David Wales
Sir Christopher Wren: Scientist, Scholar and Architect
This 1923 monograph on the life and work of Sir Christopher Wren was written by Lawrence Weaver, an English architectural writer and editor.…
Owen Wingrave
Owen Wingrave explores the conflict between personal conviction and familial duty through the story of a young man from a prestigious milita…
Idle Hours In A Library
“[these essays on Shakespeare, Pepys, Restoration novels, and bohemianism]—the results of many hours of quiet but rather aimless browsing am…
Who Burnt Columbia?
This LibriVox reading consists of selections from depositions in a lawsuit brought after the end of the American Civil War by some businessm…
Portrait Of A Man With Red Hair; A Romantic Macabre
Is the father insane or merely sadistic, a man entombed in a spirit of malevolence? This 1925 novel by a perceptive observer explores the te…
That House I Bought; A Little Leaf From Life
This is a whimsical, entertaining, tongue in cheek narrative of the author’s purchase of a house, circa 1911. - Summary by david wales
Collaboration
It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870--Germany won--the French Second Republic collapsed--France embittered). A French po…
Use Of The Dead To The Living
In 1827 Thomas Southwood-Smith published The Use of the Dead to the Living, a pamphlet which argued that the current system of burial in the…
With The American Ambulance Field Service In France; Personal Letters Of A Driver At The Front
This 1915 publication collects letters written by a driver for the American ambulance service. The incidents they relate occurred before the…
Invention And Discovery: Curious Facts And Characteristic Sketches
"In this little volume are brought together a number of sketches and memoranda, illustrating the history of discovery, and the lives an…
A Christmas Miscellany 2021
Seven chapters involving Christmas from different books. Plus part 8 which is twelve verses about Christmas and part 9 which is four Christm…
Reading: An Essay
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
Sea Poems: An Idiosyncratic Selection
Sea Poems is a captivating anthology that brings together seventeen evocative poems celebrating the beauty, mystery, and power of the sea. E…
The Human Boy And The War
Published in 1916, this is the third collection of thirteen humorous short stories about English school boys in a boarding school in the fic…
Religio Journalistici
The great Canadian journalist and humorist ruminates and reflects upon his life and calling in this 1924 little gem. - Summary by david wale…
Old Hampshire Vignettes
Old Hampshire Vignettes invites listeners into the serene landscapes and rich experiences of the Hampshire Valley through the eyes of Mary E…
Benjamin Britten: Source Stories of Twelve Operas
Britten's operas are firmly established in the international repertoire: according to Operabase, they are performed worldwide more than thos…
Joseph Haydn; Servant And Master
Haydn, barring a few hardships in his youth, lived an extraordinarily fortunate life and had abundant reason for the optimism which marked e…
The Borough
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 …
The Hotel D'Angleterre And Other Stories
Five short stories by Lanoe Falconer which is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 - 1908). Her works, though f…