Memoirs

Laughter Limited

by Nina Wilcox Putnam Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
When some people write the story of their life it is a sign that they are dead. There are in the motion-picture world also a class of dead …

See You Sunday

by Pastor Les Shelton Read by Pastor Les Shelton
Pastor Les Shelton of The First Church of the Nazarene in Sacramento, California has always been a keen observer of life and the stories he …

An American Idyll

by Cornelia Stratton Parker Read by Mary Schneider
In a memoir marked by joy, love, and an unbending sense of adventure, Cornelia Stratton Parker reveals the heart of a unique man and their l…

Ash Dogs

by Justin Nicholes Read by Justin Nicholes 4
Marcus Green has just been discharged after a tour of duty in Iraq. Wounded and disfigured, Marcus returns to a life he barely recognizes...…

An Emigrant's Home Letters

by Sir Henry Parkes Read by Beeswaxcandle 5
Letters written by Henry Parkes to his family in Birmingham, England as he made his way to London and then to Sydney. The letters were gathe…

Confessions of Two Brothers

by John Cowper Powys Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Confessions of Two Brothers offers an intimate glimpse into the mind of John Cowper Powys, as he reflects on his beliefs, temperament, and t…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte

by Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.1
The author and Napoleon become boyhood friends when they are eight years old in Corsica. They separate when Napoleon is transferred from the…

A Waterbiography

by Robert C. Leslie Read by Peter Kelleher 3.4
Robert C. Leslie (1826-1901) was an artist and writer who, at an early age fell in love with the sea, the sea of Sail, not of Steam. He desc…

Laddie's Magical Glowing Balls Of Colored Gas

by Richard Stephenson Read by Richard Stephenson 5
Laddie is a schizophrenic inmate who lives in the violent, obscene environment of a maximum security prison. Delusions swirl in his mind li…

Pushing Leaves Towards the Sun

by Mark L Berry Read by Mark L Berry 3.4
When Oso gets yanked off his motorcycle and killed by a closed parking lot chain, Billy feels guilty for having taught him to hop curbs and …

Brief Lives

by John Aubrey Read by Nicole Lee 5
Volume 2 of Aubrey's sparkling gossipy biographical pieces on his contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glim…

Three Accounts of Peterloo

by Francis Archibald Bruton Read by Phil Benson 5
A companion volume to F.A. Bruton's 'The Story of Peterloo', the full title of this short collection is 'Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewi…

Visions of My Father

by MaryJo Romano Read by MaryJo Romano 4.7
His hand gripped my bicycle seat as he ran alongside me that warm summer day. Even though he was young and strong, he was breathing heavily,…

Every Photo Tells... Obscurities

by Mick Bordet Read by Mick Bordet 3
Del Fawmer is a solo musican with a blossoming career, but her life is turned upside down when her dying grandmother asks her to delve into …

A Versailles Christmas-Tide

by Mary Stuart Boyd Read by David Wales 4.1
In the heart of France, a young boy's battle with scarlet fever brings his parents rushing to his side, weaving a poignant narrative of love…

My Hunt After 'The Captain'

by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read by David Wales 3.4
Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally publ…

Lost and Not Found

by Teel McClanahan III Read by Teel McClanahan III 3.7
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 …

A Handy Guide for Beggars

by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay Read by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay 4
"Being sundry explorations, made while afoot and penniless in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Pe…

The Sins of the Fathers

by William Tennant Read by William Tennant 3.2
This is a story about life. This is a story about light. This is a story of how some men are the product of their lives, and some are the pr…

All That Can Be Shaken

by Essie Collins Read by Essie Collins 4.2
All That Can Be Shaken by Essie Collins (a pseudonym) is a moving true story of a family's struggle with a tragedy that shakes their lives a…

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