Memoirs
The Wound Dresser
Read by R. S. Steinberg
Walt Whitman
The Wound Dresser is a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington by Walt Whitman during the War of the Rebellion to The New…
Tom Brown's School Days
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Thomas Hughes
Tom Brown's Schooldays is a novel by Thomas Hughes first published in 1857. The story is set at Rugby School, a public school for boys, in t…
Army Life in a Black Regiment
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the …
The Underground Railroad, Part 3
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William Still
"Never before has the working of the Underground Railroad been so thoroughly explained. Here we have in complete detail the various met…
The Life Of Charlotte Brontë Volume 2
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Charlotte Bronte was a British author, the eldest of the three famous Bronte sisters who have become standards of English literature. She is…
The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines
Read by William Tomcho
Isabel Anderson
Isabel Anderson has written a most interesting travelogue of Hawaii and The Philippines. Actually it is more of a history lesson. Anyone wit…
The Life of Honorable William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill The Famous Hunter,…
Read by Barry Eads
William Frederick Cody
The life and adventures of Honorable William F. Cody--Buffalo Bill--as told by himself, make up a narrative which reads more like romance th…
Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave
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Isaac Mason
Isaac Mason was born into slavery. As a young man, he escaped to freedom and made a life for himself. An intelligent man, he gave lectures o…
My Life in the South
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Jacob Stroyer
My Life in the South is the vivid and touching autobiography of African-American former slave, Jacob Stroyer. It recounts experiences from …
Eine Reise in das Innere der Insel Formosa
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Karl Theodor Stöpel
Eine Reise in das Innere der Insel Formosa und die erste Besteigung des Niitakayama (Mount Morrison) Weihnachten 1898, so der vollständ…
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Version 2)
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Benjamin Franklin
In Benjamin Franklin's lifetime, he kept good record of his life and travels, and although Franklin was never a president, he still plays a …
Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex
Read by Phil Schempf
Owen Chase
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…
The Life of Apollonius of Tyana
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Flavius Philostratus
Apollonius of Tyana (ca. 40-120 AD) was a Greek Pythagorean philosopher and teacher. He hailed from the town of Tyana in the Roman province …
Insurgent Mexico
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John Reed
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…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 01
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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne
The author and Napoleon become boyhood friends when they are eight years old in Corsica. They separate when Napoleon is transferred from the…
Der Grüne Heinrich (zweite Fassung)
Read by Hans Hafen
Gottfried Keller
Der grüne Heinrich von Gottfried Keller ist ein teilweise autobiographischer Roman, der neben Goethes Wilhelm Meister und Stifters Nach…
Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839
Read by James K. White
Frances Anne Kemble and Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble
Fanny Kemble was a British actress who married mega-plantation owner, Pierce Butler of Georgia. During her marriage she kept journals of eve…
The Recollections of Rifleman Harris
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Benjamin Randell Harris
The recollections of a British infantryman who served in the British army during the Napoleonic Wars. (Summary by Graham Keeling)
The Facts of Reconstruction
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John R. Lynch
After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justi…
Pictures from Italy
Read by Anthony Ogus
Charles Dickens
Dickens takes time off his novels to give an account of travels which he and his family undertook in France and Italy. There are vivid descr…