David Wales
The Human Boy Again
Published in 1908, this is a further collection of twelve humorous short stories about English school boys. The author wrote two other book…
Izaak Walton's Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker and George Herbert
The full title of Walton's book of short biographies is, Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C. Sir Henry…
Your United States: Impressions Of A First Visit
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…
Thomas Carlyle
A short biography (1902) of a famous writer (Carlyle) by another famous writer (Chesterton). The first half exhibits Chesterton’s sly wit a…
The Backwash Of War: The Human Wreckage Of The Battlefield As Witnessed By An American Hospital Nurse
Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873–1961) was an American nurse, journalist and author. … and in 1915 volunteered as one of the first American war …
The Pentecost of Calamity
Nonfiction. Appalled by the savagery of World War I, Owen Wister in 1915 published an attempt to move the United States out of neutrality in…
Full Speed Ahead: Tales From The Log Of A Correspondent
“These tales are memories of several months spent as a special correspondent attached to the forces of the American Navy on foreign service……
Two Essays On Military History, Strategy, and Tactics: Mountain Warfare (1909) And Naval Strategy (1917)
One essay (1909) lays out tactics for mountain fighting, focused on British Army experience on the Indian frontier (Afghanistan), penned by …
California History -- Two Pieces
Alfred Louis Kroeber (1876-1960) was an American cultural anthropologist who founded the anthropology department at the University of Calif…
A Gringo In Mañana-Land
Foster was a World War I veteran, world wanderer, journalist, embassy attaché, stoker on ships, miner, stowaway, bandit’s prisoner in…
Causes Of The American Civil War: Secession Statements Of Five Confederate States (South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi)
Some of the states who rebelled against the Federal Government in the American Civil War issued statements by nascent governing bodies expla…
Kai Lung's Golden Hours
Kai Lung’s Golden Hours is a frame story or frame novel, that is, the narrative provides a frame for different stories. Think One Thousand A…
Myths and Legends of Alaska (version 2)
The myths in this 1911 volume are authentic. The original collections were made by government ethnologists. Only the quaintest and purest o…
The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men
Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tir…
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…
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 …
Just Sweethearts; A Christmas Love Story
“Clearly he was one of those rare beings who can radiate energy standing still and convey the impression of impetuous force without motion, …
Campaign For Petersburg
In the American Civil War the Union victory in the ten-month campaign for the city of Petersburg, Virginia (June 1864-March 1865), led direc…
The Raven and The Philosophy Of Composition
Poe’s famous narrative poem and the author’s reflections on its composition. (David Wales)
A Christmas Miscellany 2022
Seven stories, chapters, essays, or poetry about Christmas or around Christmas. - Summary by david wales