Biography & Autobiography

Days with the Great Composers

by May Gillington Byron Read by David Wales 4.8
Days with the Great Composers invites listeners to step into the lives of some of history's most celebrated composers through a series of im…

The Sikh Religion

by Max Arthur Macauliffe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Michael MacAuliffe (also known as Max Arthur Macauliffe) was a senior British administrator, prolific scholar and author. Macauliffe is reno…

Mob Rule In New Orleans

by Ida B. Wells-Barnett Read by Holly Jenson 4.8
Born into slavery in Mississippi in 1862, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist…

Wild Animals I Have Known

by Ernest Thompson Seton Read by Ernest Thompson Seton 4.9
A BOOK THAT CHANGED AMERICA... Ernest Thompson Seton was an influential naturalist, and a sometime professional hunter and trapper. Much of…

The Life Of Abraham Lincoln

by Ward Hill Lamon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Ward Hill Lamon's work is a study of the life of the 16th President of the United States of America from his childhood to the day of his fir…

Lives of Girls Who Became Famous

by Sarah Knowles Bolton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Lives of Girls Who Became Famous offers a captivating glimpse into the lives of remarkable women who shaped history through their talents an…

A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines

by Clayton Edwards Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
It would be pleasant indeed to gather the characters of this book together and listen to the conversation of wholly different but interested…

Russia in 1919

by Arthur Ransome Read by Expatriate 4.6
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: On August 27, 1914, in London, I made this note in a memorandum book: "Met Arthur Ransome at_____'s; discussed a boo…

Three Girls in a Flat

by Enid Yandell Read by Lee Ann Howlett 4.5
Enid Yandell (October 6, 1870 - June 13, 1934) was an American sculptor who studied with Auguste Rodin and Frederick William MacMonnies. She…

The Life of Jesus Critically Examined

by David Friedrich Strauss Read by Leni 4.7
Strauss was an early pioneer in the ongoing 'Quest of the Historical Jesus' movement, and his Life of Jesus is one of the few landmarks in t…

Cleopatra

by Jacob Abbott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott offers a captivating exploration of one of history's most enigmatic figures. This biography delves into the life o…

Hannibal

by Jacob Abbott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Hannibal by Jacob Abbott offers a captivating exploration of one of history's most renowned military leaders. This biography delves into the…

The Life and Adventures of Nat Love

by Nat Love Read by Lee Elliott 4.4
Nat Love was born a slave, emancipated into abject poverty, grew up riding the range as a cowboy and spent his maturity riding the rails as …

Famous Men of Greece

by John Henry Haaren Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Famous Men of Greece offers a captivating exploration of the lives of notable figures from ancient Greece, bringing history to life through …

The Meaning of the Glorious Koran

by Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Koran (Qur'an) is regarded by Muslims as the word of God (Allah) as revealed to the prophet Muhammad. It is divided into 114 chapters (…

The Backwoods of Canada

by Catharine Parr Traill Read by Esther 4.5
The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of settlers to cultivate all the mental resources of a superi…

Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read by Martin Geeson 4.6
"She was more to me than a sister, a mother, a friend, or even than a mistress, and for this very reason she was not a mistress; in a w…

The Jesuits in North America

by Francis Parkman, Jr. Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread t…

Famous Men of Modern Times

by John Henry Haaren Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Famous Men of Modern Times offers a captivating exploration of influential figures who shaped the modern world. Through a series of biograph…

Pioneers of Science

by Oliver Lodge Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This book takes its origin in a course of lectures on the history and progress of Astronomy arranged for Sir Oliver Lodge in the year 1887. …

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