Biography & Autobiography

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans

by Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …

Martin Luther

by Carl E. Koppenhaver Read by Danielle Cartwright 4.7
This short, engaging volume summarizes the life of a priest who, intending to spark a lively academic debate by nailing 95 theses on a churc…

Letters on an Elk Hunt

by Elinore Pruitt Stewart Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This is a sequel to Letters of a Woman Homesteader in which Elinore Rupert (Pruitt) Stewart describes her arrival and early years on a Burnt…

The Life and Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa

by Unknown Read by Ann Boulais 4.7
Saint Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno, born Genoa 1447 – 15 September 1510) is an Italian Roman Catholic saint and mystic, admir…

Life in a Tank

by Richard Haigh Read by William A Crenshaw 4.1
Richard Haigh was an Infantry lieutenant in the 2nd Royal Berkshire Infantry Regiment serving in the Somme area in 1916. Shortly after Tanks…

Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages

by George Hodges Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Though these stories of the lives of twenty saints and heroes of the faith, we have an introduction to the history of the church from 3rd ce…

Pope Pius the Tenth

by Frances Alice Forbes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Explore the life and legacy of Pope Saint Pius X, a pivotal figure in the Catholic Church during the early 20th century. Born Giuseppe Melch…

The Romance of Missionary Heroism

by John C Lambert and John C. Lambert Read by David Leeson 4.7
The title page gives this book the subtitle, “True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of missionaries with uncivilized …

The Normans in European History

by Charles Homer Haskins Read by Pamela Nagami 4.8
Wherever their ships took them, the Normans (Northman) were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston …

The Red Battle Flyer

by Manfred Von Richthofen Read by Tom Weiss 4.4
Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918), also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with t…

The Story of a Soul

by Saint Therese Of Lisieux Read by Ann Boulais 4.4
Marie Francoise Therese Martin, affectionately known as 'The Little Flower', was born on January 2, 1873, in Alencon, France to Louis Martin…

Cyropaedia

by Xenophon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Cyropaedia (or Cyropedia) is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, written in the early 4th century BC by the Athenian gentle…

The Travels of Ibn Batuta

by Ibn Battuta Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Ibn Battuta (1304 – ca. 1369), was a Moroccan explorer. Over a period of thirty years, Ibn Battuta visited most of the known Islamic world a…

The Right Way to Do Wrong

by Harry Houdini Read by Lee Ann Howlett 4.6
In The Right Way to Do Wrong, legendary illusionist Harry Houdini takes listeners on a fascinating journey into the world of crime and decep…

The Massacres of the South

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.3
The Massacres of the South is a stark exploration of violence and crime in the tumultuous history of the southern regions of France. In this…

Wild Animals I Have Known

by Ernest Thompson Seton Read by Ernest Thompson Seton 4.9
A BOOK THAT CHANGED AMERICA... Ernest Thompson Seton was an influential naturalist, and a sometime professional hunter and trapper. Much of…

The Life of Saint Columba

by Frances Alice Forbes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Saint Columba (521 – 597) was an Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity in present-day Scotland. He founded the imp…

Meditaciones

by Marcus Aurelius Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
El emperador romano Marco Aurelio además de ser recordado por su buen gobierno, ha pasado a la posteridad por esta obra singular&iacu…

Heroes Every Child Should Know

by Hamilton Wright Mabie Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Heroes Every Child Should Know is a curated collection that introduces young listeners to the lives of remarkable figures from various cultu…

Indian Child Life

by Charles Alexander Eastman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The author was raised as an American Indian and describes what it was like to be an Indian boy (the first 7 chapters) and an Indian Girl (th…

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