Memoirs

Idle Days in Patagonia

by William Henry Hudson Read by Kevin W. Davidson 4.9
Hudson traveled to Patagonia to study the birds, but shortly upon arrival accidentally shot himself in the knee, requiring a lengthy period …

Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark

by Mary Wollstonecraft Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Published in 1796, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark is a personal travel narrative by the eighteenth-…

Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph

by Frances Sheridan Read by Rachel Lintern 4.6
Sidney and Cecilia are best childhood friends who are forced to part for 5 years. In that interval, Sidney Bidulph - an undoubtedly good and…

A Journal from Japan

by Marie Stopes Read by Expatriate 4.4
Marie Stopes was a highly controversial scientist and activist in her era, campaigning for radical new views of love-based marriage, birth c…

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 A Donkey's Hurricane Deck

by Robert Pitcher Woodward and R. Pitcher Woodward Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
"A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours - starting…

East by West

by Sir Henry W. Lucy Read by Ruth Golding 4
East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East in 1883…

Deciphering the Golden Flower

by JJ Semple Read by JJ Semple 4.2
JJ Semple doesn’t just wake up one day and say to himself, “I’m going to crack the coded mysteries in The Secret of the Golden Flower.” He s…

My Trip Abroad

by Charlie Chaplin Read by Chuck Williamson 4.6
"A steak and kidney pie, influenza and a cablegram. There is the triple alliance that is responsible for the whole thing."So begin…

The Getting of Wisdom

by Henry Handel Richardson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
The Getting of Wisdom tells the story of Laura Rambotham, a 12-year-old girl who is just starting at her boarding school. This is based on H…

The Sword of Deborah

by F. Tennyson Jesse Read by MaryAnn 4.7
"The Sword of Deborah" contains the reflections of a woman journalist visiting women working behind the lines in France during Wor…

An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army

by Flora Sandes Read by MaryAnn 4.6
Flora Sandes was the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War I. Initially a St. John Ambulance volunteer, she trave…

You Never Miss the Dopamine

by Bill Schmalfeldt Read by Bill Schmalfeldt 4.7
He's quickly becoming the Lewis Black of Parkinson's Disease. In a series of hilarious essays, Bill Schmalfeldt (author of "No Doorwa…

The Minor Works of St Teresa of Avila

by St. Teresa of Avila Read by Ann Boulais 4.6
The prayer and Exclamations, or Meditations, of St Teresa of Avila, recorded in honor of the 500th anniversary of the Saint's birth (March 2…

The Harbor

by Ernest Poole Read by Tom Weiss 4.1
The Harbor was written in 1915 by Ernest Poole. The novel is considered by many to be one of Poole’s best efforts even though his book, The …

The Story of Mary MacLane

by Mary Maclane Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021) 4.5
At the age of 19 in 1902, MacLane published her first book, The Story of Mary MacLane. It sold 100,000 copies in the first month and was pop…

Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon

by Henry Fielding Read by James E. Carson 4.3
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon captures the essence of an 18th-century sea journey, as renowned author Henry Fielding embarks on a sailing ad…

Child Life in Colonial Days

by Alice Morse Earle Read by Susan Morin 4.4
The accounts of old-time child life gathered for this book are wholly unconscious and full of honesty and simplicity, not only from the atti…

Eighteen Months' Imprisonment

by Donald Shaw Read by Lee Smalley 3.9
This is an absorbing memoir of an inmate's experiences and impressions while in a London prison. He describes himself as "a man of educ…

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…

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