David Wales

Charles Dickens started and edited a magazine called All The Year Round, a weekly collection of articles on a wide variety of topics. An anonymous correspondent in 1868-69 sent in these seven articles about life in the far West of the United States. -...

Eleven yule-tide stories by a popular writer of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. - (Summary by david wales) Author - Willis Boyd Allen. Narrator - David Wales. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

Gaylord DuBois wrote juvenile literature for decades. This is a boys' adventure story about serving in the American World War II flying corps. - Summary by david wales Author - Gaylord Dubois. Narrator - David Wales. Published Date - Thursday, 19...

English village life and villagers in the east of England in the late 1700’s and early 1800s—is the subject of The Borough. George Crabbe was an English poet, surgeon, and clergyman. He is best known for his early use of the realistic narrative form...

Alfred Louis Kroeber (1876-1960) was an American cultural anthropologist who founded the anthropology department at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as directing that campus’ Museum Of Anthropology from 1909 through 1947. Kroeber and...

Here we meet all sorts of characters and situations in California’s early history: gunmen, outlaws, lynch mobs, raging storms, mining camps, lost clergymen, freed slaves, Northern sympathizers, Southern sympathizers, soldiers…. Oscar Penn Fitzgerald...

Pirate stories galore! Pirate life was not always what it seemed from the outside. - Summary by david wales Author - John Stevens Cabot Abbott. Narrator - David Wales. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

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 church but drawn instead to writing. Among those who encouraged him were the authors Henry James and Arnold...

Cecilia de Noël is an original and cleverly told ghost story, published in 1891. The story is told, Rashomon-like, from six different viewpoints. - Summary by Wikipedia and David Wales Author - Mary Elizabeth Hawker. Narrator - David Wales. Published...

This book is part of the author’s "Nature Books For Children" series (three books), which is probably the best indication of its target audience and subject matter. The book is fun and charming, even for adults. Arthur Michell Ransome was an English...

This book is part of the author’s "Nature Books For Children" series (three books), which is probably the best indication of its target audience and subject matter. The book is fun and charming, even for adults. Arthur Michell Ransome was an English...

Introducing "Christmas and Thanksgiving": A Timeless Collection of Heartwarming TalesStep into the enchanting world of the early 20th century with "Christmas and Thanksgiving," a captivating digital audiobook collection that transports you to the...

Twenty stories originally published in the Christmas editions of the magazines “Household Words” and “All The Year Round”. Some of the stories have little holiday sentiment and exhibit much of the indignation Dickens felt at the social and economic...

Fifteen short stories by Antoinette Ogden from French and Spanish writers of many times. - Summary by david wales Author - Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza. Narrator - David Wales. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

George Oliver Onions (1873 – 1961) was a British writer of story collections and over 40 novels…. Onions wrote detective fiction, social comedy, historical fiction and romance novels. This social comedy of late Victorian England is among his first...

Minos was such a lovely planet. Not a thing seemed wrong with it. Excepting the food, perhaps. And a disease that wasn't really. Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, October, 1950. Katherine Anne MacLean (born January 22, 1925) is an...

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of romantic philosophy. Many consider him to be the last of the great polymaths. After his death in 1859, the scientific world...

Criminal Stories by Charles KingstonStory List:1) Martha Kupfer, Swindler2) Madame Guerin, Matrimonial Agent3) The Murder Of Madame Houet4) The Bootmaker's Royal Wooing5) James Greenacre Duration - 5h 23m. Author - Charles Kingston. Narrator - David...

Prepare to be spellbound as O'Donnell weaves gripping tales of spectral hounds that will both warm your heart and send shivers down your spine. From ancient folklore to chilling modern encounters, "Dog Ghosts" explores the fascinating realm of canine...

Short Stories by Fergus Hume (1859 – 1932), a prolific English novelist. - Summary by wikipedia Author - Fergus Hume. Narrator - David Wales. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

Twenty-three stories of the history of early Oregon plus an appendix: A Brief Summary Of The History Of The Old Oregon Country From Original Sources. OLD OREGON was a mighty sweep of country, and a most romantic one. From the northern border of...

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 prison train taking prisoners to the infamous Andersonville prison. The short book points up Hasson’s ingenuity in...

I have written this Gossip not only for the edification of those to whom a portion, more or less, may be news, but for those who, like myself, have lived through the whole of Queen Victoria's reign, to whom the remembrance of things, almost forgotten,...

Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men is a short story with moral implications. Beerbohm's tale is a lighter, more humorous version of Oscar Wilde's...