Memoirs

A Rogue's Life

by Wilkie Collins Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
"[T]he story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles Dickens f…

Pioneer Life Among The Loyalists In Upper Canada

by Walter Stevens Herrington Read by David Wales 4.6
What became of the citizens who remained loyal to the Crown when the thirteen British colonies rebelled against England – and won! These Lo…

Army Letters from an Officer's Wife

by Frances M. A. Roe Read by Sue Anderson 4.7
"There appeared from the bushes in front of me, and right in the path, two immense gray wolves . . . Rollo saw them and stopped instan…

Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College

by Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase Read by ashleighjane 4.6
In Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College, the spirited Grace Harlowe returns for another year of academic challenges and personal g…

The Story of My Misfortunes

by Pierre Abélard Read by Martin Geeson 4.8
Autobiographies from remote historical periods can be especially fascinating.Modes of self-presentation vary greatly across the centuries, a…

How I Know God Answers Prayer

by Rosalind Goforth Read by fiddlesticks 4.7
This book is a testimony of how powerful prayer is, how God answers every prayer, even if it is not just how we want it answered. Rosalind G…

Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read by Martin Geeson 4.6
“Thus I have acted; these were my thoughts; such was I.”Rousseau’s lengthy and sometimes anguished dossier on the Self is one of the most re…

Vagabonding Down The Andes

by Harry A. Franck Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Sometime in the latter half of 1911, Harry A. Franck jumped out of a box-car and crossed the Rio Grande, from Laredo. Thus began a journey, …

Wild Wales

by George Borrow Read by Steve Gough 4.7
Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery is a travel book by the English Victorian gentleman writer George Borrow (1803–1881), first pub…

My Life in the South

by Jacob Stroyer Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
My Life in the South is the vivid and touching autobiography of African-American former slave, Jacob Stroyer. It recounts experiences from …

Annie Besant

by Annie Besant Read by timothyFR 4.8
In her autobiography, Annie Besant poignantly writes of her search for the truth of what she believed in, leaving Christianity behind to emb…

You Know Me Al

by Ring Lardner Read by Utek 4.7
Big, fat, dumb, lazy, vain, headstrong and cheap, Jack Keefe is a journeyman pitcher with the Chicago White Sox in the rowdy days of the Dea…

The Golden Age

by Kenneth Grahame Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and originally published in book form in 1895, in L…

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army

by Sarah Emma Edmonds Read by TriciaG 4.6
The “Nurse and Spy” is simply a record of events which have transpired in the experience and under the observation of one who has been on th…

The Country of the Pointed Firs

by Sarah Orne Jewett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achi…

The Life of God in the Soul of Man

by Henry Scougal Read by J L Raimundo 4.7
Henry Scougal was born in Scotland in 1650. The son of the Bishop of Aberdeen, he flourished under rigorous teaching to become Professor of …

The Promised Land

by Mary Antin Read by Bridget Gaige 4.6
Being a Jew in Russia at the end of the 19th century was not easy at all. Jews were persecuted because of their religion. So the Jews found …

Three Girls in a Flat

by Enid Yandell Read by Lee Ann Howlett 4.5
Enid Yandell (October 6, 1870 - June 13, 1934) was an American sculptor who studied with Auguste Rodin and Frederick William MacMonnies. She…

Recollections of Bush Life in Australia

by Henry William Haygarth Read by KirksVoice 4.4
This was written in the mid 1800’s at time when Australia saw an influx of immigration from Europe and when England was sending some prisone…

Eighteen Months in the War Zone

by Kate John Finzi Read by MaryAnn 4.7
In "Eighteen Months in the War Zone," Kate John Finzi offers a poignant memoir of her experiences during a tumultuous period of co…

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