Brett W. Downey

David Crockett: His Life and Adventures

by John Stevens Cabot Abbott Read by Brett W. Downey 4.5
David "Davy" Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a celebrated 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier an…

Fighting the Flying Circus

by Eddie Rickenbacker Read by Brett W. Downey 4.7
This is the WWI memoirs of Medal of Honor winner, Capt Eddie Rickenbacker. He fought in and eventually became commander of the 94th "Ha…

Sergeant York and His People

by Sam K. Cowan Read by Brett W. Downey 4.7
From a cabin back in the mountains of Tennessee, forty-eight miles from the railroad, a young man went to the World War. He was untutored in…

How to Write a Novel

by William James McGlothlin Read by Brett W. Downey 4.4
I address myself to the man or woman of talent—those people who have writing ability, but who need instruction in the manipulation of charac…

Eric Brighteyes

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Brett W. Downey 4.4
The Saga of Eric Brighteyes is the title of an epic viking novel by H. Rider Haggard, and concerns the adventures of its eponymous principal…

King of the Khyber Rifles

by Talbot Mundy Read by Brett W. Downey 4.5
Athelstan King is a British Secret Agent stationed in India at the beginning of WWI. He is attached to the Khyber Rifles regiment as a cover…

Rappaccini's Daughter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by Brett W. Downey 4.2
The story is set in Padua in a distant, but unspecified past. From his quarters, Giovanni, a young student of letters, observes Beatrice, th…

Tom of the Raiders

by Austin Bishop and William Henry Bishop Read by Brett W. Downey 4.6
Tom of the Raiders follows the journey of a young man who enlists in the Union Army during the tumultuous days of the American Civil War. As…

The Chronicles of Count Antonio

by Anthony Hope Read by Brett W. Downey 4.3
How it fell out that Count Antonio, a man of high lineage, forsook the service of his Prince, disdained the obligation of his rank, set law …