Memoirs
Adrift on an Ice-Pan
Read by Sean Michael Hogan
Sir Wilfred Grenfell
This autobiographical work describes the author's harrowing experience caught on a small drifting piece of ice, while crossing a frozen bay …
Memoirs of Chateaubriand 1768 to 1800
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François-René de Chateaubriand
This is the first volume of Chateaubriand's Memoires d'Outre Tombe, in a Victorian translation. It covers the period from his birth, includi…
Land of the Burnt Thigh
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Edith Eudora Kohl
"It will be all right," Ida Mary told her father cheerfully. "It is only for eight months. Nothing can happen in eight months…
The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, Part 2
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Charles E. Flandrau
A series of stories written by Judge Charles E. Flandrau "at different times during his long residence in the Northwest, which embrace …
My Days and Dreams
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Edward Carpenter
Hard to imagine now, but there have been times and places where just wearing sandals could get you labeled as being in rebellion against est…
Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
An review essay of "Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay". The Edinburgh Review, January, 1843. Reprinted in vol. iii of Macaulay'…
Oscar Wilde and Myself
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Lord Alfred Douglas
The first memoir by the poet Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas was written 14 years after the death of Oscar Wilde and in the aftermath of Douglas…
Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire
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Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet
An aristocratic Frenchwoman's personal record of the dazzling extravagance of the Ancien Régime, of the court of Marie Antoinette, of…
Our Search for a Wilderness, An Account of Two Ornithological Expeditions to Ve…
Read by Sue Anderson
William Beebe and Blair Niles
In 1908-1909, Mary Blair Beebe and her husband, C. William Beebe made two private expeditions to Venezuela and British Guiana, exploring and…
Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789
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Arthur Young
Arthur Young, an English agriculturist, set out to write a travelogue on the state of agriculture in France and found himself in the midst o…
The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Volume I
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Horatio Nelson
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was an English flag officer famous …
Jailed For Freedom
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Doris Stevens
A first-hand account of the 1913-1919 campaign of American suffragettes, detailing their treatment at the hands of the courts, and the true …
With The Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt
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Tickner Edwardes
Throughout the First World War, members of the Royal Army Medical Corps provided constant support for British and Allied military troops whe…
Father and Son
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Edmund Gosse
Father and Son (1907) is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled "a study of two temperaments." The book desc…
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
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Eugene Field
Do you love books? No, I mean REALLY love books? These series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibl…
The Book of the Bush
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George Dunderdale
"While the world was young, nations could be founded peaceably. There was plenty of unoccupied country, and when two neighbouring patri…
Pauls Ontwaken
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Frederik Van Eeden
In dit aangrijpende korte werk beschrijft de schrijver en psychiater Frederik van Eeden het leven en met name de dood van Paul, de jongste z…