Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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…

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 …

Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

by Harriet E. Wilson Read by Bridget Gaige 4.5
Frado is a colored girl, living in the USA a few years before the Civil War. She is abandoned by her own white mother in the house of the Be…

Benigna Machiavelli

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Read by Winnifred Assmann 4.8
In between "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) and Herland (1915), feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) wrote and published thi…

Katharine von Bora

by Armin Stein Read by Dory 4.9
This is a fictionalized biography of the wife of the reformer Dr. Martin Luther. In the author's words, he hopes that "people may learn…

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the second and final novel by Anne Brontë, is concerned with the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, …

The Ways of St. Anthony

by Sister M. Josephine Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Saint Anthony of Padua is especially invoked and venerated all over the world as the patron saint for the recovery of lost items and is cred…

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…

Eliza

by Barry Pain Read by Nigel Boydell 4.7
A gentle, yet deliciously humourous series of brief anecdotes, that follow the mundane, though surprisingly hazard strewn lives of our rathe…

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 …

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…

Beatrice

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Michele Eaton 4.1
Beatrice is a lonely twenty-two year old woman. After saving Geoffrey's life, they fall in love. However, Geoffrey is married. In addition, …

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 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…

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011) 4.3
Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It is widely held to…

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…

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…

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 …

Arabella Stuart

by George Payne Rainsford James Read by Lynne T 4.5
Lady Arabella Stuart was an English noblewoman at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At one time considered to be a possible successo…

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