Memoirs

In Italy with the 332nd Infantry

by Joseph L. Lettau Read by KevinS 4.8
A brief, personal recounting of the 332nd Infantry in World War I, including training in America, a brief billet in France, activities in It…

Across the Plains

by Catherine Sager Pringle Read by Carol Pelster 4.3
The Sager family, including seven children, set out on the Oregon trail in 1844. Accidents and disease made it a dangerous trip, and both …

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte

by Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne Read by Gillian Hendrie 4.8
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…

Just Me

by Pearl White Read by Pamela Krantz 4.5
Perhaps the first memoir written by a film celebrity, Pearl White's Just Me gives a first-person account of the actress' rise to stardom. Wh…

Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

by Mary White Rowlandson Read by Matthew Scott Surprenant 4.2
This is the story of Mary Rowlandson’s capture by American Indians in 1675. It is a blunt, frightening, and detailed work with several momen…

Far Away and Long Ago

by William Henry Hudson Read by John Greenman 4.3
A boy (between the ages of 4 and 12) discovers the natural world around him in his home in the Argentine Pampas and in Buenos Aires. Author …

Five Years of My Life

by Alfred Dreyfus Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French Army was court martialed in 1894 on a trumped up charge of treason and condemned to life impr…

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…

Holmes' Own Story

by Herman W. Mudgett Read by Anautumnous 4.3
An account written by the infamous serial murderer H. H. Holmes in an attempt to exonerate himself while being tried for numerous crimes in …

Under the Guns

by Annie Wittenmyer Read by Celine Major 5
Preface:The stories and reminiscences in this book are true to life, every one of them. They are told just as they occurred, without any att…

Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the An…

by Francis Bond Head Read by Sue Anderson 4.6
“Galloped on with no stopping, but merely to change horses until five o’clock in the evening—very tired indeed, but . . . saw fresh horses i…

The Life of Josiah Henson

by Josiah Henson Read by KevinS 5
The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself is an autobiographical narrative given by J…

Reminiscences Of A Workhouse Medical Officer

by Joseph Rogers Read by David Wales 4.8
Joseph Rogers (1821-1889) was an English physician, medical officer, and health care reformer in London. The system of poor-law dispensarie…

The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge

by Calvin Coolidge Read by David Gunn 4.7
A relatively short, autobiographical account of the life of Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States of America. The contents sp…

The Life of a Fossil Hunter

by Charles Sternberg Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Charles Sternberg was an American fossil collector and paleontologist. He was active in both fields from 1876 to 1928, and collected fossils…

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…

A Personal Record

by Joseph Conrad Read by Peter Dann 4.8
Conrad began dictating the series of loose autobiographical sketches that would become 'A Personal Record' in 1911, when he was half way thr…

War

by Pierre Loti Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud] (1850-1923) was a French naval officer and novelist. The present book is one of his few works of non-fiction, a s…

The Mysterious Stranger

by Walter Bates Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Sometime in the month of July, 1812, nearly a hundred years ago now, a well dressed, smooth spoken man, less than thirty years of age, made …

Walking In Faith

by Tim Greenwood Read by Tim Greenwood 4.8
My open-heart surgery had failed and the doctor’s told me that nothing more could be done. At age 45, I was diagnosed with terminal heart d…

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