David Wales
Benjamin Britten: Source Stories of Twelve Operas
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Britten's operas are firmly established in the international repertoire: according to Operabase, they are performed worldwide more than thos…
A Christmas Miscellany 2017
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A selection of short works about Christmas. (Summary by david wales)
Full Speed Ahead: Tales From The Log Of A Correspondent
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Henry Beston
“These tales are memories of several months spent as a special correspondent attached to the forces of the American Navy on foreign service……
Two American Slavery Documents
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James Mars
This recording contains two original documents. 1) Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut, by James Mars (1869). James …
Vindication Of The Rights Of Men, In A Letter To The Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned By His Reflections On The Revolution In France
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism. It was published in response to …
The Wooden Horse
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Hugh Walpole
Walpole’s first novel (1909), The Wooden Horse is the story of the Trojans, a family which accepted tranquilly the belief that they were the…
Joseph Haydn; Servant And Master
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Herbert Francis Peyser
Haydn, barring a few hardships in his youth, lived an extraordinarily fortunate life and had abundant reason for the optimism which marked e…
Reminiscences Of A Workhouse Medical Officer
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Joseph Rogers
Joseph Rogers (1821-1889) was an English physician, medical officer, and health care reformer in London. The system of poor-law dispensarie…
William The Conqueror
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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…
An Apache Campaign In The Sierra Madre
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John Gregory Bourke
An account of the expedition [of the U.S. Army] in pursuit of the hostile Chiricahua Apaches in the spring of 1883. (Book subtitle) Bourke w…
The Causes Of The American Civil War
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John Lothrop Motley
John Lothrop Motley (1814 – 1877) was an American author and popular diplomat, who helped to prevent European intervention on the side of th…
A Christmas Miscellany
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A selection of eight short works, chapters, or poems about Christmas. - Summary by david wales
The Backwash Of War: The Human Wreckage Of The Battlefield As Witnessed By An American Hospital Nurse
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Ellen Newbold La Motte
Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873–1961) was an American nurse, journalist and author. … and in 1915 volunteered as one of the first American war …
The Human Boy Again
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Eden Phillpotts
Published in 1908, this is a further collection of twelve humorous short stories about English school boys. The author wrote two other book…
A Picture Book Of Merry Tales
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William James McGlothlin
Forty European folk tales. Caveats: 1. Some of these stories are not suitable for young children. 2. In two stories (10 and 25) appear the n…
Cecilia de Noël
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Mary Elizabeth Hawker
Cecilia de Noël is an original and cleverly told ghost story, published in 1891. The story is told, Rashomon-like, from six different v…
Travel Stories Retold From St. Nicholas
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St. Nicholas was a popular magazine aimed at young folks in the late nineteenth – early twentieth century. Its articles were usually well-w…
Bransford Of Rainbow Range
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Eugene Manlove Rhodes
A genuine cowboy who speaks a bit of Greek? Ditto a bit of The Litany? And more than a little verse, including (would you believe?) Alice In…
The Crimson Gardenia And Other Tales Of Adventure
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Rex Beach
Published in 1916, this book collects eleven stories originally published in several different magazines. Beach’s adventure stories were im…
Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi
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William C. Everhart
In the American Civil War, the Vicksburg campaign (December 1862-July 1863) was a pivotal victory for the Union under the generalship of Uly…