Memoirs
Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad
By Zorra, in the following sketches, is meant a little district in Oxford county, Ontario, some ten miles square, composed of part of East a…
Our New Zealand Cousins
A travelogue of a trip through New Zealand in 1885 with panegyric descriptions of the scenery, elucidations of the progress the country had …
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette
Introduced into the royal household as court reader at the age of 15 and later rising to the office of first lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoin…
Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China
An account by Scottish botanist of his journey to China to discover the secret of producing tea and securing plants for propagation outside…
The Hill
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Hill by Rupert Brooke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011.Rupert Chawner…
Campaigns of Curiosity
Elizabeth Banks was an American journalist who, at about age 23, moved to London. While trying to break into English journalism and to keep …
Travels in Brazil
A well-written and informative first-hand account of a young man's travels within Brazil during the period shortly before Brazil's independe…
A Life Unveiled
A memoir of a young woman, who lived in the late 19th century in the United States. Starting with her pastoral youth and progressing through…
Kidnapped in London
Sun Yat-Sen was the first president of the Republic of China after the brutal Qing government collapsed in 1911. Over a decade earlier, he h…
Familie en kennissen
De schrijver François Haverschmidt is het best bekend van zijn dichtbundel ‘Snikken en Grimlachjes’, dat werd gepubliceerd onder het …
Schetsen uit Amerika
"Schetsen uit Amerika", een Nederlandse vertaling van "American Notes" (vertaler onbekend), is een reisverslag van Charl…
Letters from a Prairie Garden
The "Letters from a Prairie Garden," are genuine letters and not fiction. They went through the mail. An explanatory word about th…
The Red Flower
LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Red Flower by Henry van Dyke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 11, 2012.Dr. H…
There Was a Cherry-Tree
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of There Was a Cherry-Tree by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 1…
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand
Volume II of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, translated by Teixeira de Mattos. This volume covers the period from his return t…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…