Biography & Autobiography

The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

by Thomas Jefferson Read by Nick Bulka 4.9
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, commonly referred to as the Jefferson Bible, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the lat…

Upper Room

by J. C. Ryle Read by Tim Cote 4.7
Ryle became the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool during a volatile time for the Church of England. Ryle was a strong supporter of the evan…

From the Deep Woods to Civilization

by Charles Alexander Eastman Read by Laura Victoria 4.8
From the Deep Woods to Civilization is the sequel to Indian Boyhood. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) gives his account of what it was like to tran…

The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln

by Francis Fisher Browne Read by Bill Boerst 4.8
This detailed biography covers the places in Lincoln's life: Indiana, Illinois, Washington. It also traces his various roles as storekeeper,…

A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba

by Mary Georgiana Caroline Hall Read by Sibella Denton 4.5
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…

Edison, His Life and Inventions

by Frank Lewis Dyer Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage batter…

The End of the Middle Age

by Eleanor Constance Lodge Read by Pamela Nagami 4.6
Eleanor Constance Lodge, (1869-1936), was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from the University of Oxford. In this short sur…

The Autobiography of a Thief

by Hutchins Hapgood Read by Ben Adams 4.7
I met the ex-pickpocket and burglar whose autobiography follows soon after his release from a third term in the penitentiary. For several we…

The History of Mary Prince

by Mary Prince Read by Newgatenovelist 4.7
Mary Prince was born into slavery in the West Indies. As a free woman in England she wrote her memoirs, which sold well and supported and pu…

The History of Genghis Khan

by Jacob Abbott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
This book provides the history of one of the most renowned emperors of all time. The Great Khan. This was a man born Temujin to a clan lea…

Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West

by Cyrus Townsend Brady Read by David Wales 4.5
Brady was a journalist, historian, adventure writer, and Episcopal priest. As a priest he spent some time on the American frontier as a miss…

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans

by Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) 4.6
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …

The Life of Saint Macrina

by St. Gregory of Nyssa Read by A LibriVox Volunteer 4.7
The poignant biography of Saint Macrina, by her brother, Saint Gregory of Nyssa. (The Reader)“The use of the word "philosophy" to …

Saint Francis of Assisi

by Johannes Jorgensen Read by dave7 4.8
Born to a prosperous cloth merchant of Assisi, Francis (1182-1226) lived the typically high-spirited life of a wealthy young man of his day,…

The Treasury of David

by Charles H. Spurgeon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Charles Spurgeon was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among…

Confessions of a Convert

by Robert Hugh Benson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Robert Hugh Benson was the youngest son of Edward White Benson, the Archbishop of Canterbury and his wife Mary. Benson was was a prolific …

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole

by Mary Seacole Read by Cori Samuel 4.4
I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which…

The Ghosts of Piccadilly

by G. S. Street Read by Peter Yearsley 4.7
Nothing spooky or supernatural, but a very personal gathering of gossip, letters, and fragments of biography of famous people who have lived…

History of the Conquest of Mexico

by William H. Prescott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;Round many western islands have I beenWhich bards in fe…

Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers

by Charles Bradlaugh Read by Ted Delorme 4.7
This book presents a brief bio and a summary of important ideas & events in the lives of 23 great philosophers from ancient times throug…

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