Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

Victory

by Joseph Conrad Read by skoval 4
Recollections of the life of Axel Heyst, one-time manager of the liquidated Tropical Belt Coal Company in a fictitious island in the Pacific…

Lolly Willowes

by Sylvia Townsend Warner Read by Shannon Sullivan 4.2
Laura Willowes, forced to move from her family home due to the death of her father, endures her role as Aunt Lolly in her new home with her …

Open The Door

by Catherine Carswell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This award-winning book tells the coming of age story of Joanna Bannerman. Considered largely autobiographical, it shows Joanna with all her…

Moving the Mountain

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Read by Elizabeth Klett 3.9
Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodica…

Unvarnished Tales

by William Mackay Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This book is a short selection of varied fictional tales. They must have been what the author wished for them to be and certainly perfect fo…

The Newcomes

by William Makepeace Thackeray Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of such works as Vanity Fair, The …

Gentle Julia

by Booth Tarkington Read by Bellona Times 4
Penrod for girls in the form of Florence, the bratty younger cousin of luminous Julia Atwater, enlivens this romantic comedy set in Tarkingt…

Gloriana, or The Revolution of 1900

by Florence Dixie Read by Mark Nelson 5
At the age of twelve, Gloriana de Lara dreams of the day that women are no longer second-class citizens, be able to vote, can aspire to any …

Orlando, A Biography

by Virginia Woolf Read by Nicole J. LeBoeuf 4.6
Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking satire of British culture, customs, literature, philosophy, and politics from the Elizabethan era to the aut…

The Story of Ahikar

by Ahikar Read by CJ Plogue 4.9
The Story of Ahikar is a fictional work. It is a colorful story but considered to be a work containing great wisdom. The story of Ahikar …

Beatrice

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Michele Eaton 4.2
Beatrice is a lonely twenty-two year old woman. After saving Geoffrey's life, they fall in love. However, Geoffrey is married. In addition, …

Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches

by Edwin Eastman Read by Claude Stewart 4.6
Best described as a fictional autobiography, Clark Johnson authored the following adventure to promote the sale of his brand of Homeopathic …

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

by James Hogg Read by Claude Stewart 4.5
The author calls this a religious parable and it is called an allegory in the book itself. A young, 18th century Scottish boy is converted t…

The Doctor's Red Lamp

by Charles Wells Moulton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
A fictional series of short stories from various authors, each containing stories of doctors. The compiled set of stories has various ranges…

The Genius

by Theodore Dreiser Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
"The only figure of literary repute who ever rated The "Genius" as first among the novels of Theodore Dreiser was Theodore Dr…

The Idiot at home

by John Kendrick Bangs Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Idiot returns along with Ms Idiot and their two children, Mollie and Tommy, move into their first house in suburbia. What follows are en…

Celibates

by George Moore and George Logan Moore Read by James E. Carson 4.4
The author is considered the first great Irish writer of realist fiction and is said to have been an inspiration for James Joyce. Celibates …

The Custom of the Country

by Edith Wharton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Edith Wharton was a novelist of manners of late 19th Century New York "Society", who spent much of her life in France. In this nov…

Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School

by Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around Ameri…

Life and Adventures of Jack Engle

by Walt Whitman Read by Margaret Espaillat 4.4
This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the worl…

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