Memoirs

Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the An…

by Francis Bond Head Read by Sue Anderson 4.6
“Galloped on with no stopping, but merely to change horses until five o’clock in the evening—very tired indeed, but . . . saw fresh horses i…

A Journal from Japan

by Marie Stopes Read by Expatriate 4.4
Marie Stopes was a highly controversial scientist and activist in her era, campaigning for radical new views of love-based marriage, birth c…

Notes of a War Correspondent

by Richard Harding Davis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Notes of a War Correspondent offers a vivid glimpse into the life of a journalist navigating the tumultuous landscapes of war. Richard Hardi…

The New-York Gardener

by P. Agricola Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
A series of twelve letters from a proud father to a son who has just bought his own farm. The author instructs "my dear son" not t…

Behind the Scenes

by Elizabeth Keckley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventua…

Our Cats and All About Them

by Harrison Weir Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Englishman Harrison Weir organized the first cat show in England in 1871. In 1887 he founded the National Cat Club and was its first Pre…

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…

The San Francisco Calamity

by Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The first half of this book describes the devastating earthquake that hit San Francisco in 1906, and the subsequent destruction caused by fi…

My Trip Abroad

by Charlie Chaplin Read by Chuck Williamson 4.6
"A steak and kidney pie, influenza and a cablegram. There is the triple alliance that is responsible for the whole thing."So begin…

The Enormous Room

by E. E. Cummings Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
"For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found."He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps.He was …

An Englishwoman's Love-Letters

by Laurence Housman Read by Esther 4
An Englishwoman's Love-Letters offers an intimate glimpse into the heart and mind of a woman whose private correspondence reveals the depth …

Growth of a Soul

by August Strindberg Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright who has had many of his works read into LibriVox by volunteers. From his earliest work, Str…

Exotics and Retrospectives

by Lafcadio Hearn Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Lafcadio Hearn, born 1850 in Greece, went to Japan when he was 40 years old and became a Japanese citizen only 6 years later. His writings a…

On A Donkey's Hurricane Deck

by Robert Pitcher Woodward and R. Pitcher Woodward Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
"A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours - starting…

The Mother and the Child

by Maria Montessori Read by Edith van der Have-Raats 4.4
In this insightful lecture from 1915, renowned educational reformer Maria Montessori explores the profound relationship between mothers and …

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

by Giacomo Casanova Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Giacomo Casanova (April 2, 1725 in Venice – June 4, 1798, in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, wr…

The Life of Samuel Johnson

by James Boswell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, edito…

A Surgeon In Arms

by Robert James Manion Read by David Wales 4.1
Robert James Manion (1881-1943) was a Canadian doctor who volunteered in the Canadian medical corps during World War I. This book is his me…

Five Years of My Life

by Alfred Dreyfus Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French Army was court martialed in 1894 on a trumped up charge of treason and condemned to life impr…

An American in the Making

by Marcus Eli Ravage Read by Sue Anderson 4.6
“The sweat-shop was for me the cradle of liberty. . . It was my first university.” Attending lectures and the New York theatre at night; by …

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