Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer
Read by Elijah Fisher
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…
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'…
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…
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 …
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
Read by Lee Smalley
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 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…
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…
Metamorfoze
Read by Marcel Coenders
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…
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…
Marion, the Story of an Artist's Model
Read by James K. White
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…
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…
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
Idomen, or The Vale of Yumuri
Read by Grant Hurlock
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 …
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
Read by Keith Salis
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 …
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 1
Read by Peter Tucker
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 …
Jean-Christophe In Paris
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Romain Rolland
After fleeing to Paris, Jean-Christophe finds himself in great financial difficulty and takes up music teaching in wealthy families. As for …
Tattlings of a Retired Politician
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Forrest Crissey
"The letters (non-partisan) of Hon. William Bradley, Ex-Governor and former veteran of practical politics, written to his friend and pr…
Die Geschichte meines Zeitgenossen
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Vladimir Korolenko
Poetische Beschreibung der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse in der russischen Provinz des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts (mit teilweise au…