Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Eve’s Diary (version 2)
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Eve's Diary is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and in…
Stalky & Co.
Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling published Stalky & Co. in 1899. Set at an English boarding school in a seaside town on the North Devon coast. (The town,…
Memorias de un loco
Read by Epachuko
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Ingenioso cuento en forma de diario en el que seremos testigos del progresivo descenso a la locura de un funcionario ruso. Al principio se p…
Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (version 2)
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Andrew Lang
The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history o…
Oblomov
Read by Kevin W. Davidson
Ivan Goncharov
Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the nove…
Chicot the Jester
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
This sequel to Dumas' “Marguerite de Valois” begins four years after the sudden death of King Charles IX and succession of his brother Henry…
Der Grüne Heinrich (zweite Fassung)
Read by Hans Hafen
Gottfried Keller
Der grüne Heinrich von Gottfried Keller ist ein teilweise autobiographischer Roman, der neben Goethes Wilhelm Meister und Stifters Nach…
The Bishop's Apron
Read by Lee Smalley
W. Somerset Maugham
"Canon Spratte saw himself as he thought others might see him: mediocre, pompous, self-assertive, verbose." Maugham could have add…
Satan's Diary
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
"Satan's Diary", Andreyev's last work, was completed by the great Russian a few days before he died in Finland, in September, 1919…
Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance, a short volume, published by Sheldon & Co., NY in 1871, is Mark Twain's third …
Boyhood
Read by Bill Boerst
Leo Tolstoy
Boyhood is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, published in a literary journal …
Jacob Faithful
Read by NoelBadrian
Frederick Marryat
Rebelling against the career chosen for him by his wealthy family, Frederic Marryat joined the Royal Navy in 1806 at the age of 14. He first…
The Autobiography of Methuselah
Read by Matthew Reece
John Kendrick Bangs
A satirical look at early biblical events from the point of view of someone who was there to witness most of them: the oldest man in recorde…
Castle Rackrent
Read by NoelBadrian
Maria Edgeworth
"One of the most inspired chronicles written in English" was the verdict of William Butler Yeats on the novel Castle Rackrent by M…
Vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón
Read by Tux
Vicente Espinel
Las «Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón» (1618) son una novela picaresca, provista de muchos elementos …
The Vicar's Daughter
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
George MacDonald
This is the third book of the 'Marshmallow' trilogy. It is a fictional autobiography written by Ethelwyn Percivale, or 'Wynnie'. Her father …
Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House
Read by Bridget Gaige
Harriet E. Wilson
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…
Último día de un reo de muerte
Read by Mongope
Victor Hugo
Víctor Hugo escribió esta obra a raíz de ver a un verdugo ensayando con la guillotina para la ejecución del d&ia…
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Read by James K. White
James Weldon Johnson
Johnson's only novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, was originally published anonymously in 1912. It is a fictional novel written …
The Last Day of a Condemned
Read by Alisson Veldhuis
Victor Hugo
A man who has been condemned to death writes down his cogitations, feelings and fears while he is waiting for his execution. He does not bet…