Memoirs

Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read by Martin Geeson 4.6
“Thus I have acted; these were my thoughts; such was I.”Rousseau’s lengthy and sometimes anguished dossier on the Self is one of the most re…

Roughing It in the Bush

by Susanna Moodie Read by Moira Fogarty 4.4
'Roughing It In the Bush' is Susanna Moodie's account of how she coped with the harshness of life in the woods of Upper Canada, as an Englis…

The Diary of a Country Parson

by James Woodforde Read by John Greenman 4.6
The Revd. James Woodforde was an English clergyman, best known for his vivid account of parish life in the 18th century. His diary, edited b…

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…

Army Life in a Black Regiment

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson Read by FNH 4.6
These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the …

Letters from Egypt

by Lucie Duff-Gordon Read by Sibella Denton 4.7
As a girl, Lady Duff-Gordon was noted both for her beauty and intelligence. As an author, she is most famous for this collection of letters …

Hospital Sketches

by Louisa May Alcott Read by Aaron Elliott 4.4
Alcott in 1862 served as a nurse in Georgetown, D.C during the Civil War. She wrote home what she observed there. Those harrowing and someti…

Parochial and Plain Sermons

by John Henry Newman Read by Russ Hobbs 5
John Henry Newman's sermons enter the human heart easily and with transformative power. Lucid thinking, beautiful English prose, an integra…

The Bent Twig

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Read by Bellona Times 4.5
Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by fa…

Eighteen Months in the War Zone

by Kate John Finzi Read by MaryAnn 4.7
In "Eighteen Months in the War Zone," Kate John Finzi offers a poignant memoir of her experiences during a tumultuous period of co…

The Story of Cole Younger

by Cole Younger Read by William A Crenshaw 4.5
The Story of Cole Younger offers a firsthand account of the life of one of America's most notorious outlaws. Cole Younger, a veteran of the …

Elsie's Girlhood

by Martha Finley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Elsie's Girlhood follows the journey of Elsie Dinsmore as she navigates the complexities of adolescence and early adulthood. Spanning from t…

Memories of Old Montana

by Con Price Read by garybclayton 4.6
Con Price recalls the 1870s through the 1940s, growing up in Iowa and South Dakota before heading out on a cattle drive into Montana. Never…

Loafing Along Death Valley Trails

by William Caruthers Read by David Wales 4.7
William Caruthers was a retired newspaperman who spent 25 years listening to stories told by the inhabitants of Death Valley. This 1951 book…

Stepping Heavenward

by Elizabeth Prentiss Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Stepping Heavenward is the journal of a girl named Katherine Mortimer. Katy meets a young man who she loves & wants to marry but her mot…

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World

by Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield Read by Sibella Denton 4.6
Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, was at one time Ambassador to the Hague, negotiated the second Treaty of Vienna, was a founding gover…

From Plotzk to Boston

by Mary Antin Read by Sue Anderson 4.7
An intensely personal account of the immigration experience as related by a young Jewish girl from Plotzk (a town in the government of Viteb…

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

by William Makepeace Thackeray Read by mb 4.6
First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel…

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…

Selected Letters of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal

by Saint Jane Frances De Chantal Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572 – 1641) is a Roman Catholic Saint, who founded The Congregation of the Visitation after the death of her…

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