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Schubert And His Works
Read by David Wales
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…
Tales Of King Arthur And The Round Table
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Andrew Lang
The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history o…
A Shepherd's Life; Impressions Of The South Wiltshire Downs
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William Henry Hudson
Hudson wrote this classic work in 1910; it is admiringly mentioned by many other writers. It focuses on the memories of a head shepherd, Ca…
Myths And Legends Of The Pacific Northwest Especially Of Washington And Oregon
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Katharine Berry Judson
The basis on which these myths were selected necessarily excluded those which showed traces of the white man's religion or of the red man's …
The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men
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Max Beerbohm
Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tir…
That House I Bought; A Little Leaf From Life
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Henry Edward Warner
This is a whimsical, entertaining, tongue in cheek narrative of the author’s purchase of a house, circa 1911. - Summary by david wales
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Herbert Francis Peyser
Mozart’s earthly career was so poignantly short yet so filled with incalculable achievement that the author of this booklet finds himself co…
Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From H…
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William Tecumseh Sherman
This librivox recording comprises part of chapter 22 and all of chapter 23 (The March To The Sea – From Atlanta To Savannah – November And D…
Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs
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William Tecumseh Sherman
This LibriVox recording comprises three chapters from American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. The chapters deal with…
Sherman’s Military Lessons Of The American Civil War, From His Memoirs
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William Tecumseh Sherman
This LibriVox recording comprises chapter 25 (Conclusion – Military Lessons Of The War) of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memo…
Joseph Conrad
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
This is a literary biography of Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) who is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English. He was granted Brit…
The Cathedral
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Hugh Walpole
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (1884 – 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the c…
Christmas Stories From 'Household Words' And 'All The Year Round'
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Charles Dickens
Twenty stories originally published in the Christmas editions of the magazines “Household Words” and “All The Year Round”. Some of the stori…
Escape From The Confederacy
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Benjamin F. Hasson
Benjamin F Hasson was a Union officer in the Civil War of the United States. After being captured by the Confederacy, he escaped from a pris…
Myths And Legends Of British North America
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Katharine Berry Judson
[The Native American] story tellers of the camp related, with dramatic gestures, stories of the Days of the Grandfathers, in the beginning o…
Jeremy
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Hugh Walpole
With affectionate humor, Mr. Walpole tells the story of Jeremy and his two sisters, Helen and Mary Cole, who grow up in Polchester, a quiet …
Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes
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Katharine Berry Judson
It is a loss to American literature that so much of the legendary history of these Indian tribes has gone, beyond hope of recovery. Exquisit…
California Sketches New And Old
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Oscar Penn Fitzgerald
Here we meet all sorts of characters and situations in California’s early history: gunmen, outlaws, lynch mobs, raging storms, mining camps,…
The Romance Of Modern Sieges; Describing The Personal Adventures, Resource And …
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Edward Gilliat
Lively narratives of some of the great siege battles of war. The book was written before World War I, in 1908. Some of the narratives contai…
Captain William Kidd And Others Of The Buccaneers
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John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Pirate stories galore! Pirate life was not always what it seemed from the outside. - Summary by david wales