Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
- Humorous Lives: Fictional Memoirs
- Fictional Lives Through History
- Dramatic Lives: Fictional Biographies
- Classics of Personal Journeys
Kibun Daizin
This is the story of a brave, skillful and ambitious boy who sets out to become the wealthiest man of Japan. He succeeds in doing just that …
The History Of Sir Richard Calmady
Lucas Malet is the pen name of Mary Kingsley, daughter of Charles Kingsley. She became a hugely successful Victorian novelist, rivalling Rud…
Dialogues of the Dead
Can the dead of different ages and spaces meet in the afterlife? This is a thought that has occupied a number of writers throughout literatu…
The History of Pendennis
In Pendennis, William Makepeace Thackeray skillfully shows the coming of age of Arthur Pendennis, a young gentleman trying to make his way i…
Doctor Johnson
The life of Doctor Johnson, told in his own words and (mostly) those of others around him. "Anyone with a teaspoonful of imagination ca…
David Copperfield
David Copperfield, like all of Dickens' novels, is filled with many memorable characters (because they are hyperbolic representations of cha…
Jean-Christophe In Paris
After fleeing to Paris, Jean-Christophe finds himself in great financial difficulty and takes up music teaching in wealthy families. As for …
Where the Blue Begins
In his collection Plum Pudding, Christopher Morley included two pieces about an unprepossessing mutt named “Haphazard Gissing I” with a gift…
Rezanov
This novel by the prolific Californian author Gertrude Horn Atherton is based on the real life story of Nikolai Rezanov, a man who, in 1806,…
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
This is the second half of the novel by Goethe (the first half, Volume 1, has been recorded separately).It describes the completion of Meist…
Rulers of Kings
When a child is born, its temperament and character are unknown. The effects of nature versus nurture, of heredity and of circumstance are a…
Sentimental Tommy
"J. M. Barrie is most noted for being the author of Peter Pan, the beloved book about a child who does not want to grow up. The two Tom…
Tattlings of a Retired Politician
"The letters (non-partisan) of Hon. William Bradley, Ex-Governor and former veteran of practical politics, written to his friend and pr…
Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer
Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac-maker and astrol…
8810
Join Bill Morison on his journey through corporate America, as he learns about auditing insurance and just how irritating people can be. Thi…
Lore of Proserpine
If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one…
Agnes Sorel
The Hundred Years' War: a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against…
Lost and Not Found
Lost and Not Found details one man’s journey all the way from being laid off from his mundane corporate job to becoming the author he truly …
Mary of Burgundy
Fifteenth century Europe was a time of political upheaval and uncertainty. Mary of Burgundy of the House of Valois ruled over a collection o…
Tommy and Grizel
This book continues Sentimental Tommy, also in the Librivox catalogue. Tommy grows up and marries Grizel. But life is not only roses and rai…