Biography & Autobiography
A Waterbiography
Read by Peter Kelleher
Robert C. Leslie
Robert C. Leslie (1826-1901) was an artist and writer who, at an early age fell in love with the sea, the sea of Sail, not of Steam. He desc…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 2: Vaninka
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Alexandre Dumas
The story of Vaninka, generally regarded as the most fictionalized of Dumas’ Celebrated Crimes series, occurs during the short and eccentric…
The Life of Washington, Volume 1
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John James Marshall
If it be true that it takes a great man to interpret the life of a great man then Bushrod Washington made no mistake in the selection of a b…
The Life of Charles G. Finney
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Aaron Merritt Hills
A.M. Hills, theologian and preacher in the Wesleyan holiness tradition, gives us a detailed biography of Charles G. Finney, one of the most …
Life of Edward the Black Prince
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Louise Creighton
Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376) was the eldest son of King Edward III of England. He commanded the vanguard at the Battle of Créc…
Warren Hastings
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
"Warren Hastings" is Chapter IV of Thomas Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays, vol. III. It first appeared in the Edinburgh …
The Story of John Wesley Told to Boys and Girls
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Marianne Kirlew
Marianne Kirlew tells the story of John Wesley, English revivalist and founder of Methodism, in short chapters in simple language and an eng…
Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Written When She Was Eighty
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Hester Lynch Piozzi
Born into the influential Welsh Salusbury family and married to the rich brewer Henry Thrale, Hester Piozzi was associated to the most illus…
The Real Latin Quarter
Read by Bill Boerst
Frank Berkeley Smith
"Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière"--this in my best restaurant French.The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulde…
The True Life Story of Swiftwater Bill Gates
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Iola Beebe
The life of American frontiersman, adventurer, and prospector "Swiftwater" Bill Gates as told by his mother in law. During the K…
Mrs. Shelley
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Lucy Madox Rossetti
"I have to thank all the previous students of Shelley as poet and man--not last nor least among whom is my husband--for their loving an…
A History of the Four Georges, and of William IV, Volume 4
Read by Pamela Nagami
Justin Mccarthy
In Volume IV of this series on the Hanoverian kings, Justin McCarthy and his son, Justin Huntly McCarthy, both Liberal Irish MPs., bring on …
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 2
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Benvenuto Cellini
Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as h…
Biographia Literaria
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark …
The Sainted Queens
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Unknown
A collection of short biographies of six Catholic Queens who became saints. Saint Margaret of Scotland - Saint Elisabeth of Portugal - Saint…
Eighty Years Ashore and Afloat, or, The Thrilling Adventures of Uncle Jethro: Embracing the Remarkable Episodes in a Life of Toil and Danger, on Land and Sea
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E. C. Cornell
Experiences of Jethro Ripley, mainly in the Atlantic coast trade, but including an account of a whaling voyage around Cape Horn. The narrati…
Bismarck and the Origin of the German Empire
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Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke
Despite its brevity, this Little Blue Book #142 by the Oxford historian, Sir F.M. Powicke, provides a valuable overview of the political his…
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2
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Various
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley
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John Gilmary Shea
"It has long been a desideratum to have in English the early narratives, of the discovery and exploration of the Mississippi. Marquette…
Claimants to Royalty
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John Henry Ingram
A compilation of chronicles of the numerous impostors and impostures of kings, queens, and rulers. (Summary by Carmen H)