…
Yellowstone National Park: Six Early Pieces
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Various
Lost in the wilderness of The Yellowstone for over a month, nearly dying of starvation and wild animal attack, despairing of ever finding hi…
Naval Occasions And Some Traits Of The Sailor-Man
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Bartimeus
Twenty-six stories of pre-World War I British naval life in war and peace. - Summary by david wales
Tales of English Minsters: Hereford
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Elizabeth W. Grierson
This short book was originally written for children, though adults will also find it worthwhile. It tells interesting history of Hereford i…
Gossip In The First Decade Of Victoria's Reign
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John Ashton
"I have written this Gossip not only for the edification of those to whom a portion, more or less, may be news, but for those who, like…
Stories From Wagner
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J. Walker McSpadden
Eleven stories of eleven operas by Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold. Die Walküre. Siegfried. Götterdämmerung. Parsifal. Lohengrin. Ta…
The Third Circle
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Frank Norris
Sixteen short stories by the American novelist Benjamin Frank Norris Jr (1870-1902) who wrote predominantly in the naturalist genre. He liv…
Schubert And His Works
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Herbert Francis Peyser
This is a short introduction to Franz Schubert’s life and works. “…to give the casual radio listener a slight idea of Schubert’s inundating…
Tales Of King Arthur And The Round Table
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Andrew Lang
The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history o…
A Shepherd's Life; Impressions Of The South Wiltshire Downs
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William Henry Hudson
Hudson wrote this classic work in 1910; it is admiringly mentioned by many other writers. It focuses on the memories of a head shepherd, Ca…
Myths And Legends Of The Pacific Northwest Especially Of Washington And Oregon
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Katharine Berry Judson
The basis on which these myths were selected necessarily excluded those which showed traces of the white man's religion or of the red man's …
The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men
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Max Beerbohm
Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tir…
That House I Bought; A Little Leaf From Life
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Henry Edward Warner
This is a whimsical, entertaining, tongue in cheek narrative of the author’s purchase of a house, circa 1911. - Summary by david wales
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Herbert Francis Peyser
Mozart’s earthly career was so poignantly short yet so filled with incalculable achievement that the author of this booklet finds himself co…
Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From H…
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William Tecumseh Sherman
This librivox recording comprises part of chapter 22 and all of chapter 23 (The March To The Sea – From Atlanta To Savannah – November And D…
Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs
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William Tecumseh Sherman
This LibriVox recording comprises three chapters from American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. The chapters deal with…
Sherman’s Military Lessons Of The American Civil War, From His Memoirs
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William Tecumseh Sherman
This LibriVox recording comprises chapter 25 (Conclusion – Military Lessons Of The War) of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memo…
Joseph Conrad
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Hugh Walpole
This is a literary biography of Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) who is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English. He was granted Brit…
The Cathedral
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Hugh Walpole
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 c…
Christmas Stories From 'Household Words' And 'All The Year Round'
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Charles Dickens
Twenty stories originally published in the Christmas editions of the magazines “Household Words” and “All The Year Round”. Some of the stori…
Escape From The Confederacy
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Benjamin F. Hasson
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 pris…
Myths And Legends Of British North America
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Katharine Berry Judson
[The Native American] story tellers of the camp related, with dramatic gestures, stories of the Days of the Grandfathers, in the beginning o…
Jeremy
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Hugh Walpole
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 …
Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes
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Katharine Berry Judson
It is a loss to American literature that so much of the legendary history of these Indian tribes has gone, beyond hope of recovery. Exquisit…
California Sketches New And Old
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Oscar Penn Fitzgerald
Here we meet all sorts of characters and situations in California’s early history: gunmen, outlaws, lynch mobs, raging storms, mining camps,…
The Romance Of Modern Sieges; Describing The Personal Adventures, Resource And …
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Edward Gilliat
Lively narratives of some of the great siege battles of war. The book was written before World War I, in 1908. Some of the narratives contai…
Captain William Kidd And Others Of The Buccaneers
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John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Pirate stories galore! Pirate life was not always what it seemed from the outside. - Summary by david wales
Juju
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Murray Leinster
A 1919 pulp-press tale of deepest darkest Africa. - Summary by david wales
A Child's Book Of The Seasons
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Arthur Ransome
This book is part of the author’s "Nature Books For Children" series (three books), which is probably the best indication of its t…
Pond And Stream
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Arthur Ransome
This book is part of the author’s "Nature Books For Children" series (three books), which is probably the best indication of its t…
A Child's Book of the Garden: The Things in Our Garden
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Arthur Ransome
This book is part of the author’s "Nature Books For Children" series (three books), which is probably the best indication of its t…
Tales Of Lonely Trails
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Zane Grey
Western novelist Zane Grey (1872-1939) also wrote nonfiction books about the American West and its country. This 1922 tribute to country he…
The Indians Of Carlsbad Caverns National Park
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Margaret Herschel and Jack R. Williams
A short review of the history and presence of Native Americans in the area of the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, USA. - Summary by david wa…
Contagion
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Katherine Maclean
Minos was such a lovely planet. Not a thing seemed wrong with it. Excepting the food, perhaps. And a disease that wasn't really. Originally…
The Times' Red Cross Story Book By Famous Novelists Serving In His Majesty's Fo…
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Various
These eighteen stories were published in 1915, in the midst of World War I. "Published For The Times' Fund For The Sick And Wounded&qu…
Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of The Universe: Introduction
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Alexander Von Humboldt
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of romantic phi…
Shandygaff
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Christopher Morley
A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to th…
The Village and The Library
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George Crabbe
The Village is Crabbe’s corrective to the rosy-tinted view of English village and rural working class life. He was a stark realist, as a pri…
Myths and Legends of Alaska (version 2)
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Katharine Berry Judson
The myths in this 1911 volume are authentic. The original collections were made by government ethnologists. Only the quaintest and purest o…
A Thin Ghost And Others
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M. R. James
Five ghost stories, published in 1920, by the early twentieth century master of ghostery. - Summary by david wales
Kai Lung's Golden Hours
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Ernest Bramah
Kai Lung’s Golden Hours is a frame story or frame novel, that is, the narrative provides a frame for different stories. Think One Thousand A…
Ghosts And Family Legends; A Volume For Christmas
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Catherine Crowe
Fifteen ghost stories to hear around the Yule log. "It happened that I spent the last winter in a large country mansion, in the north o…
Hospital Transports; A Memoir Of The Embarkation Of The Sick And Wounded From T…
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Frederick Law Olmsted
In the American Civil War, The United States Sanitary Commission, staffed by volunteers, may be viewed as a precursor to The Red Cross. It s…
Trivia (1917) And More Trivia (1921)
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Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) was an American-born British essayist who was known for his epigrams and aphorisms, often humorous. This re…
Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains (version 2)
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Katharine Berry Judson
Here, amidst the vast sweep of the plains which stretch away to the horizon on every side, boundless, limitless, endless, lived the plains I…
Under The Sky In California
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Charles Francis Saunders
This is a 1913 travelogue by a then-well-known botanist who wrote many books about the American Southwest and California in particular. This…
Modern Essays
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Christopher Morley
Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…
Christmas Outside Of Eden
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Coningsby Dawson
A delightful Christmas fantasy told with inimitable charm and delicate humor. It is "the story the robins tell as they huddle beneath t…
Letters From America
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Rupert Brooke
"[Rupert Brooke] started in May 1913 on a journey to the United States, Canada, and the South Seas, from which he returned next year at…
Ludwig Van Beethoven
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Pitts Sanborn
The late Pitts Sanborn wrote this booklet under the title Beethoven and his Nine Symphonies... I have left Mr. Sanborn’s pages on the symph…
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Herbert Francis Peyser
Compared with the unimaginable richness of his inner life as the overpowering volume and splendor of his works reveal it, Bach’s day-to-day …
Tschaikovsky And His Orchestral Music
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Louis Biancolli
Included in this little book are analyses and backgrounds of most of Tschaikowsky’s standard concert music. A short sketch of Tschaikowsky’s…
Joseph Haydn; Servant And Master
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Herbert Francis Peyser
Haydn, barring a few hardships in his youth, lived an extraordinarily fortunate life and had abundant reason for the optimism which marked e…
George Frideric Handel
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Herbert Francis Peyser
Handel’s long career resembles a gigantic tapestry, so bewilderingly crowded with detail, so filled with turmoil and vicissitude, with vast …
Hector Berlioz; A Romantic Tragedy
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Herbert Francis Peyser
How much more futile is it to attempt on the minuscule scale of the following tiny, if rambling, pamphlet to touch upon even a thousandth of…
Mendelssohn And Certain Masterworks
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Herbert Francis Peyser
In the compass of the present pamphlet it is impossible to give more than a cursory survey of Mendelssohn’s happy but extraordinarily crowde…
Richard Strauss
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Herbert Francis Peyser
There was not much truly spectacular about the course of [Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bede…
Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic
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Herbert Francis Peyser
[This is] the sketchiest outline of Robert Schumann’s short life but amazingly rich achievement. Together with Haydn and Schubert he was, pe…
An Alabama Student And Other Biographical Essays
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Sir William Osler
Here are thirteen biographical sketches of physicians penned by one of the founders of modern medicine, William Osler, published in 1908. &…
Campaign For Petersburg
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Richard Wayne Lykes
In the American Civil War the Union victory in the ten-month campaign for the city of Petersburg, Virginia (June 1864-March 1865), led direc…
Two Diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February - May, 1…
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Susan R. Jervey
Two diaries from Middle St. John’s, Berkeley, South Carolina, February – May, 1865. Journals kept by Miss Susan R. Jervey and Miss Charlott…
The Prodigal Village; A Christmas Tale
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Irving Bacheller
Small town life in early twentieth century New York state. This is a piquant parable of human nature. Bacheller's lightly humorous voice is …
Walking-Stick Papers
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Robert Cortes Holliday
Robert Cortes Holliday (1880 – 1947) was an American writer and literary editor. Writer and friend, Christopher Morley, wrote of Holliday…
Recollections of Oscar Wilde
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Franz Blei
This 1906 collection of memories of Oscar Wilde is by friends. Wilde said that his genius was his life; only his talent was in his works. (S…
Famous Assassinations Of History
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Francis Johnson
It has been the object of the writer to make each of these “famous assassinations” the central scene of a picture in which the political, re…
Theodore Winthrop: A Civil War Narrative Aborted by Death
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Theodore Winthrop
Theodore Winthrop (1828 – 1861) was a charismatic writer, lawyer, and world traveler. In the New York Seventh Regiment, he was one of the fi…
Oscar Wilde: A Study
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André Gide
This is a 1905 memoir of one great litterateur’s latter days written by another great litterateur. This recording omits the numerous footnot…
A Christmas Miscellany
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Various
A selection of eight short works, chapters, or poems about Christmas. - Summary by david wales
Sheriff Larrabee's Prisoner
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Max Brand
The stranger rode up in the pouring rain to the lonely ranch house. Before dawn he was riding quickly away. Who had killed old Mr. Benton?…
Never: A Handbook For The Uninitiated And Inexperienced Aspirants To Refined So…
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Nathan Dane Urner
An 1883 tongue-in-cheek spoof of manners and mannerisms of “society”. ‘the “Open Sesame” to that jealously-guarded realm,—good society,—in …
Young Readers Science Fiction Stories
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Richard Mace Elam
This 1957 book contains thirteen pre-space-exploration stories for young readers. Some of the details show their dated composition (we now…
The Cross Brand
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Max Brand
Jack Bristol shot the sheriff and stole his horse. He rode off, not into the sunset, but into the mountains. The mountain man held him cap…
Kaffir, Kangaroo, Klondike; Tales Of The Gold Fields
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Thaddeus William Henry Leavitt
Seven short stories. - Summary by david wales
The Good Soldier; A Selection Of Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918
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N. P. Dawson
“Here are boys, all sorts of boys: French, English, Italian, American… These are soldiers’ letters written home. But reading, one finds t…
The Martyrdom Of Belgium; Official Report Of Massacres Of Peaceable Citizens, W…
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George Cooreman
The title says it all. World War I narratives of German activities in Belgium after the German invasion of this neutral country. - Summary b…
Canyon de Chelly; The Story of its Ruins and People
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Zorro A. Bradley
A 1973 U.S. government publication describing the history and physical characteristics of this Arizona national monument within the boundari…
A Cathedral Singer
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James Lane Allen
New York City in the early 20th century, a boy with an angelic voice, his devoted mother, the great Episcopal Cathedral of Saint John The Di…
The White Cowl
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James Lane Allen
A Trappist monastery in nineteenth century Kentucky. A young monk. A young woman in distress. Whither? One might want to compare this story …
Sister Dolorosa
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James Lane Allen
A Carmelite convent in Kentucky in the nineteenth century. A beautiful immature nun. A handsome immature visitor. A chance meeting. Whither?…
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919
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Various
Fifteen short stories of 1919, winners of a rigorous competition. The extensive Introduction is omitted from this recording. ( david wales)
The Bomb: The 1945 Test of the First Atomic Bomb
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Various
These two publications put out by the U.S. government are about the Trinity site in New Mexico where in 1945 the first atomic bomb was teste…
A Soldier Of The Legion;An Englishman's Adventures Under The French Flag in Alg…
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George Manington
An educated gentleman, Mr Manington has given an insight into the unusual experiences of an Englishman in the French Foreign Legion, such as…
Round The Fire Stories
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In the present [1908] collection those [stories] have been brought together which are concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible—suc…
The Giant Crab And Other Tales From Old India
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W.H.D. Rouse and W. H. D. Rouse
This is the first collection by this author of charming folk tales from India. There is a second entitled The Talking Thrush (LibriVox audio…
The Talking Thrush And Other Tales From India
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W.H.D. Rouse and W. H. D. Rouse
This is the second collection by this author of charming folk tales from India. The first collection is entitled The Giant Crab (Librivox au…
The Mirror Of Kong Ho
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Ernest Bramah
This 1905 tongue-in-cheek book is ostensibly the letters of a dutiful son to his Chinese father describing his encounter with and experience…
Three Days On The Ohio River
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William A Alcott and William A. Alcott
This 1854 narration of a trip upon the Ohio River in a steamboat from Cincinnati to Pittsburg gives a picture of travel in a different time…
With The American Ambulance Field Service In France; Personal Letters Of A Driv…
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Leslie Buswell
This 1915 publication collects letters written by a driver for the American ambulance service. The incidents they relate occurred before the…
Tales Of The Royal Irish Constabulary
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Unknown
The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC, simply called the Irish Constabulary 1836–67) was the armed police force of the United Kingdom in Ireland…
Tea Drinking In 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette And Equipage
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Rodris Roth
The title of this 1961 Smithsonian Institution bulletin says it all. “In 18th-century America, the pleasant practice of taking tea at home …
Minstrel Weather
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Marian Storm
A series of poetically written meditations on the seasons and other nature subjects. Or “ …Minstrel Weather, a series of open-air vignettes…
Fort Concho; Its Why And Wherefore
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J. N. Gregory
Fort Concho was a U.S. Army post in central Texas from 1867 to 1889. It figured considerably in the Indian Wars, notably against the Comanch…
The British Army From Within
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E. Charles Vivian
This 1914 book gives a picture of the British Army structure and life in the early hours of World War I. Summary by david wales
The Madman: His Parables And Poems and The Forerunner: His Parables And Poems
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Kahlil Gibran
Two short books by the Lebanese-American writer, poet, and mystic. Reflections on existence and life, purpose and meaning. His most famous w…
Prophets, Priests, And Kings
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Alfred George Gardiner
These biographical essays of (mostly) British subjects were written in 1907-1908 for The Daily News newspaper and reflect their subjects as …
Romance of California Life; Illustrated By Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pa…
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John Habberton
These 37 short stories were authored by John Habberton (1842–1921), an American writer. He spent nearly twenty years as the literary and dr…
A Christmas Miscellany 2017
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Various
A selection of short works about Christmas. (Summary by david wales)
London (Ancient And Modern) From The Sanitary And Medical Point Of View
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George Vivian Poore
This little book is an expansion of two addresses delivered in January, 1889. One deals with sanitary issues in London. The other deals with…
The Long, Long Trail
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Max Brand
A willful flirtatious girl; a morose family; a dark, mysterious, and (to some) alluring man; lots of horses, guns, honor, love, courage, and…
Night Operations For Infantry - Compiled For The Use Of Company Officers (1916)
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Charles Tyrwhitt Dawkins
"It must be remembered that many of our men up to the time of their enlistment have passed their lives entirely in large towns, and hav…
The Bet and Other Stories
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Anton Chekhov
Thirteen short stories by the master. Summary by david wales
Lectures On Painting Delivered To The Students Of The Royal Academy
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Edward Armitage
This 1883 book contains chapters on ancient costumes, Byzantine and Romanesque art, David and his school, modern schools of Europe, drawing,…
Recollections And Letters Of General Robert E. Lee By His Son
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Robert E. Lee, Jr.
The life of the Confederate States of America general, Robert E. Lee, through the eyes of his youngest son, who was also a Confederate Army …
From Slave Cabin To Pulpit and Sketches Of Slave Life
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Peter Randolph
Peter Randolph was born a slave in 1825 (?), was freed before the American Civil War, and became a clergyman in the Baptist tradition, dying…
Clergymen Of The Church Of England
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Anthony Trollope
This 1866 book was published in a time of great change in the Church of England. Trollope began as a High Church adherent and then worked h…
The Tower Of London
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Arthur Poyser
Description. History. “… those who read this book and have no opportunity of visiting the Tower expect that the characters in the moving d…
The Best Church Hymns
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Louis Fitzgerald Benson
This 1898 book is the result of a survey of 107 hymn-books. The thirty-two hymns are ranked in order of popularity. The texts in this reco…
Campaigning With Grant
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Horace Porter
In the last year of the American Civil War, Horace Porter served as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant, then commander of all the armi…
The Raven and The Philosophy Of Composition
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Edgar Allan Poe
Poe’s famous narrative poem and the author’s reflections on its composition. (David Wales)
Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples…
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Giovanni Battista Belzoni
Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778 – 1823) was an Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He is known for his remo…
A Study Of Army Camp Life During American Revolution
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Mary Hazel Snuff
Housing, Food, Clothing, Health, Sanitation, Recreation, Religion, Duties, Discipline. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the req…
The Private Soldier Under Washington
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Charles Knowles Bolton
Much was been written about the American Revolution, but our knowledge of the private solders of the patriot army is confined chiefly to Was…
Cupid's Cyclopedia
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Oliver Herford
This 1910 short work is by the English-born American humorist, satirist, and illustrator Oliver Herford, aided by another caricaturist and i…
The Crimson Gardenia And Other Tales Of Adventure
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Rex Beach
Published in 1916, this book collects eleven stories originally published in several different magazines. Beach’s adventure stories were im…
St Andrews Ghost Stories
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William Thomas Linskill
Seventeen ghost stories (fourth edition published 1921) centered around the ruined medieval cathedral of Saint Andrew in the Scots city of t…
The Race Of The Swift
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Edwin Carlile Litsey
This 1905 collection is of the author’s short animal stories, some previously published in magazines. - Summary by David Wales
Jim The Story Of A Backwoods Police Dog (And Other Stories)
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Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
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, y…
Around The Campfire
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Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
Action and adventure short stories of men and animals in the wild. - Summary by David Wales
The Egregious English
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T. W. H. Crosland
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 s…
Idle Hours In A Library
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William Henry Hudson
“[these essays on Shakespeare, Pepys, Restoration novels, and bohemianism]—the results of many hours of quiet but rather aimless browsing am…
The Last Three Soldiers
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William Henry Shelton
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…
Lanagan Amateur Detective
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Edward H. Hurlbut
This is a 1913 collection of ten short detective stories by a not well known writer. Jack Lanagan is a police reporter for a daily newspaper…
The Night The Mountain Fell; The Story Of The Montana-Yellowstone Earthquake
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Edmund Christopherson
A severe earthquake, centered in the vacation area of West Yellowstone, Montana, shook the ground and its inhabitants and visitors on August…
Pierrot, Dog Of Belgium
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Walter Alden Dyer
This 1915 novella was published as the First World War raged. "Belgium lies bleeding. Across her level, lush meadows the harsh-shod h…
Gulliver The Great And Other Dog Stories
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Walter Alden Dyer
This 1916 book is a collection of sixteen of the author's dog stories previously published in magazines. ( David Wales)
The City That Was
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Stephen Smith
This 1911 history of the public health revolution that transformed New York City in the nineteenth century is also about every city and town…
San Francisco Before And After The Earthquake
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William Henry Irwin, Willi Irwin and Will Irwin
As all but Martians know (and who knows, perhaps even they), the city of San Francisco, California, was destroyed by massive earthquake and …
The Pilgrimage Of Etheria
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Etheria
This (probably) late fourth century common era (A.D.) narrative of a Christian pilgrimage is the earliest such text which survives to us. It…
The Human Boy
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Eden Phillpotts
This collection of eleven short stories, both humorous and touching, about English school boys was published in 1900. The book was quite pop…
The Human Boy Again
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Eden Phillpotts
Published in 1908, this is a further collection of twelve humorous short stories about English school boys. The author wrote two other book…
Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee Being His Story…
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Charles Todd Quintard
Charles Quintard (1824-1898) was an Episcopal priest who, in spite of his pro-Union stance, volunteered to be a chaplain in the Confederate …
A Christmas Miscellany 2018
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Various
Sixteen Christmas stories or essays. (David Wales)
Pope Adrian IV; An Historical Sketch
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Richard Raby
Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100-1159, pope 1154-1159) was the only English pope. Written by a Catholic in 1849, this biography of the pope appeare…
Loafing Along Death Valley Trails; A Personal Narrative Of People And Places
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William Caruthers
William Caruthers was a retired newspaperman who spent 25 years listening to stories told by the inhabitants of Death Valley. This 1951 book…
The Dogs Of Boytown
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Walter Alden Dyer
This collection of stories about dogs and the people they own was published in 1918. The story proceeds leisurely with much information abou…
Custer Battlefield: A History And Guide To The Battle Of The Little Bighorn
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Robert Marshall Utley
It should be noted that this national park is now called the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. “The long, tragic history of Ind…
Causes Of The American Civil War: Secession Statements Of Five Confederate Stat…
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Various
Some of the states who rebelled against the Federal Government in the American Civil War issued statements by nascent governing bodies expla…
The Romance Of The Commonplace
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Frank Gelett Burgess
Thirty four whimsical, tongue-in-cheek, and entertaining essays about not much in particular, published in 1902, by one of the most popular …
Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi
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William C. Everhart
In the American Civil War, the Vicksburg campaign (December 1862-July 1863) was a pivotal victory for the Union under the generalship of Uly…
Treatises On Friendship And Old Age
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship. Old Age. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer, and philosopher. He is considered one …
Travel Stories Retold From St. Nicholas
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Various
St. Nicholas was a popular magazine aimed at young folks in the late nineteenth – early twentieth century. Its articles were usually well-w…
The Human Boy And The War
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Eden Phillpotts
Published in 1916, this is the third collection of thirteen humorous short stories about English school boys in a boarding school in the fic…
Biographical Notice Of Nicolo Paganini With An Analysis Of His Compositions And…
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Francois-Joseph Fetis
Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (1782 – 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was the most celebra…
Old Testament Legends Being Stories Out Of Some Of The Less-Known Apocryphal Bo…
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M. R. James
M R James was a well regarded English scholar who studied the medieval period (he also wrote great ghost stories!). Apocryphal books are a…
One Hundred Years In Yosemite: The Story Of A Great Park And Its Friends
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Carl Parcher Russell
This recording of the 1931 (1947 second edition) book about Yosemite National Park comprises the narrative text about the Park from its disc…
The Light Invisible
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Robert Hugh Benson
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 En…
A Mirror Of Shalott
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Robert Hugh Benson
Fourteen stories of the strange by the Anglican then Roman Catholic priest, Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914). The form of the book is of stori…
Use Of The Dead To The Living
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Thomas Southwood Smith
In 1827 Thomas Southwood-Smith published The Use of the Dead to the Living, a pamphlet which argued that the current system of burial in the…
The Characters Of Theophrastus
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Theophrastus
Theophrastus ( c. 371 – c. 287 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic School. He wrote on many to…
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol
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William John Locke
This 1912 collection of short stories is of lighthearted adventures of an irresponsible -- and irrepressible -- Frenchman in England and Par…
William Again
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Richmal Crompton
Fourteen more stories about William Brown. William is a mischievous eleven year old who is puzzled by the adult world, which is no less puzz…
Short Stories Of William Henry Harrison Murray
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William Henry Harrison Murray
Murray (1840-1904) was a sometime clergyman, journalist, and purveyor of the outdoor life. His books did much to popularize the virtues of …
Tales Of English Minsters: Canterbury Cathedral Kent and Saint Paul's London
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Elizabeth W. Grierson
These simple stories of two of England’s greatest cathedrals were originally written for youth (1910) but adults will also enjoy them. St. …
Thrilling Adventures By Land And Sea
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James O. Brayman
There is in the adventures of the daring and heroic, something that interests all. There is a charm about them which, while it partakes of t…
Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War
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Various
Seven narratives published in the late nineteenth century and assembled in this 1913 collection. - Summary by david wales
Tales Of The Trail; Short Stories Of Western Life
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Henry Inman
This 1898 collection of thirteen previously published articles exhibits the acute perception of one of the most popular writers of the late …
Audubon's Western Journal: 1849-1850
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John Woodhouse Audubon
John Woodhouse Audubon (1812-1862), son of the famous painter John James Audubon and an artist in his own right, joined Col. Henry Webb's Ca…
The Hurricane Hunters
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Ivan Ray Tannehill
This 1955 book by an acknowledged authority is an absorbing account of meteorology before the advent of weather satellites. “This is the li…
A Surgeon In Arms
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Robert James Manion
Robert James Manion (1881-1943) was a Canadian doctor who volunteered in the Canadian medical corps during World War I. This book is his me…
Pep: The Story Of A Brave Dog
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Clarence Hawkes
This 1922 adventure story for youth and dog lovers will delight anyone with just a little suspension of disbelief. Sentimental and anthropom…
A Christmas Miscellany 2019
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Various
Nine stories about Christmas or around Christmastime. - Summary by david wales
Full Speed Ahead: Tales From The Log Of A Correspondent
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Henry Beston
“These tales are memories of several months spent as a special correspondent attached to the forces of the American Navy on foreign service……
Christmas With Lucy Maud Montgomery: A Selection Of Stories
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
This work is a selection of Christmas stories (or sometimes chapters) of Lucy Maud Montgomery from different sources and different times. Th…
Jeremy And Hamlet: A Chronicle Of Certain Incidents In The Lives Of A Boy, A Do…
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Hugh Walpole
Hamlet is Jeremy’s dog. This 1923 book is Hugh Walpole’s second volume in his Jeremy semi-autobiographical trilogy (Jeremy (1919 available a…
The Thirteen Travelers
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Hugh Walpole
The year is 1919 and peace has sprung upon the world after the unspeakable carnage of World War I. The place is Hortons, a building of expen…
Reminiscences Of A Workhouse Medical Officer
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Joseph Rogers
Joseph Rogers (1821-1889) was an English physician, medical officer, and health care reformer in London. The system of poor-law dispensarie…
The Loot Of Cities
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Arnold Bennett
Published in 1917, this is a collection of a novella and seven short stories by one of the cleverest authors of the early twentieth century.…
The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel
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A. E. W. Mason
Inspector Hanaud is a member of the French Sûreté. He is said to have been the model for Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, as w…
Saint Joan: Preface
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George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th-century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her…
The Old Ladies
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Hugh Walpole
“Quite a number of years ago there was an old rickety building on the rock above Seatown in Polchester, and it was one of a number in an old…
The House Of The Arrow
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A. E. W. Mason
A young English girl is accused in Dijon of murdering her French aunt. Hanaud to the rescue! Inspector Hanaud is a member of the French S&uc…
Richmond National Battlefield Park, Virginia
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Joseph P. Cullen
Richmond, Virginia, was the capital of The Confederacy during the American Civil War, 1861-1865. It was the focus of two military campaigns…
Bashan And I
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Thomas Mann
Simple and unpretentious as a statement by Francis d’Assisi, yet full of a gentle modern sophistication and humour, this little work will br…
Stories of the Ships
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Lewis R. Freeman
While most associate the "Great War" with trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, and poison gas, ships played roles in the military …
The Garden Of Folly
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Stephen Leacock
A 1924 collection of essays by the celebrated Canadian humorist, popular in the first half of the twentieth century throughout the English s…
Work Of The Sisters During The Epidemic Of Influenza October, 1918
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Francis Edward Tourscher
In 1918 over 2,000 Roman Catholic nuns left their convents in the Philadelphia area to nurse the sick and dying of the influenza epidemic. …
Bransford Of Rainbow Range
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Eugene Manlove Rhodes
A genuine cowboy who speaks a bit of Greek? Ditto a bit of The Litany? And more than a little verse, including (would you believe?) Alice In…
The Domestic Slave Trade Of The Southern States
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Winfield Hazlitt Collins
This 1904 history of slavery in the southeastern United States reflects the state of knowledge at that time, of course. The text contains s…
Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance
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Ford Madox Ford
Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though…
The Backwash Of War: The Human Wreckage Of The Battlefield As Witnessed By An A…
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Ellen Newbold La Motte
Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873–1961) was an American nurse, journalist and author. … and in 1915 volunteered as one of the first American war …
The Road Past Kennesaw: The Atlanta Campaign Of 1864
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Richard M. Mcmurry
“…there can be little doubt that the Federal drive on Atlanta, launched in May 1864, was the beginning of the end for the Southern Confedera…
A Christmas Miscellany 2020
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Various
Nine stories, chapters, or essays about Christmas or around Christmas. - Summary by David Wales
Infamous Day: Marines At Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941
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Robert James Cressman and Robert J. Cressman
Historical overview and personal reminiscences published in 1992. Pearl Harbor attack 7 December 1941. Part of U.S. Government U.S. Marine…
Your United States: Impressions Of A First Visit
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Arnold Bennett
Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journal…
Vindication Of The Rights Of Men, In A Letter To The Right Honourable Edmund Bu…
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism. It was published in response to …
The Grim Smile Of The Five Towns
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Arnold Bennett
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (1907) is the second major collection of stories written by Arnold Bennett. (The first is Tales Of The Five…
Over There: War Scenes On The Western Front
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Arnold Bennett
Bennett's served in many capacities in the WWI war effort. After a visit to the Western Front he wrote this 1915 collection of essays about …
Elsie And The Child; A Tale Of Riceyman Steps And Other Stories
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Arnold Bennett
Thirteen short stories (1924) by a master story teller of the early twentieth century. His writings, fiction and nonfiction, were popular wi…
Ronald And I; Or Studies From Life
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Alfred Pretor
This is a collection of essays (1899) on English village life in the late nineteenth century. The essay “My Rector” was the focus of some co…
Henry James At Work
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Theodora Bosanquet
Bosanquet (1880-1961) was secretary or amanuensis to James from 1907 to his death in 1916. She wrote this essay (1924) eight years after hi…
Andreas Vesalius, The Reformer of Anatomy
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James Moores Ball
Vesalius (born in Brussels, 1514-1564) is one of the foundation stones of modern medicine. Forsaking the study of anatomy by reading the anc…
The Prelude To Adventure
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Hugh Walpole
Olva Dune is a Cambridge undergraduate who commits a murder and at that moment feels the presence of God. In a tour de force Walpole noveliz…
The Wooden Horse
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Hugh Walpole
Walpole’s first novel (1909), The Wooden Horse is the story of the Trojans, a family which accepted tranquilly the belief that they were the…
In The Footprints Of The Padres
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Charles Warren Stoddard
The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This…
Life At The Zoo: Notes And Traditions Of The Regent's Park Gardens
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Charles John Cornish
London Zoo is the world's oldest scientific zoo. Opening in 1828, it was originally intended to be used as a collection for the scientific…
Idylls Of The Sea And Other Marine Sketches
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Frank Thomas Bullen
In these little sketches [1899] of a few out of the innumerable multitude of ways in which the sea has spoken to me during my long acquainta…
Understanding English Cathedrals: Terminology, Architecture, Organization, And …
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Esther Singleton
This recording comprises chapters from two different works: How To Visit The English Cathedrals (1912) by Esther Singleton, and The Cathedr…
The Log Of A Sea-Waif: Being Recollections Of The First Four Years Of My Sea Li…
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Frank Thomas Bullen
The brilliant author of "The Cruise of the Cachalot" and "Idylls of the Sea" presents in this new work (1899) the contin…
Christmas Tales Of Flanders
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Andre De Ridder
“The Christmas Tales Of Flanders presented in this volume are popular fables and legends current in Flanders and Brabant, which have for cen…
An Apache Campaign In The Sierra Madre
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John Gregory Bourke
An account of the expedition [of the U.S. Army] in pursuit of the hostile Chiricahua Apaches in the spring of 1883. (Book subtitle) Bourke w…
The Medicine-Men Of The Apache
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John Gregory Bourke
“Herewith I have the honor to submit a paper upon the paraphernalia of the medicine-men of the Apache and other tribes. Analogues have been …
The Pinafore Picture Book: The Story Of H.M.S. Pinafore (Version 2)
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W. S. Gilbert
Pinafore’s sublimely silly story is made even sillier by this (ostensibly for children) 1908 story version of the 1878 Gilbert and Sullivan …
Anglo-American Memories
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George Washburn Smalley
“These Memories [1911] were written in the first instance for Americans and have appeared week by week each Sunday in the New York Tribune….…
Silly Verses: Selections From Shores, Carroll, Lear, and Gilbert
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Lewis Carroll, W. S. Gilbert, Edward Lear and Robert J. Shores
Silly and fun verses beginning with the lesser known Robert J. Shores and going on to the more known Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and W.S. Gi…
The Causes Of The American Civil War
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John Lothrop Motley
John Lothrop Motley (1814 – 1877) was an American author and popular diplomat, who helped to prevent European intervention on the side of th…
Portrait Of A Man With Red Hair; A Romantic Macabre
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Hugh Walpole
Is the father insane or merely sadistic, a man entombed in a spirit of malevolence? This 1925 novel by a perceptive observer explores the te…
Titan Of Chasms: The Grand Canyon Of Arizona
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Charles F. Lummis
This is a 1906 collection of three essays by men famously associated with The Grand Canyon: Charles A. Higgins, John Wesley Powell, and Cha…
Wongo And The Wise Old Crow
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Grace Moon
Stories of an Indian boy and his friends told by a children’s author of yesteryear, published 1923. - Summary by david wales
Two American Slavery Documents
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James Mars
This recording contains two original documents. 1) Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut, by James Mars (1869). James …
A Gringo In Mañana-Land
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Harry La Tourette Foster
Foster was a World War I veteran, world wanderer, journalist, embassy attaché, stoker on ships, miner, stowaway, bandit’s prisoner in…
A Christmas Miscellany 2021
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Various
Seven chapters involving Christmas from different books. Plus part 8 which is twelve verses about Christmas and part 9 which is four Christm…
A Soldier's Diary
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Ralph Scott
This 1923 memoir of a World War I soldier (Royal Engineer and hand-to-hand combatant) is a well written much respected first-hand account of…
Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland
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Frederick Herman Tilberg
The American Civil War battle at Antietam, Maryland,(called Sharpsburg by the Confederacy) on 17 September 1862, has been called the bloodie…
Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania
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Frederick Herman Tilberg
On the gently rolling farm lands surrounding the little town of Gettysburg, Pa., was fought one of the great decisive battles of American hi…
Two Essays On Military History, Strategy, and Tactics: Mountain Warfare (1909) …
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Wilkinson Dent Bird
One essay (1909) lays out tactics for mountain fighting, focused on British Army experience on the Indian frontier (Afghanistan), penned by …
South-Sea Idyls
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Charles Warren Stoddard
The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote quite popular travel books, especially those about Polynesia. South-Sea Idyls (1873)…
Into The Valley Of Death: Crimea, Balaklava, The Light Brigade: Russell, Tennys…
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Various
The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1854) is a famous poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It is about, among other things, the valor of soldiers and…
Harmer John; An Unworldly Story
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Hugh Walpole
Hjalmar Johanson (novel, 1926) is a boyish unworldly Swedish body builder come to Walpole’s fictional cathedral town of Polchester. His name…
The Chinese Dragon
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Luther Newton Hayes
The subject of this little book [1923] is of general interest to people who are acquainted with things Chinese. The dragon has played a larg…
Religio Journalistici
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Christopher Morley
The great Canadian journalist and humorist ruminates and reflects upon his life and calling in this 1924 little gem. - Summary by david wale…
Still - William
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Richmal Crompton
More humorous adventures (1925) by the world’s most misunderstood English boy. - Summary by david wales
News From No Man's Land
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James Green
James Green (1864-1948) was a Methodist minister who was a chaplain to Australian troops in the Boer War and in the Australian Imperial Forc…
The Irish Nuns at Ypres: An Episode of the War
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Dame M. Columban
“…I have charged Dame M. Columban to give a detailed account of all that has befallen the Community, since the coming of the Germans to Ypre…
Dog: A Selection of Stories
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Various
The title says it all: stories about dogs. - Summary by david wales
Civil War Women, North And South
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Various
This recording comprises two narratives. One is by Cora Mitchel who in 1861 was a girl in her mid-teens. Her Unionist family escaped the C…
Hugh Walpole: Selected Short Stories
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Hugh Walpole
Eleven short stories from The Windsor Magazine in the 1920s, Best British Short Stories of 1922, and Best British Short Stories of 1923. - S…
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. …
The Christmas Bishop
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Winifred M. Kirkland
This 1913 story is far more than a Christmas tale. It is a story about spiritual wisdom; the seeking of wisdom, the getting of wisdom, even…
A Christmas Miscellany 2022
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Various
Seven stories, chapters, essays, or poetry about Christmas or around Christmas. - Summary by david wales
Post Mortem: Essays, Historical And Medical
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Charles MacLaurin and Charles Maclaurin
This 1922 collection of extensive essays comprises well written biographies of a few famous folk. The life narratives include analyses of me…
The Easter Mystery Of Jesus Christ; A Miscellany Of Readings, Poems, And Hymn T…
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Various
The story of Jesus Christ is a treasure of Western civilization. Understanding that life and story is necessary for a proper understanding …
My Religion
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Arnold Bennett, J. D. Beresford, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Arthur Jones, Compton Mackenzie, E. Phillips Oppenheim, H. De Vere Stacpoole, Hugh Walpole, Rebecca West and Israel Zangwill
This 1926 collection of sixteen essays on religion by well-known people (mostly authors) in the early 20th century brings together articles …
William The Conqueror
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Richmal Crompton
William is at it again. The world’s most chaos-creating and confident eleven year old boy. Thirteen more humorous stories in this 1926 col…
Jeremy At Crale; His Friends, His Ambitions And His One Great Enemy
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Hugh Walpole
This 1927 work is the third and final in Walpole’s Jeremy series. (The others are Jeremy and Jeremy And Hamlet.) Jeremy’s home is in Polches…
Tall Tales Of Cape Cod
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Marillis Bittinger
“The title of this volume is perhaps misleading. Tall Tales of Cape Cod they are, yes, but in a broader sense that are the feel and the basi…
Winnowed Wisdom
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Stephen Leacock
This 1926 volume comprises thirty-five essays by the masterful Canadian humorist. - Summary by david wales
Sir Christopher Wren: Scientist, Scholar and Architect
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Lawrence Weaver
This 1923 monograph on the life and work of Sir Christopher Wren was written by Lawrence Weaver, an English architectural writer and editor.…
Combat Lessons Number 1: Rank And File In Combat: What They're Doing, How They …
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United States Army War College
This 1942 Army manual, published during the course of World War II, consists of quotations from soldiers in the field concerning their exper…
A London Mosaic
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Walter Lionel George
An idiosyncratic view of various aspects of London, England, published in 1921. Walter Lionel George (1882 – 1926) was an English writer, c…
Life In California, Excerpted From 'Roughing It' By Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
This recording is chapters 56 through 61 plus 78 of the 1879 edition of 'Roughing It' by Mark Twain (1835-1910). The chapters contain in Tw…
The Children's Book Of Christmas
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J. C. Dier
This 1911 collection is of snippets from many different sources and genres: myths, songs. poems, hymns, book sections, etc. The sources are…
How We Elected Lincoln; Personal Recollections of Lincoln and Men of His Time
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Abram J. Dittenhoefer
Dittenhoefer as a young man campaigned for Lincoln in 1860 and was an elector for Lincoln in the presidential election of 1864. Born in Cha…
Lincoln's Yarns and Stories
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Alexander K. Mcclure
“A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes that made Abraham Lincoln Famous as America’s Greatest Story Teller With Introductio…
The British Soldier: His Courage And Humour
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Edward John Hardy
The Reverend Edward John Hardy, ordained in the Church Of Ireland, was a chaplain in the British army for thirty one years. His 1915 collec…
Post Mortems Two: Mere Mortals: Medico-Historical Essays
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Charles Maclaurin
This 1925 collection of extensive essays (a second book following the first of similar title) comprises well written biographies of a few fa…
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
King Edward I of England: Three Essays
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Thomas Frederick Tout
Edward I (1239 – 1307), was King of England from 1272 to 1307. The eldest son of Henry III, Edward was involved from an early age in the p…
Strange Stories Of The Civil War
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Various
Here are twelve narratives of some events in the American Civil War, most told by a participant or contemporary observer. - Summary by David…
On Reading The Bible
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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
These are three lectures (numbers 8, 9, 10) excerpted from the author’s 1920 book On The Art Of Reading. The lectures were delivered to stu…
Thomas Carlyle
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G. K. Chesterton
A short biography (1902) of a famous writer (Carlyle) by another famous writer (Chesterton). The first half exhibits Chesterton’s sly wit a…
Robert Louis Stevenson
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G. K. Chesterton
This short early twentieth century biography of Robert Louis Stevenson by polymath Chesterton and journalist Nicoll is also sometimes entitl…
Over The Rocky Mountains To Alaska
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Charles Warren Stoddard
This 1899 travelogue is by one of the era’s most popular travel writers. A peek in how travel used to be. - Summary by David Wales
Reading: An Essay
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Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales