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…
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…
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…
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…
Dog: A Selection of Stories
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Various
The title says it all: stories about dogs. - Summary by david wales
A Christmas Miscellany 2020
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Various
Nine stories, chapters, or essays about Christmas or around Christmas. - Summary by David Wales
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…
Two Essays On Military History, Strategy, and Tactics: Mountain Warfare (1909) And Naval Strategy (1917)
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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 …
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. …
Jeremy And Hamlet: A Chronicle Of Certain Incidents In The Lives Of A Boy, A Dog, And A Country Town
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Biographical Notice Of Nicolo Paganini With An Analysis Of His Compositions And A Sketch Of The History Of The Violin
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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…
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…
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…
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 …