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Thomas Carlyle

Read by David Wales


G. K. Chesterton


A short biography (1902) of a famous writer (Carlyle) by another famous writer (Chesterton). The first half exhibits Chesterton’s sly wit a…

A Christmas Miscellany 2023

Read by David Wales


Various


Eleven short works or book chapters about Christmas or around that time period. - Summary by David Wales

Collaboration

Read by David Wales


Henry James


It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870--Germany won--the French Second Republic collapsed--France embittered). A French po…

Centre for the Study of the Book


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

A Soldier's Diary

Read by David Wales


Ralph Scott


This 1923 memoir of a World War I soldier (Royal Engineer and hand-to-hand combatant) is a well written much respected first-hand account of…

Dog Ghosts

Read by David Wales


Elliott O'Donnell


Stories in which ghosts of dogs figure. This is chapter 2, Apparitions Of Dogs, of the book Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Here…

Just David

Read by Mary Anderson


Eleanor H. Porter


David and his father set out from their idyllic mountain home to go to meet family, but enroute, David's father, who is sick dies, and David…

A Christmas Miscellany 2022

Read by David Wales


Various


Seven stories, chapters, essays, or poetry about Christmas or around Christmas. - Summary by david wales

Thrilling Adventures By Land And Sea

Read by David Wales


James O. Brayman


There is in the adventures of the daring and heroic, something that interests all. There is a charm about them which, while it partakes of t…

Prophets, Priests, And Kings

Read by David Wales


Alfred George Gardiner


These biographical essays of (mostly) British subjects were written in 1907-1908 for The Daily News newspaper and reflect their subjects as …

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919

Read by David Wales


Various


Fifteen short stories of 1919, winners of a rigorous competition. The extensive Introduction is omitted from this recording. ( david wales)

Red Men And White

Read by David Wales


Owen Wister


These eight stories are made from our Western Frontier as it was in a past as near as yesterday and almost as by-gone as the Revolution; so …

The Good Soldier; A Selection Of Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918

Read by David Wales


N. P. Dawson


“Here are boys, all sorts of boys: French, English, Italian, American… These are soldiers’ letters written home. But reading, one finds t…

William The Conqueror

Read by David Wales


Richmal Crompton


William is at it again. The world’s most chaos-creating and confident eleven year old boy. Thirteen more humorous stories in this 1926 col…

Reid's Critique of Hume

Read by Dan Robinson


Dan Robinson


University of Oxford Podcasts

Owen Wingrave

Read by David Wales


Henry James


A young man of good family with a long distinguished military tradition indicates that he will not follow his ancestors' path into the army.…

David's Mighty Men


Joel Frederick


A look at David's Mighty Men

Juju

Read by David Wales


Murray Leinster


A 1919 pulp-press tale of deepest darkest Africa. - Summary by david wales

Kidnapped

Read by Mark F. Smith


Robert Louis Stevenson


David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in t…

Rejected Of Men; A Story Of Today

Read by David Wales


Howard Pyle


This is a setting of the story of Jesus as if it had occurred during early twentieth century America. The narrator's point of view is that o…

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