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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…