David Wales
Reminiscences Of A Workhouse Medical Officer
Joseph Rogers (1821-1889) was an English physician, medical officer, and health care reformer in London. The system of poor-law dispensarie…
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919
Fifteen short stories of 1919, winners of a rigorous competition. The extensive Introduction is omitted from this recording. ( david wales)
Padre Ignacio, Or The Song Of Temptation
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…
The Measure Of A Man; A Tale Of The Big Woods
The Measure Of A Man invites listeners into the rugged world of lumberjacks, where the strength of character is as vital as physical prowess…
The Medicine-Men Of The Apache
“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 …
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel
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…
A Mirror Of Shalott
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…
Tenting To-Night; A Chronicle Of Sport And Adventure In Glacier Park And The Cascade Mountains
Tenting To-Night invites listeners to join Mary Roberts Rinehart on an evocative journey through the breathtaking landscapes of Glacier Nati…
The Raven and The Philosophy Of Composition
Poe’s famous narrative poem and the author’s reflections on its composition. (David Wales)
The Private Soldier Under Washington
Much was been written about the American Revolution, but our knowledge of the private solders of the patriot army is confined chiefly to Was…
Around The Yule Log
Around The Yule Log invites listeners to gather around the warmth of the holiday spirit with a collection of eleven enchanting stories by Wi…
The Cathedral
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (1884 – 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the c…
The Boy Scout And Other Stories For Boys
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, as a friend and fellow author has written of him, was “youth incarnate,” and there is probably nothing that he wrote …
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…
The Log Of A Sea-Waif: Being Recollections Of The First Four Years Of My Sea Life
The brilliant author of "The Cruise of the Cachalot" and "Idylls of the Sea" presents in this new work (1899) the contin…
Hugh Walpole: Selected Short Stories
Eleven short stories from The Windsor Magazine in the 1920s, Best British Short Stories of 1922, and Best British Short Stories of 1923. - S…
Lectures On Painting Delivered To The Students Of The Royal Academy
This 1883 book contains chapters on ancient costumes, Byzantine and Romanesque art, David and his school, modern schools of Europe, drawing,…
The Pentecost of Calamity
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 Irish Nuns at Ypres: An Episode of the War
“…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…
Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes
It is a loss to American literature that so much of the legendary history of these Indian tribes has gone, beyond hope of recovery. Exquisit…