Biography & Autobiography
Summer Days in Shakespeare Land
Read by Lee Smalley
Charles George Harper
"Some delights of the ancient town of Stratford-upon-Avon and the country round about, together with a sketch of the life of Mr. Willia…
John Gutenberg, First Master Printer
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Franz Von Dingelstedt
This is a brief sketch of the last years of the life of Johannes (John) Gutenberg, the man who invented the movable letter press. We join hi…
Horace Walpole's Letters
Read by Barbara Baker
Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford, was a cultivated participant in, and observer of, the social and political life of Georgian England. His…
A Journey Round My Room
Read by Steven Watson
Xavier De Maistre
Sentenced to house arrest for forty-two days owing to his participation in a duel, Xavier de Maistre was inspired to write a travel memoir a…
The Early Hanoverians
Read by Pamela Nagami
Edward Ellis Morris
In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old k…
Partial Portraits
Read by Rita Boutros
Henry James
In this book, writer Henry James gives wonderful and probing insights into the lives and works of many famous and interesting writers, some …
Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian
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Alma Lutz
Alma Lutz's outstanding biography of Susan B. Anthony is revered for its descriptive power, attention to detail and historical significance …
Great Men and Famous Women
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Charles F. Horne
A collection of writings about a variety of men and women from history who were some of the most prominent people around at the time. Alfred…
The Long Ago
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Jacob William Wright and J. W. Wright
Short memory of boyhood by a little-known American poet based in Carmel-By-The-Sea, California. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
The Empresses of Constantinople
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Joseph Martin McCabe and Joseph Martin Mccabe
In concluding an earlier volume on the mistresses of the western Roman Empire I observed that, as the gallery of fair and frail ladies close…
Richard Strauss
Read by David Wales
Herbert Francis Peyser
There was not much truly spectacular about the course of [Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bede…
Letters of Oscar Wilde
Read by Rob Marland
Oscar Wilde
This third collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes the letters Wilde wrote from prison. It begins with notes of thanks to t…
The Life of Buddha
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A. Ferdinand Hérold
This is more than a biography of the spiritual leader, they are lessons we all can learn from his life. This is an enjoyable venture explor…
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven
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Alexander Wheelock Thayer
The first scholarly biography on the life of Ludwig Von Beethoven. Volume 1 - Summary by Realisticspeakers
Ponnamal, Her Story
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Amy Wilson Carmichael
"A girl stood alone in the dark, listening. No one moved about her; the old mother-in-law who slept near by breathed steadily, she wou…
The Nobel Prize
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Various
The Nobel Prizes are international awards bestowed once a year by Scandinavian committees for cultural and scientific advances. They were es…
Mark Twain and the Happy Island
Read by John Greenman
Elizabeth Wallace
This Mark Twain Memoir by Elizabeth Wallace paints an idyllic portrait of his time in Bermuda, not long before his death in 1910. Wallace an…
Hypatia
Read by Rita Boutros
John Toland
Hypatia is John Toland's biography of the one he calls "a most beautiful, most vertuous, most learned, and every way accomplish’d lady,…