David Wales
The Dogs Of Boytown
This collection of stories about dogs and the people they own was published in 1918. The story proceeds leisurely with much information abou…
Two Essays On Military History, Strategy, and Tactics: Mountain Warfare (1909) And Naval Strategy (1917)
One essay (1909) lays out tactics for mountain fighting, focused on British Army experience on the Indian frontier (Afghanistan), penned by …
Dog: A Selection of Stories
The title says it all: stories about dogs. - Summary by david wales
Your United States: Impressions Of A First Visit
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…
A Gringo In Mañana-Land
Foster was a World War I veteran, world wanderer, journalist, embassy attaché, stoker on ships, miner, stowaway, bandit’s prisoner in…
Tales Of English Minsters: Canterbury Cathedral Kent and Saint Paul's London
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
Hamlet is Jeremy’s dog. This 1923 book is Hugh Walpole’s second volume in his Jeremy semi-autobiographical trilogy (Jeremy (1919 available a…
A Christmas Miscellany 2020
Nine stories, chapters, or essays about Christmas or around Christmas. - Summary by David Wales
Richard Strauss
There was not much truly spectacular about the course of [Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bede…
Strange Stories Of The Civil War
Here are twelve narratives of some events in the American Civil War, most told by a participant or contemporary observer. - Summary by David…
Civil War Women, North And South
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…
Christmas Outside Of Eden
A delightful Christmas fantasy told with inimitable charm and delicate humor. It is "the story the robins tell as they huddle beneath t…
The Garden Of Folly
A 1924 collection of essays by the celebrated Canadian humorist, popular in the first half of the twentieth century throughout the English s…
The Egregious English
This 1903 book is a tongue-in-cheek send-up of English people and subjects. Within the humor (or humour), the listener may be surprised by s…
Biographical Notice Of Nicolo Paganini With An Analysis Of His Compositions And A Sketch Of The History Of The Violin
Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (1782 – 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was the most celebra…
Idylls Of The Sea And Other Marine Sketches
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
A Trappist monastery in nineteenth century Kentucky. A young monk. A young woman in distress. Whither? One might want to compare this story …
The Human Boy And The War
Published in 1916, this is the third collection of thirteen humorous short stories about English school boys in a boarding school in the fic…
Letters From America
"[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…
Titan Of Chasms: The Grand Canyon Of Arizona
This is a 1906 collection of three essays by men famously associated with The Grand Canyon: Charles A. Higgins, John Wesley Powell, and Cha…