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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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
And The News
1940-06-19 CBS Elmer Davis
In WWII News and Related Sound files from 1940
Old Time Radio Programs. WWII News and Related Sound files from 1940
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 …
The Nuptials of Dangerous Davis
Read by DaleBarkley
Bill Nye
In Bill Nye and Boomerang; Or the Tale of a Meek-Eyed Mule, and Some Other Literary Gems
Humorist Bill Nye was the first editor of the daily paper in Laramie, Wyoming, and named it the Laramie Boomerang in honor of his mule. As …
To the Reader
Read by InTheDesert
Richard Baxter
In The Quaker's Catechism
I suppose thou wilt marvel that I trouble myself with so wild a generation as the people called Quakers are or that I trouble thee with a fe…
"Mat," D. Webster Davis
Read by Jim Locke
Alice Dunbar Nelson
In The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer
Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Ali…
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…
Chapter VI
Read by Ben Tucker
Robert Moore Williams
In The Lost Warship
A boat of survivors cast adrift in the South Seas is picked up by the US Naval battleship The Idaho. They think their prayers have been ans…
Davis Matlock
Read by Greg Aughe
Edgar Lee Masters
In Spoon River Anthology
This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…
Prologue
Read by Larry Wilson
Madison Cawein
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 3
This is Volume 3: Nature Poems of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It's arranged in four sectio…
chapter 5
Read by Anthony Ogus
Arnold Bennett
In Riceyman Steps
Arnold Bennet's masterly novel is a gritty tale about a bookseller whose life and love of a woman are afflicted by miserliness. It is set in…
Letter 12
Read by Sibella Denton
Elizabeth Davis Bancroft
In Letters from England, 1846-1849
Elizabeth Bancroft went to England with her husband, historian George Bancroft, for three of the most dynamic years in European history. As …
Foreward
Read by James R. Hedrick
Jane E. Davis
In Jamestown and Her Neighbors on Virginia's Historic Peninsula
A brief history of the early years of the historic Virginia Peninsula lying between the James and the York Rivers and extending from Richmon…