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The Giant Crab And Other Tales From Old India

Read by David Wales


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 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…

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…

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…

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)

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…

Indian Frontier Policy, an Historical Sketch

Read by David Barnes


General Sir John Miller Adye


"The subject of our policy on the North-West frontier of India is one of great importance, as affecting the general welfare of our East…

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 Christmas Miscellany 2018

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Various


Sixteen Christmas stories or essays. (David Wales)

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…

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 …

Visions

Read by David Leeson


Coulson Kernahan


Deeper questions of life and death, and of God’s relationship to man, are explored in this collection of “dreams” by a noted English novelis…

On Grace And Free Will

Read by David Ronald


Saint Augustine of Hippo


There are some persons who suppose that the freedom of the will is denied whenever God's grace is maintained, and who on their side defend t…

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…

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 …

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…

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 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…

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…

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

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