David Wales
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…
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…
Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee Being His Story Of The War (1861-1865)
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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 …
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…
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…
Combat Lessons Number 1: Rank And File In Combat: What They're Doing, How They Do It
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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…
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…
Two Diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February - May, 1865
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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…
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…
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
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 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 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 …
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
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…
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…
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. &…
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…
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)…
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…