Memoirs

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse Read by Adrian Praetzellis 4.7
Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha…

Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom

by Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnston, Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnstonandkenneth Darlaston Yearsley and Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnston And Kenneth Darlaston Yearsley Read by Kevin Green 4.8
Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom is the true but little known story of the escape of eight British Prisoners-of-War from a Turkish POW camp durin…

In the Field

by Marcel Dupont Read by FNH 4.6
I have merely tried to make a written record of some of the hours I have lived through during the course of this war. A modest Lieutenant of…

The Dawn of a To-morrow

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by Linda Andrus 4.4
A wealthy London business man takes a room in a poor part of the city.He is depressed and has decided to take his life by going the next day…

C. H. Spurgeon's Prayers

by Charles H. Spurgeon Read by MaryAnn 5
The day on which a volume of C. H. Spurgeon's Pulpit Prayers appears is a day to be desired. Decidedly this selection of the great preacher'…

A Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound

by John R. Jewitt Read by Sue Anderson 4.6
John Jewitt (1783-1821), a blacksmith by trade, spent the years 1803-1806 as a slave among the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, off t…

Eben Holden

by Irving Bacheller Read by Roger Melin 4.7
Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country. Having lost both parents and his home in northern Vermont, orphan Willie Brower is taken in by Eb…

The Rough Riders

by Theodore Roosevelt Read by William Peck 4.6
Theodore Roosevelt's personal account of The Rough Riders, the name affectionately bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one …

A Woman Who Went to Alaska

by May Kellogg Sullivan Read by Karen Commins 4.5
Alaska has only been a state since 1959, and the breathtaking terrain remains mostly unspoiled and natural. In modern times, many of us have…

John Barleycorn

by Jack London Read by Peter Kelleher 4.5
Jack London died at the age of forty. In this autobiographical work, London describes his life as seen through the eyes of John Barleycorn (…

The Story of My Life

by Helen Keller Read by Maria 4.5
The Story of My Life is a personal account of Helen Keller's life, from her early days to those as an adult. It includes how she came to mee…

Daddy-Long-Legs

by Jean Webster Read by Jo Karabasz 4.6
Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were wholly dependent on charity and had to w…

The Maine Woods

by Henry David Thoreau Read by Expatriate 4.6
On August 31, 1846, twenty-nine-year-old Henry David Thoreau left his cabin on Walden Pond to undertake a railroad and steamboat journey to …

California Coast Trails

by Joseph Smeaton Chase Read by Adrian Praetzellis 4.8
In 1911, decades before California's coast Highway 1 was built, an Englishman rode 2000 miles on horseback the length of California, from Me…

The Underground Railroad

by William Still Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
”It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land of bondage.” William Still."Dear Sir:—For mo…

Miss Priscilla Hunter, and My Daughter Susan

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.8
Two shorter stories in one book. In "Miss Priscilla Hunter," the church has been carrying debt for years. It's an embarrassment, a…

Gallipoli Diary

by John Graham Gillam Read by Sue Anderson 4.6
Major John Graham Gillam, British Supply Officer, wrote in his World War I Gallipoli Diary that when he sailed from England for the Dardanel…

The Lure of the Labrador Wild

by Dillon Wallace Read by Tom Weiss 4.7
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…

Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex

by Owen Chase Read by Phil Schempf 4.6
Owen Chase (October 7, 1797 – March 7, 1869) was First Mate of the whale ship Essex, that was struck and sunk by a sperm whale on October 28…

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