Memoirs

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…

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…

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 …

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…

Men, Women and Guns

by Sapper Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
World War I stories, as told through the eyes of someone who was there, but leavened with humour and an eye for the ridiculous side of human…

Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read by Martin Geeson 4.5
“The smallest, the most trifling pleasure that is conveniently within my reach, tempts me more than all the joys of paradise.”Here again is …

From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket

by John Peele Read by Lee Smalley 4.7
"... I have decided to write an account of a few of the many adventures and dangers that befell me while making my way, practically wit…

Ruth Hall

by Fanny Fern Read by Deborah Knight 4.6
This is a COMPELLING semi-autobiography of a woman who experienced severe highs and lows! Starting many things at a very young age in life &…

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 Book of Divine Consolation

by Blessed Angela Of Foligno Read by Ann Boulais 5
The Blessed Angela of Foligno, T.O.S.F., (c. 1248 – 4 January 1309) was a Christian author, Franciscan tertiary and mystic. She was noted no…

Afloat on the Ohio

by Reuben Gold Thwaites Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife,…

Fighting France

by Edith Wharton Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the li…

Memoir of Jane Austen

by James Edward Austen-Leigh Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
"The Memoir of my Aunt, Jane Austen, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the …

The Journal of a Disappointed Man

by W. N. P. Barbellion Read by Adam Whybray 4.7
The journal of British naturalist Bruce Frederick Cummings, spanning from his early childhood through to his early death from complications …

The Courage of the Commonplace

by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews Read by Roger Melin 4.5
The Courage of the Commonplace tells the poignant story of a young man grappling with his sense of self-worth and identity. On a day marked …

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…

In Kent with Charles Dickens

by Thomas Frost Read by Ruth Golding 4.6
By his own admission, Thomas Frost found it hard to make a living from his writing, and no doubt he used the name of Dickens in the title of…

The Trail of the Tramp

by Leon Ray Livingston Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This book, written by the famous hobo and author, Leon Ray Livingston aka A-No. 1, is built on his own experiences on the road. The first ch…

Twenty Years at Hull House

by Jane Addams Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Jane Addams was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer settlement worker…

The New Life

by Dante Alighieri Read by Mary J 4.6
One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and…

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