Biography & Autobiography

Five Years of My Life

by Alfred Dreyfus Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French Army was court martialed in 1894 on a trumped up charge of treason and condemned to life impr…

Just Me

by Pearl White Read by Pamela Krantz 4.5
Perhaps the first memoir written by a film celebrity, Pearl White's Just Me gives a first-person account of the actress' rise to stardom. Wh…

De Profundis

by Oscar Wilde Read by Aaron Elliott 4.3
This short work of Wilde's was written during his two year incarceration for "gross indecency". This work is a letter which sorts …

Bacon

by Richard William Church Read by Bill Boerst 4.3
This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days and progresses to his relationships with Que…

Hero Tales from American History

by Theodore Roosevelt Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The purpose of this book "is to tell in simple fashion the story of some Americans who showed that they knew how to live and how to die…

History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688

by David Hume Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…

The Biography of a Prairie Girl

by Eleanor Gates Read by Teresa Bauman 3.9
This book is a wonderful way to learn about how the prairies were years ago, but you will hardly feel you are learning because you will be c…

From the Darkness Cometh the Light

by Lucy Ann Delaney Read by James K. White 4.5
In From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom Delaney tells the story of how she was born into slavery of her mother--a fr…

The Art of Money Getting

by P. T. Barnum Read by Jill Preston 4.4
Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman, and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebra…

The Autobiography of Goethe

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
This Autobiography of Goethe has a lengthy introduction and short biography of Goethe's life by Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and was translate…

Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous

by Sarah Knowles Bolton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
These characters have been chosen from various countries and from varied professions, that the youth who read this book may see that poverty…

A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukaw…

by Ukawsaw Gronniosaw Read by TriciaG 4
Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, also known as James Albert, (born ca. 1705 - 1775) was a freed slave and autobiographer. His autobiography is considered…

The Trial of Oscar Wilde

by William James McGlothlin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
In 1895 Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years' hard labor. This account of his two trials was compiled fro…

The Training of a Forester

by Gifford Pinchot Read by KHand 4.3
Written by a forester, this book looks at the definition of "forest", what the life of a forester entails, discusses the forest se…

Sherman’s Military Lessons Of The American Civil War

by William Tecumseh Sherman Read by David Wales 4
This LibriVox recording comprises chapter 25 (Conclusion – Military Lessons Of The War) of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memo…

Mozart

by Friedrich Kerst Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His name is one of the most recognizable names in history and one of the most enduring of composers. At age 5, this…

The Lives of the Queens of England

by Agnes Strickland Read by Ann Boulais 4.3
The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by he…

The Story of Geronimo

by Jim Kjelgaard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Geronimo (1829 – 1909) was a prominent leader of the Bedonkohe Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States for their expansion in…

Karl Marx

by Harold J. Laski Read by Phil Benson 3.9
Born in Manchester in 1893, Harold Laski was a leading figure in the left-wing of British socialism in the first half of the 20th century. A…

My Mother and I

by Elizabeth Gertrude Stern Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
Elizabeth Stern was two and a half years old, when her family emigrated from Poland to Pittsburgh. My Mother and I is the story of Stern's A…

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