Memoirs

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

by George Washington Plunkitt Read by John W. Michaels 4.9
In this insightful memoir, George Washington Plunkitt, a prominent figure in New York City's Tammany Hall, offers a firsthand account of the…

My Life

by Anton Chekhov Read by Expatriate 4.6
A provincial youth of wealth and noble status refuses to employ himself in the typical occupations of the higher classes, thus acquiring a r…

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

by Alexander Berkman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
In 1892, anarchist and Russian émigré Alexander Berkman was apprehended for the failed assassination of industrialist Henry Cl…

Random Reminiscences of Men and Events

by John D. Rockefeller Read by William Tomcho 4.2
Random Reminiscences of Men and Events offers a unique glimpse into the life and thoughts of John D. Rockefeller, one of the most influentia…

Diary of an S and M Romance

by Dollie Llama Read by Dollie Llama 4
The first-ever adult title on Podiobooks.com. "Diary of an S and M Romance" is the true story of a young widow reclaiming her lif…

Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

by Mary White Rowlandson Read by Matthew Scott Surprenant 4.2
This is the story of Mary Rowlandson’s capture by American Indians in 1675. It is a blunt, frightening, and detailed work with several momen…

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…

Our Old Home

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by Margaret Espaillat 4.4
These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were first published in the form of a …

Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Charles Edward Stowe Read by Michele Fry 4.6
Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896), of Cincinnati, was the most famous female American author of her age, and is said to h…

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…

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 Bent Twig

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Read by Bellona Times 4.3
Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by fa…

The Perfumed Garden

by Sheikh Nefzaoui Read by Alia Makki 3.9
A fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic literature. The book presents opinions on what qualities men and women should have …

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…

His Big Opportunity

by Amy Le Feuvre Read by Adele de Pignerolles 4.6
His Big Opportunity follows the journey of Dudley and Rob, two young boys inspired by the teachings of their Sunday School. They are determi…

The Life-Story of a Russian Exile

by Marie Sukloff Read by Expatriate 4.9
Hero or assassin? Victim or criminal? Marie Sukloff fits no easy category. A young peasant woman who became a political radical and activ…

A Son of the Middle Border

by Hamlin Garland Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
A Son of the Middle Border is Hamlin Garland's evocative memoir that captures the essence of life in the American Midwest during a transform…

War

by Pierre Loti Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud] (1850-1923) was a French naval officer and novelist. The present book is one of his few works of non-fiction, a s…

Tales of a Traveller

by Washington Irving Read by Greg Giordano 4.5
Writing under the pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, Washington Irving chronicled his travels through Europe in the early 1820’s. He wrote of peopl…

Escape From The Confederacy

by Benjamin F. Hasson Read by David Wales 4.6
Benjamin F Hasson was a Union officer in the Civil War of the United States. After being captured by the Confederacy, he escaped from a pris…

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