Memoirs
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Read by David Gunn
Calvin Coolidge
A relatively short, autobiographical account of the life of Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States of America. The contents sp…
War Prison Diary
Read by Barry Eads
Michael Dougherty
The diary kept by Michael Dougherty, a Union private in the American Civil War, while imprisoned in various Confederate prison camps. Doughe…
A True Picture of Emigration
Read by Ted Lienhart
Rebecca Burlend
Complete title: "A True Picture of Emigration: or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America; being a full and impartial account o…
Life of Frances Power Cobbe
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Frances Power Cobbe
Frances Power Cobbe was an important Irish-Anglo writer, suffragist, anti-vivisectionist, philosopher, and reformer of the mid to late 1800s…
The Third Voyage of James Cook
Read by David Cole
James Cook
Only months after his return from his mammoth Second Voyage, the Admiralty ordered Cook back to the Pacific, ostensibly to return Omai, a yo…
Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball
Read by Mark Harrington
Babe Ruth
This book is an autobiographical account by one of baseball's legendary names. Ruth writes about his introduction to the game in his youth i…
The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas
Lord Alfred Douglas
Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas wrote his autobiography in his late fifties, some 29 years after the death of Oscar Wilde. Since the publication…
De Gedenkschriften van Jozef Grimaldi de Clown
Read by Marcel Coenders
Charles Dickens
De door Charles Dickens bewerkte autobiografie van Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837). De eerste clown die zijn gezicht wit schminkte.
How We Elected Lincoln
Read by David Wales
Abram J. Dittenhoefer
Dittenhoefer as a young man campaigned for Lincoln in 1860 and was an elector for Lincoln in the presidential election of 1864. Born in Cha…