XLI Poems by E. E. Cummings (1894 - 1962) Genre(s): Single author Read by: Scotty Smith in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - the sky was 00:00:51 - 02 - of my 00:01:50 - 03 - when life is quite through with 00:02:39 - 04 - into the smiting 00:03:29 - 05 - Where's Madge then 00:04:25 - 06 - after five 00:05:29 - 07 - between green mountains 00:06:17 - 08 - in the rain- 00:07:20 - 09 - Lady of Silence 00:08:13 - 10 - the hills 00:09:00 - 11 - i will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers 00:10:04 - 12 - cruelly,love 00:11:04 - 13 - why did you go 00:11:54 - 14 - little tree 00:13:14 - 15 - conversation with my friend is particularly 00:15:05 - 16 - one April dusk the 00:16:30 - 17 - Picasso 00:17:39 - 18 - the skinny voice 00:18:45 - 19 - as usual i did not find him in cafes, the more dissolute 00:20:37 - 20 - it's just like a coffin's 00:21:59 - 21 - my mind is 00:23:01 - 22 - 5 00:24:42 - 23 - at the ferocious phenomenon of 5 o'clock i find myself 00:28:08 - 24 - earth like a tipsy 00:29:00 - 25 - Humanity i love you 00:30:13 - 26 - when learned darkness from our searched world 00:31:24 - 27 - O Thou to whom the musical white spring 00:32:34 - 28 - when unto nights of autumn do complain 00:33:45 - 29 - this is the garden: colours come and go, 00:34:59 - 30 - Thou in whose swordgreat story shine the deeds 00:36:13 - 31 - when the proficient poison of sure sleep 00:37:28 - 32 - and what were roses. Perfume? for i do 00:38:51 - 33 - come nothing to my comparable soul 00:39:58 - 34 - when my sensational moments are no more 00:41:14 - 35 - I have seen her a stealthily frail 00:42:25 - 36 - who's most afraid of death? thou art of him 00:43:41 - 37 - perhaps it is to feel strike 00:44:47 - 38 - when i am in Boston, i do not speak 00:45:46 - 39 - will suddenly trees leap from winter and will 00:46:55 - 40 - a fragrant sag of fruit distinctly grouped. 00:48:00 - 41 - by god i want above fourteenth More information: https://librivox.org/xli-poems-by-e-e-cummings/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)

Recollections of Life in Ohio, from 1813-1840 by William Cooper HOWELLS (1807 - 1894) Genre(s): *Non-fiction, History Read by: Sue Anderson in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - Emigration to America; Down the Ohio by Keelboat 00:31:36 - 02 - The Woolen Mill; Sketch of Quaker Usages and Customs 01:02:02 - 03 - Scanty Schooling; A Religious Enthusiast 01:32:30 - 04 - A Log Cabin; Pigs in the Woods 02:08:30 - 05 - Early Steamboats; Rafts on the River 02:44:24 - 06 - Camp-Meeting in the Rain; A Night Grammar School 03:17:14 - 07 - Washing of Blue Feet; Hewn-Log Farmhouses 03:52:03 - 08 - Tobacco Raising; Ohio Canal and Work on it 04:28:17 - 09 - The Author Opens a Grammar School; How Singing was Taught 04:59:50 - 10 - Six Cents Fine and Five Minutes in Prison; The Author Starts a Magazine 05:30:45 - 11 - Public Executions; Slaveholders' Panic in Wheeling 06:03:55 - 12 - Opposition to the Mexican War; Declining Years Recollections of Life in Ohio is the autobiography of William Cooper Howells (1807-1894), father of the American novelist William Dean Howells. The Howells were Welsh woolen mill owners. William Cooper's father brought the family to America in 1808--at a time when Great Britain actually forbid skilled workmen from emigrating, thus putting the father's practical knowledge of mill machinery in great demand. Small scale industries--paper and woolen mills, flour mills, and distilleries were sprouting apace with farms in the newly opened lands of Ohio, where the Howells settled in 1813. This was a time and place where neighbors joined together to raise log barns and husk corn, where local peach brandy was a staple drink, and where religious revivalism permeated the social fabric, fanned by itinerant preachers such as Johnny Appleseed. The Howells were originally Quakers, but William Cooper's father converted to an 'enthusiastic' brand of Methodism, and William Cooper in later years followed the teachings of Swedenborg.William Cooper Howells' recollections see him herding the family pig down the road with a noose around its hind leg, acting as 'corner man' at a log barn raising, curing tobacco in a smoke house, grubbing stumps, fighting snakes, and wrestling with what it meant to be 'religious' at the camp meetings to which father took him. Early on, William Cooper showed a literary bent and an interest in politics. He became a printer and a newspaper man and, in the 1870's and 80's served as U.S. consul in Quebec and Toronto.The novelist William Dean Howells writes of his dad in the introduction to the Recollections: 'My father was always a very close and critical observer, both of nature and human nature and equally a lover of both. He was not a poet in the artistic sense, but he was a poet in his view of life, the universe, creation; and his dream of it included man, as well as the woods and fields and their citizenship.' Recollections of Life in Ohio is a fascinating and enjoyable read for anyone interested in U.S. frontier history. More information: http://librivox.org/recollections-of-life-in-ohio-by-william-cooper-howells/

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 7 by VARIOUS ( - ) Genre(s): Anthologies, Anthologies, Literary Collections Read by: Mike Pelton, Leonard Wilson, Tony Addison, John Burlinson, Bruce Pirie, KarenRenae, VfkaBT, Sheila, Availle, deongines, Kalynda, Roohi, Dorothy Godfrey-Smith, Joseph Tabler, ToddHW, AnthonyPatch, MaryAnn in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 38 - Biograophical Note on Caius Julius Cæsar 00:31:16 - 39 - The Defeat of Ariovistus and the Germans From 'The Gallic Wars' 00:57:16 - 40 - On the Manners and Customs of Ancient Gauls and Germans and The Two Lieutenants from 'The Gallic Wars', and Epigram on Terentius 01:19:16 - 41 - Pete Quilliam's First Born from The Manxman 01:27:09 - 42 - Biographical Note on Pedro Calderon 01:40:46 - 43 - Selected excerpts 02:07:29 - 44 - Remarks on the Right of Petition 02:27:30 - 45 - Selected speeches 03:02:11 - 46 - Selected excerpts 03:16:23 - 47 - Selected excerpts The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering 'American households a mass of good reading', the editors drew from literature of all times and all kinds what they considered the best pieces of human writing, and compiled an ambitious collection of 45 volumes (with a 46th being an index-guide). Besides the selection and translation of a huge number of poems, letters, short stories and sections of books, the collection offers, before each chapter, a short essay about the author or subject in question. In many cases, chapters contemplate not one author, but certain groups of works, organized by nationality, subject or period; there is, thus, a chapter on Accadian-Babylonian literature, one on the Holy Grail, and one on Chansons, for example.The result is a collection that holds the interest, for the variety of subjects and forms, but also as a means of first contact with such famous and important authors that many people have heard of, but never read, such as Abelard, Dante or Lord Byron. According to the editor Charles Dudley Warner, this collection 'is not a library of reference only, but a library to be read.'This seventh volume contains chapters from 'Henry Cuyler Bunner' to 'Charles Stuart Calverley'. Summary by Leni. More information: http://librivox.org/library-of-the-worlds-best-literature-ancient-and-modern-volume-7/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)

Windsor Castle, Book 3 by William Harrison AINSWORTH (1805 - 1882) Genre(s): Historical Fiction Read by: Bellona Times, Ric F in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - Chapter I 00:21:49 - 02 - Chapter II 00:44:02 - 03 - Chapter III 01:14:15 - 04 - Chapter IV 01:26:30 - 05 - Chapter V Book 3 - The History of the Castle. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During Henry's pursuit of Boleyn, the novel describes other couples, including the Earl of Surrey and Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald, a match Henry does not support. However, some of the individuals oppose Henry and his desires for Boleyn, including Thomas Wyat who wants her for himself and Cardinal Wolsey, who uses a maiden of mysterious birth, Mabel Lyndwood, to lure Henry away from Boleyn. [...] Intertwined with the Court is the story of Herne the Hunter, a spirit of Windsor Forest. He is an evil force that seeks to take the souls of various individuals, and Henry tries to stop him, but is never able to do so. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia) Other books in the series:Book 1 Book 2 Book 4Book 5Book 6 More information: http://librivox.org/windsor-castle-book-3-by-william-harrison-ainsworth/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)