Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

Arabella Stuart

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George Payne Rainsford James



Lady Arabella Stuart was an English noblewoman at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At one time considered to be a possible successo…

Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer

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Richard Steele



Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac-maker and astrol…

Langs Lijnen van Geleidelijkheid

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Louis Couperus



Men moet verklaren dat de lezende wereld, als zij niet ontvankelijk was voor de 'Lijnen van geleidelijkheid', al heel ondankbaar zou moeten …

Elizabeth Musch

Read by Marcel Coenders


Jacob Van Lennep



Een historisch vrijwel correcte beschrijving van het leven van Elisabeth Musch (kleindochter van Jacob Cats) en haar man Henri de Fleury de …

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (version 4)

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Charlotte Brontë



Jane Eyre is an extraordinary orphan girl who is treated horribly by her aunt Mrs. Reed and her children. She is sent away to a girl’s board…

Days With Sir Roger de Coverley

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Joseph Addison



The author Sir Richard Steele, who was one of the writers for The Spectator, gets the opportunity to spend a month in Sir Roger de Coverley'…

Jean-Christophe, Volume I

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Romain Rolland



The central character, Jean-Christophe Krafft, is a German musician of Belgian extraction, a composer of genius whose life is depicted from …

The History Of Sir Richard Calmady

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Lucas Malet



Lucas Malet is the pen name of Mary Kingsley, daughter of Charles Kingsley. She became a hugely successful Victorian novelist, rivalling Rud…

The American Diary of a Japanese Girl

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Yone Noguchi



This is the fictional diary of a young Japanese woman, first published in installments before being published in a single volume. The book d…

Lore of Proserpine

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Maurice Henry Hewlett



If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one…

Reveries of a Bachelor

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Ik Marvel



Reveries of a Bachelor, or A Book of the Heart, is a novel by American author Donald Grant Mitchell published under the pseudonym Ik Marvel.…

The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire

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Thomas Wallace Knox



An engaging travelogue first published in 1886, written conversationally among two youths and their guide and mentor. Subtitle: Adventures o…

Metamorfoze

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Louis Couperus



-... Je verbergt je achter je woorden: je wikkelt je in je stijl als in een mantel. - Neen. Ik leef een metamorfoze. Meer niet. Ik geef meze…

Catherine: A Story

Read by Mark Leder


William Makepeace Thackeray



The wild and raw adventures of Catherine Hayes, who was burned for murder at Tyburn in 1742 - Summary by Mark Leder

Marion, the Story of an Artist's Model

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Onoto Watanna



In this Asian/Canadian perspective on "foreignness," Marion (the protagonist) eventually leaves the cruelty of racial discriminati…

Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling

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Bertha Von Suttner



Die Waffen Nieder, in English: Lay Down Your Arms is a fictional biography, which describes four wars from the perspective of a soldier's wi…

Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief

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James Fenimore Cooper



Take a fascinating journey from France to America through the "eyes" of a pocket handkerchief. She marvels at the vastness of the …

Doctor Johnson: A Play

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A. Edward Newton



The life of Doctor Johnson, told in his own words and (mostly) those of others around him. "Anyone with a teaspoonful of imagination ca…

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 1

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



The novel is in eight books. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape …

Idomen, or The Vale of Yumuri

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Maria Gowen Brooks



Idomen (1843) is the creative-nonfiction memoir of the beautiful and brilliant American poetess Maria Gowen Brooks, who was compared in the …

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