David Wales
Still - William
More humorous adventures (1925) by the world’s most misunderstood English boy. - Summary by david wales
The Alhambra: A Series Of Tales And Sketches Of The Moors And Spaniards
This is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving. Irving lived at the Alhambra Palace while writing some of…
William -- The Fourth
The world’s most confident, most chaos-creating eleven year old boy is at it again in these fourteen glorious and funny 1924 short stories. …
Wilderness; A Journal Of Quiet Adventure In Alaska
The illustrator and author Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)wrote and illustrated this description of a trip to Alaska with his eldest son. Though a…
In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories
In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories presents a collection of thirteen engaging short stories by Robert Barr, a notable figure in late 19th-…
Christmas With Lucy Maud Montgomery: A Selection Of Stories
This work is a selection of Christmas stories (or sometimes chapters) of Lucy Maud Montgomery from different sources and different times. Th…
Day And Night Stories
Day And Night Stories is a collection of fifteen captivating short stories by Algernon Blackwood, a master of supernatural fiction. Known fo…
Inventions Of The Great War
“… this war was not one of mere destruction. It set men to thinking as they had never thought before. It intensified their inventive faculti…
The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel
Inspector Hanaud is a member of the French Sûreté. He is said to have been the model for Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, as w…
The Case Of The Registered Letter
In The Case Of The Registered Letter, a mysterious murder unfolds when a man is discovered shot dead, and the evidence seemingly points to a…
A Journey in Search of Christmas
Cowboy Lin McLean rides into frontier Cheyenne, Wyoming, at Christmastime and learns a powerful meaning of Christmas. Author Owen Wister is …
Life's Little Ironies; A Set Of Tales With Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled A Few Crusted Characters
Life's Little Ironies is a collection of eighteen short stories by renowned author Thomas Hardy, exploring the complexities of human nature …
Lanagan Amateur Detective
This is a 1913 collection of ten short detective stories by a not well known writer. Jack Lanagan is a police reporter for a daily newspaper…
Remarkable Rogues: The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America
Remarkable Rogues offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of twenty individuals whose choices and actions defy conventional morality. Ea…
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
The Best British Short Stories is a curated collection featuring twenty-four short stories from a diverse array of British authors, both ren…
Round The Fire Stories
In the present [1908] collection those [stories] have been brought together which are concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible—suc…
William The Conqueror
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…
Campaigning With Grant
In the last year of the American Civil War, Horace Porter served as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant, then commander of all the armi…
The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories
The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories showcases the rich tapestry of the American West through a collection of eight short stories by Owen Wi…
Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park
James Willard Schultz, or Apikuni, (1859 – 1947) was a noted author, explorer, Glacier National Park guide, fur trader and historian of the …