David Wales
The Talking Thrush And Other Tales From India
This is the second collection by this author of charming folk tales from India. The first collection is entitled The Giant Crab (Librivox au…
Vindication Of The Rights Of Men, In A Letter To The Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned By His Reflections On The Revolution In France
Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism. It was published in response to …
Henry James At Work
Bosanquet (1880-1961) was secretary or amanuensis to James from 1907 to his death in 1916. She wrote this essay (1924) eight years after hi…
Reminiscences Of A Workhouse Medical Officer
Joseph Rogers (1821-1889) was an English physician, medical officer, and health care reformer in London. The system of poor-law dispensarie…
Bransford Of Rainbow Range
A genuine cowboy who speaks a bit of Greek? Ditto a bit of The Litany? And more than a little verse, including (would you believe?) Alice In…
Gulliver The Great And Other Dog Stories
This 1916 book is a collection of sixteen of the author's dog stories previously published in magazines. ( David Wales)
From Slave Cabin To Pulpit; and Sketches Of Slave Life
Peter Randolph was born a slave in 1825 (?), was freed before the American Civil War, and became a clergyman in the Baptist tradition, dying…
The Medicine-Men Of The Apache
“Herewith I have the honor to submit a paper upon the paraphernalia of the medicine-men of the Apache and other tribes. Analogues have been …
Dog Ghosts
Dog Ghosts explores the intriguing realm of canine apparitions, delving into the stories and experiences of those who have encountered the s…
Never: A Handbook For The Uninitiated And Inexperienced Aspirants To Refined Society's Giddy Heights And Glittering Attainments
An 1883 tongue-in-cheek spoof of manners and mannerisms of “society”. ‘the “Open Sesame” to that jealously-guarded realm,—good society,—in …
The Characters Of Theophrastus
Theophrastus ( c. 371 – c. 287 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic School. He wrote on many to…
Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes
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…
A Christmas Miscellany 2020
Nine stories, chapters, or essays about Christmas or around Christmas. - Summary by David Wales
Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest
"...The preparation of a volume of the quainter, purer myths, suitable for general reading, authentic, and with illustrations of the co…
The Human Boy
This collection of eleven short stories, both humorous and touching, about English school boys was published in 1900. The book was quite pop…
A Christmas Miscellany 2017
A selection of short works about Christmas. (Summary by david wales)
Wongo And The Wise Old Crow
Stories of an Indian boy and his friends told by a children’s author of yesteryear, published 1923. - Summary by david wales
Life At The Zoo: Notes And Traditions Of The Regent's Park Gardens
London Zoo is the world's oldest scientific zoo. Opening in 1828, it was originally intended to be used as a collection for the scientific…
Bashan And I
Simple and unpretentious as a statement by Francis d’Assisi, yet full of a gentle modern sophistication and humour, this little work will br…
In The Footprints Of The Padres
The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This…