Memoirs

Letters of John Keats

by John Keats Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
These are the letters of John Keats, as written to family, close friends and others during his brief, eventful years as an artist. (However,…

A Small Boy and Others

by Henry James Read by mb 5
A Small Boy and Others offers a glimpse into the formative years of renowned author Henry James. In this autobiographical work, James reflec…

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

by Benvenuto Cellini Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as h…

Letters of Ulysses S. Grant

by Ulysses S. Grant Read by Jim Clevenger 4.1
Among the national leaders whose names will always hold an honorable place in American history is Ulysses S. Grant, the simple-hearted man a…

On the Trail of The Immigrant

by Edward A. Steiner Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
How did the immigrants come to America? Who were they? What Where did they come from? In this book, Edward Steiner tells of the experiences…

Letter from China

by Peter James Froning Read by Peter James Froning 4.9
This is a poignant and irreverent diary of the author's yearlong (2001-2) experience of teaching English to college students in Beijing, Peo…

Martyred Armenia

by Fa'Iz El-Ghusein Read by Margaret Espaillat 4.9
This is a first hand account of the Armenian Genocide written by a Syrian who had been a Turkish official for three and a half years. His ac…

Screen Acting

by Mae Marsh Read by Amanda Friday 4.7
Silent film star, Mae Marsh, recounts her life as an actress in this publication, what she deems as being the answer to thousands of letters…

Men, Women and Guns

by Sapper Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
World War I stories, as told through the eyes of someone who was there, but leavened with humour and an eye for the ridiculous side of human…

The Underground Railroad

by William Still Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
"Never before has the working of the Underground Railroad been so thoroughly explained. Here we have in complete detail the various met…

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

by George Washington Plunkitt Read by John W. Michaels 4.9
In this insightful memoir, George Washington Plunkitt, a prominent figure in New York City's Tammany Hall, offers a firsthand account of the…

Our Old Home

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by Margaret Espaillat 4.4
These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were first published in the form of a …

Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days

by Annie L. Burton Read by Michele Fry 4.1
This is a short and simple, yet poignant autobiography of Annie Burton, who recounts her early carefree childhood as a slave on a southern p…

The Diary of a Dead Officer

by Arthur Graeme West Read by Ruth Golding 3.7
Published posthumously in 1919, this collection of diary entries presents a scathing picture of army life and is said to be one of the most …

My Life

by Anton Chekhov Read by Expatriate 4.6
A provincial youth of wealth and noble status refuses to employ himself in the typical occupations of the higher classes, thus acquiring a r…

The Underground Railroad

by William Still Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
"This is one of the most remarkable volumes of the century. Its publication has only been made possible by a combination of circumstanc…

Prelude

by Katherine Mansfield Read by iremonger 4.2
Prelude invites listeners into the evocative world of Katherine Mansfield's childhood in New Zealand, capturing the essence of youth and the…

The Book of Divine Consolation

by Blessed Angela Of Foligno Read by Ann Boulais 5
The Blessed Angela of Foligno, T.O.S.F., (c. 1248 – 4 January 1309) was a Christian author, Franciscan tertiary and mystic. She was noted no…

Specimen Days

by Walt Whitman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his e…

Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush

by Susanna Moodie Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
As a middle class Englishwoman Moodie did not particularly enjoy "the bush", as she called it. She and her husband moved to Bellev…

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