This is the audio version of YouTube channel "David Reads Stories", in which David Johns reads aloud out-of-copyright, public domain stories.
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"A Visit to Santa Claus Land" by Georgene Faulkner; a story, read aloud
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20 Apr 2022
The Nutcrackers of Nutcracker Lodge
"The Nutcrackers of Nutcracker Lodge" by Harriet Beecher Stowe (adapted). See https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51734/51734-h/51734-h.htm#Page_234
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19 Jan 2022
The Three Golden Apples
The Three Golden Apples by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Taken from "THE TOPAZ STORY BOOK", see https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51734
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20 Dec 2021
The Christmas Masquerade
A story reading of "The Christmas Masquerade" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
See https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5061/pg5061-images.html#link2H_4_0004
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9 Nov 2021
Winter's Herald
"Winter's Herald" by Jane Andrews, From The Topaz Story Book on the Gutenberg Project.
See https://www.gutenberg.org/
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18 May 2021
The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed
The creepy tale of a man threatened with death when he gambles and gets drunk in Paris. Story by Wilkie Collins, from the Gutenberg Project; see https://www.gutenberg.org/
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21 Feb 2021
"Our Square and the People In It" (Part 4)
With huge apologies for the atrocious (but mercifully brief) attempt at a Scottish accent - I kept wanting to say "the dilithium warp crystals'll nae take it, Cap'n"! - this is the fourth and final excerpt from the story "Our Square and the People in it" by Samuel Hopkins Adams, originally published 1917.
Story downloaded from Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44328
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14 Feb 2021
"Our Square and the People In It" (Part 3)
This is part 3 of 4 of the story "Our Square and the People in it" by Samuel Hopkins Adams, originally published 1917.
Story downloaded from Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44328
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8 Feb 2021
"Our Square and the People In It" (Part 2)
This is part 2 of 4 of the story "Our Square and the People in it" by Samuel Hopkins Adams, originally published 1917.
Story downloaded from Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44328
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1 Feb 2021
"Our Square and the People in it" by Samuel Hopkins Adams
This is part 1 of 4 of the story "Our Square and the People in it" by Samuel Hopkins Adams, originally published 1917.
Story downloaded from Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44328
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31 Dec 2020
"The New Year's Bargain" by Susan Coolidge
First published in 1871, this is Chapter 1 of "The New Year's Bargain" by Susan Coolidge.
Text from Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org
Story is at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58762
Viewers kindly note the text is as written in 1871, using language of that era.
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30 Dec 2020
Little Girl's Christmas
Reading "Little Girl's Christmas" by Winnifred E. Lincoln, a copyright-free public domain story.
Story found at Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/ (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&v=mzINxzViTb8&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gutenberg.org%2Febooks%2F&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbHdLQjUzWUxRb2dZX1Bsczg2NDJMbzllTTBRQXxBQ3Jtc0ttZXVJS1dyNGhWREhQRWpSUkVveWloTk94NjRsbS1sak9zRnBmaEdkUS1uemtlQnkxRHhXX01VUG42M3hQVTBSME5lcDZqbG5aZk9qQXRsd2JRQ3FXWS0tQ2t5TFZ5WU5jM0VwM1ZEZ19oU0FNMFkxYw%3D%3D)
Direct story link:
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30 Dec 2020
The Rescue at Sea
Taken from "True Ghost Stories by Hereward Carrington, published in 1915, this is "The Rescue at Sea". Story read from Project Gutenberg, see https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44625
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