Memoirs

War Letters From A Young Queenslander

by Robert Marshall Allen Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020) 4.8
Letters from a Brisbane doctor posted to the Western Front from 1914 to December 1915. He tells anecdotes of World War I including stories o…

The Underground Railroad

by William Still Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
"This is one of the most remarkable volumes of the century. Its publication has only been made possible by a combination of circumstanc…

South African Memories

by Lady Sarah Wilson Read by SallyMc 4.6
Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she …

Spiritual Dialogue Between the Soul, the Body, Self-Love, the Spirit, Humanity,…

by Saint Catherine Of Genoa Read by Ann Boulais 4.8
Saint Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno, born Genoa 1447 – 15 September 1510) is an Italian Roman Catholic saint and mystic, admir…

Kept for the Master's Use

by Frances Ridley Havergal Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Kept for the Master's Use offers a glimpse into the life of Frances Ridley Havergal, a dedicated missionary and celebrated hymn writer. Thro…

Tales of a Traveller

by Washington Irving Read by Greg Giordano 4.6
Writing under the pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, Washington Irving chronicled his travels through Europe in the early 1820’s. He wrote of peopl…

Three Years in the Federal Cavalry

by Willard Glazier Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Captain Glazier narrates his experiences as a cavalryman in the Federal Army during the Civil War, from his enlistment in New York State to …

An Explorer in the Air Service

by Hiram Bingham Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, as recounted in his book Inca Lands, now released on LibriVox at http://librivox.org…

My Mark Twain

by William Dean Howells Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) 4.7
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) became fast friends with Mark Twain from the moment in 1869 when Twain strode into the office of The Atlant…

American Notes for General Circulation

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June, 1842. Wh…

Martyred Armenia

by Fa'Iz El-Ghusein Read by Margaret Espaillat 4.9
This is a first hand account of the Armenian Genocide written by a Syrian who had been a Turkish official for three and a half years. His ac…

The Autobiography of George Dewey

by George Dewey Read by Delmar H Dolbier 4.7
Admiral George Dewey, United States Navy, is best remembered for his victory over the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay during the S…

De Profundis

by Oscar Wilde Read by AdamH 4.5
This is a letter written from prison in 1897 by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, in which he recounts how he came to be in prison and cha…

Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days

by Annie L. Burton Read by Michele Fry 4.1
This is a short and simple, yet poignant autobiography of Annie Burton, who recounts her early carefree childhood as a slave on a southern p…

The Pastor's Wife

by Elizabeth Von Arnim Read by James E. Carson 4.4
Written by an author born in Australia, grew up in England, married in Germany, and then flew to the United States. A tale about a young wom…

Autobiography

by John Stuart Mill Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), British philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influe…

Creative Unity

by Rabindranath Tagore Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore talks of the many things he feels is necessary for creativity through joy of unity, he covers many topics like t…

A Shepherd's Life

by William Henry Hudson Read by David Wales 4.5
Hudson wrote this classic work in 1910; it is admiringly mentioned by many other writers. It focuses on the memories of a head shepherd, Ca…

The Facts of Reconstruction

by John R. Lynch Read by Guero 4.9
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…

The Stark Munro Letters

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
"The letters of my friend Mr. Stark Munro appear to me to form so connected a whole, and to give so plain an account of some of the tro…

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