Memoirs
Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams, Vol. 1
Read by Sue Anderson
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams lived the American Revolution as the wife of one of its central figures--John Adams. Her family correspondence, published alon…
The Lure of the Labrador Wild
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Dillon Wallace
The Lure Of The Labrador Wild is a account of a expedition by Leonidas Hubbard, an adventurer and journalist to canoe the system Naskaupi Ri…
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Vol. 2
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Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova (April 2, 1725 in Venice – June 4, 1798, in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, wr…
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
Read by Sue Anderson
Frances M. A. Roe
"There appeared from the bushes in front of me, and right in the path, two immense gray wolves . . . Rollo saw them and stopped instan…
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave
Read by James K. White
Henry Bibb
Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother …
Fifty Years in Chains; or The Life of an American Slave
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Charles Ball
This is the story of Charles Ball, an American slave who was born in 1780 and remained a slave for fifty years thereafter. Ball told his sto…
The Cruise of the Snark
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Jack London
The Cruise of the Snark (1913) is a memoir of Jack and Charmian London's 1907-1909 voyage across the Pacific. His descriptions of "surf…
My School Days
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E. Nesbit
A short memoir about the author's school days, serialised in The Girl's Own Paper from October 1896 to September 1897. It includes stories a…
Toussaint L’Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography
Read by James K. White
John Relly Beard
François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803) rose to fame in 1791 during the Haitian struggle for independence. In this revol…
A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba
Read by Sibella Denton
Mary Georgiana Caroline Hall
In 1881, Mrs. Cecil Hall's brother went to Manitoba to farm. In 1882, she went out for a visit of some two months, and followed that visit w…
Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους (The Apology of Socrates in Ancient Greek)
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Plato
Ο Πλάτωνας ήταν σπουδαίος Έλληνας φιλόσοφος και συγγραφέας (427 π.Χ. - 347 π.Χ.), ο γνωστότερος μαθητής του Σωκράτη. Ο Πλάτων έγραψε την Απο…
Recollections of Life in Ohio, from 1813-1840
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William Cooper Howells
Recollections of Life in Ohio is the autobiography of William Cooper Howells (1807-1894), father of the American novelist William Dean Howel…
The Humbugs of the World
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P. T. Barnum
P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witc…
Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865
Read by Sue Anderson
Sarah Raymond Herndon
“We had spent almost all our money for toll, ferrying and other expenses on the road. It might be a serious matter to be in a strange place…
'Co. Aytch,' Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
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Sam R. Watkins
Samuel “Sam” Rush Watkins (June 26, 1839 – July 20, 1901) was a noted Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. He is known today f…
Canyons of the Colorado
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John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colora…
The Underground Railroad, Part 2
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William Still
"This is one of the most remarkable volumes of the century. Its publication has only been made possible by a combination of circumstanc…
Confessions, volumes 5 and 6
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"She was more to me than a sister, a mother, a friend, or even than a mistress, and for this very reason she was not a mistress; in a w…
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán, Vol. 2
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John Lloyd Stephens
The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood…
Selected Letters of Ludwig van Beethoven
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
A selection of Beethoven's letters from the compilation by Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800-1877) and Ludwig Nohl (1831-1885), and transl…