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A Versailles Christmas-Tide

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Mary Stuart Boyd


The Boy has fallen ill with scarlet fever while at school in France. His parents rush to his side. A touching memoir. - Summary by david w…

Tales Of English Minsters: Canterbury Cathedral Kent and Saint Paul's London

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Elizabeth W. Grierson


These simple stories of two of England’s greatest cathedrals were originally written for youth (1910) but adults will also enjoy them. St. …

Hugh Walpole: Selected Short Stories

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Hugh Walpole


Eleven short stories from The Windsor Magazine in the 1920s, Best British Short Stories of 1922, and Best British Short Stories of 1923. - S…

The Log Of A Sea-Waif: Being Recollections Of The First Four Years Of My Sea Li…

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Frank Thomas Bullen


The brilliant author of "The Cruise of the Cachalot" and "Idylls of the Sea" presents in this new work (1899) the contin…

A Gringo In Mañana-Land

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Harry La Tourette Foster


Foster was a World War I veteran, world wanderer, journalist, embassy attaché, stoker on ships, miner, stowaway, bandit’s prisoner in…

Jeremy And Hamlet: A Chronicle Of Certain Incidents In The Lives Of A Boy, A Do…

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Hugh Walpole


Hamlet is Jeremy’s dog. This 1923 book is Hugh Walpole’s second volume in his Jeremy semi-autobiographical trilogy (Jeremy (1919 available a…

The Chinese Dragon

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Luther Newton Hayes


The subject of this little book [1923] is of general interest to people who are acquainted with things Chinese. The dragon has played a larg…

Saint Joan: Preface

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George Bernard Shaw


Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th-century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her…

Richard Strauss

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Herbert Francis Peyser


There was not much truly spectacular about the course of [Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bede…

Christmas Outside Of Eden

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Coningsby Dawson


A delightful Christmas fantasy told with inimitable charm and delicate humor. It is "the story the robins tell as they huddle beneath t…

Your United States: Impressions Of A First Visit

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Arnold Bennett


Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journal…

Walking-Stick Papers

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Robert Cortes Holliday


Robert Cortes Holliday (1880 – 1947) was an American writer and literary editor. Writer and friend, Christopher Morley, wrote of Holliday…

Two Essays On Military History, Strategy, and Tactics: Mountain Warfare (1909) …

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Wilkinson Dent Bird


One essay (1909) lays out tactics for mountain fighting, focused on British Army experience on the Indian frontier (Afghanistan), penned by …

One Hundred Years In Yosemite: The Story Of A Great Park And Its Friends

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Carl Parcher Russell


This recording of the 1931 (1947 second edition) book about Yosemite National Park comprises the narrative text about the Park from its disc…

Against Celsus Book 3

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Origen Of Alexandria


Against Celsus, preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD…

A Christmas Miscellany 2020

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Various


Nine stories, chapters, or essays about Christmas or around Christmas. - Summary by David Wales

Against Celsus Book 4

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Origen Of Alexandria


Against Celsus, preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD…

The Egregious English

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T. W. H. Crosland


This 1903 book is a tongue-in-cheek send-up of English people and subjects. Within the humor (or humour), the listener may be surprised by s…

The White Cowl

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James Lane Allen


A Trappist monastery in nineteenth century Kentucky. A young monk. A young woman in distress. Whither? One might want to compare this story …

The First Voyage of James Cook Volume 1

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James Cook


In May 1768, the Admiralty commissioned the 39-year old Cook to command a scientific voyage to the Pacific Ocean to observe and record the 1…

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