Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

Within a Budding Grove

by Marcel Proust 5
In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seve…

Moving the Mountain

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Read by Elizabeth Klett 4
Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodica…

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…

A Dweller on Two Planets

by Fredrick Spencer Oliver Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
A channeled autobiography of a spirit calling himself Phylos the Thibetan. The setting is Atlantis with a first person account of Atlantean…

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…

A Superfluous Woman

by Emma Francis Brooke Read by Bruce Pirie 4.4
Published anonymously in 1894, “A Superfluous Woman” quickly became one of the most widely read of the “New Woman” novels that appeared at t…

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…

Lazarillo de Tormes

by William James McGlothlin Read by Tux 4.5
La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades (más conocida como Lazarillo de Tormes) es una novela española…

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…

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…

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, …

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…

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 …

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 …

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…

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 …

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 …

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…

Louis Lambert

by Honoré de Balzac Read by Don W. Jenkins 3.9
Louis Lambert is an 1832 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Études philosop…

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…

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