Memoirs

The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen

by Howard Carter and Arthur C. Mace Read by Availle 4.8
On 26 November 1922, after eight years of work in the Valley of the Kings, archeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen, …

Youth

by Leo Tolstoy Read by Bill Boerst 4.4
Youth is the third installment in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and Boyhood. In this reflective narrative, Tol…

Around the World on a Bicycle

by Thomas Stevens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Thomas Stevens was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle, a large-wheeled Ordinary. His journey started in April 1884 in San Franc…

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

by Olive Gilbert Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the gripping autobiographical account of Sojourner Truths life as a slave in pre-Civil War New York Stat…

Martyred Armenia

by Fa'Iz El-Ghusein Read by Margaret Espaillat 4.9
This is a first hand account of the Armenian Genocide written by a Syrian who had been a Turkish official for three and a half years. His ac…

The Trail of the Tramp

by Leon Ray Livingston Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This book, written by the famous hobo and author, Leon Ray Livingston aka A-No. 1, is built on his own experiences on the road. The first ch…

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World

by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Read by Sibella Denton 4.6
Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, was at one time Ambassador to the Hague, negotiated the second Treaty of Vienna, was a founding gover…

Old Rail Fence Corners

by Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Old Rail Fence Corners is an historical treasure trove containing the stories of the first significant waves of European-American settlers i…

The Friendly Road

by Ray Stannard Baker Read by Sue Anderson 4.9
My grandmother Gertrude received a copy of The Friendly Road for Christmas in 1919. It must have been a special gift book--green leather bin…

Letter from China

by Peter James Froning Read by Peter James Froning 4.9
This is a poignant and irreverent diary of the author's yearlong (2001-2) experience of teaching English to college students in Beijing, Peo…

The Bent Twig

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Read by Bellona Times 4.5
Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by fa…

Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read by Martin Geeson 4.5
“The smallest, the most trifling pleasure that is conveniently within my reach, tempts me more than all the joys of paradise.”Here again is …

Recollections of Imperial Russia

by Meriel Buchanan Read by Jan Moorehouse 4.8
In this memoir, Meriel Buchanan (9-5-1886 to 2-6-1959) links the history of Russia to powerful, lingering memories of her years living there…

Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook

by Maria Montessori Read by Phil Chenevert 4.4
This is the authoritative book written by Montessori to describe her methods. It gives an overview of the Montessori Method as developed for…

In Kent with Charles Dickens

by Thomas Frost Read by Ruth Golding 4.6
By his own admission, Thomas Frost found it hard to make a living from his writing, and no doubt he used the name of Dickens in the title of…

Ruth Hall

by Fanny Fern Read by Deborah Knight 4.6
This is a COMPELLING semi-autobiography of a woman who experienced severe highs and lows! Starting many things at a very young age in life &…

Insurgent Mexico

by John Reed Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of Pa…

Army Life in a Black Regiment

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson Read by FNH 4.6
These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the …

Mother

by Kathleen Norris Read by Megan Kunkel 4.8
Mother by Kathleen Norris explores the profound relationship between a daughter and her mother through the lens of domestic life. As Margare…

Letters from Egypt

by Lucie Duff-Gordon Read by Sibella Denton 4.7
As a girl, Lady Duff-Gordon was noted both for her beauty and intelligence. As an author, she is most famous for this collection of letters …

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