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A Dancing Bear

Read by David Free


David Free


What if getting the girl meant becoming a terrorist wet boy? On an unnamed university campus late in the 20th century, a young man named Fen…

The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men

Read by David Wales


Max Beerbohm


Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tir…

The Cathedral

Read by David Wales


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…

Selected Poems of John Clare, Volume 1

Read by David Barnes


John Clare


John Clare (1793 - 1864) was a farm labourer in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, who became arguably England’s greatest nature po…

A Christmas Miscellany 2019

Read by David Wales


Various


Nine stories about Christmas or around Christmastime. - Summary by david wales

Escape From The Confederacy

Read by David Wales


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…

Visits To The Dead In The Catacombs Of Rome

Read by David Wales


George Washington Greene


This essay of a cultured observer, for many years United States consul in Rome, appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 10, issue 59,…

Kaffir, Kangaroo, Klondike; Tales Of The Gold Fields

Read by David Wales


Thaddeus William Henry Leavitt


Seven short stories. - Summary by david wales

Selection from The Temple

Read by David Barnes


George Herbert


George Herbert (April 3, 1593 – March 1, 1633) was a Welsh poet, orator and a priest. Throughout his life he wrote religious poems character…

Paul the Dauntless

Read by David Leeson


Basil Joseph Mathews


“We shall in this book try to go in the footsteps of Paul. It will not be all easy traveling for any of us, to journey with this daring expl…

Modern Essays

Read by David Wales


Christopher Morley


Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…

Christmas Eve At Swamp's End

Read by David Wales


Norman Duncan


Four selected chapters from The Measure Of A Man; A Tale of the Big Woods, by Norman Duncan. What could be more Christmasy than: Babies, esp…

A Fleet In Being; Notes Of Two Trips With The Channel Squadron

Read by David Wales


Rudyard Kipling


[Kipling] became involved in the debate over the British response to the rise in German naval power known as the Tirpitz Plan to build a fle…

Through Glacier Park; Seeing America First With Howard Eaton (version 2)

Read by David Wales


Mary Roberts Rinehart


This is the first of two travelogues published by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958). Both deal with Glacier National Park. (The other is e…

The Tower Of London

Read by David Wales


Arthur Poyser


Description. History. “… those who read this book and have no opportunity of visiting the Tower expect that the characters in the moving d…

The Light Invisible

Read by David Wales


Robert Hugh Benson


Fifteen short ghost stories by the Anglican then Roman Catholic priest, Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914). The form of the book is of an old En…

In Exile and Other Stories

Read by David Wales


Mary Hallock Foote


Six short stories by Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories…

A Mirror Of Shalott

Read by David Wales


Robert Hugh Benson


Fourteen stories of the strange by the Anglican then Roman Catholic priest, Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914). The form of the book is of stori…

Theodore Roosevelt; An Address Delivered Before The Congress Of The United Stat…

Read by David Wales


Henry Cabot Lodge


A biographical encomium delivered on the occasion of Roosevelt's death. Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. (1858 – 1919) was an Amer…

The Mirror Of Kong Ho

Read by David Wales


Ernest Bramah


This 1905 tongue-in-cheek book is ostensibly the letters of a dutiful son to his Chinese father describing his encounter with and experience…

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