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11 - Part 2, Chapter 1

Read by Mark F. Smith


Jefferson Davis


In The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America …

Explanation …

Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)


Wallace Stevens


In Harmonium

This is the first edition of Stevens's first book, with poetry written between 1914 and 1923. A later edition was printed with the inclusion…

Chapter 26. Stephen's Tale

Read by Anthony Ogus


Arthur Morrison


In The Hole in the Wall

A lively story about a pub, and those who ran it, at the end of the 19th century in the East End Dockland of London, with its poverty-strick…

Props

Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)


Carl Sandburg


In Slabs of the Sunburnt West

Thirty-two poems about life in the American Midwest, focusing on the city of Chicago, Illinois. Summary by Matt Pierard

Chapter II

Read by Crln Yldz Ksr


Richard Harding Davis


In The Amateur

On the steamer on his way to London, Austin Ford meets a young woman, who is going to London to find her missing husband. Being a specialist…

Young Winston Davis

Read by Donald Warren


Various


In Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume III, Florida Narratives

These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…

Part 3

Read by Crln Yldz Ksr


Richard Harding Davis


In The Cynical Miss Catherwaight

This is the story of Miss Catherwaight, collector of "dishonored honors" - medals of honor pawned by the persons they were awarded…

A Good Guess

Read by Dylan M. Davis


David Cory


In Puss in Boots, Jr. and Tom Thumb

David Cory is the author of more than 40 childrens books. This book is in his series of Puss in Boots, Jr. The roots of the legend of Puss i…

Jerry Davis

Read by J. Damain


Various


In Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1

These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…

Of Books and Reading

Read by jenno


Stephen Norris Fellows and Isaac Watts


In Improvement of the Mind

"No man is obliged to learn and know everything; this can neither be sought nor required, for it is utterly impossible; yet all persons…

Publisher's Note

Read by David Wales


Richard Harding Davis


In The Boy Scout And Other Stories For Boys

RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, as a friend and fellow author has written of him, was “youth incarnate,” and there is probably nothing that he wrote …

4. At Corinto

Read by Steven Seitel


Richard Harding Davis


In Three Gringos in Venezuela and Central America

In the 1890's, three American adventurers in search of warmer weather explore Central and South American cities by steamship and on horsebac…

Dusk

Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)


F. S. Flint


In Otherworld: Cadences

English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school…

Explanation

Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)


Wallace Stevens


In The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 1

A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923.Stevens trained to be a lawyer. Within eleven years after this series of poems wer…

Ulysses

Read by Alan Mapstone


James Hebblethwaite


In The Poems of James Hebblethwaite

James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …

Part 2

Read by Crln Yldz Ksr


Richard Harding Davis


In A Wasted Day

This is a delightful little story about the most successful banker on Wall Street, who finds his philanthropic side when one of his former e…

A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man

Read by Bryan Ness


Noah Davis



The object of the writer, in preparing this account of himself, is toRAISE SUFFICIENT MEANS TO FREE HIS LAST TWO CHILDREN FROM SLAVERY.Havin…

Richmond

Read by KevinS


Walter Higgins


In Father Thames

Originally published in 1922, this work details the history and importance of one of Great Britain's grandest rivers, the River Thames. It i…

XXIII. The Artist's Notebook

Read by Owlivia


Stephen Graham


In The Gentle Art of Tramping

Stephen Graham tramped extensively around pre-revolutionary Russia, and with immigrants as they landed on the East coast of America and spre…

The Letters

Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)


Alfred, Lord Tennyson


In Maud, and Other Poems

A collection of poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, his first book of poetry after having become poet laureate in 1850. Among the "other po…

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