Biography & Autobiography
Saint Benedict
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Frances Alice Forbes
Explore the life and legacy of Saint Benedict of Nursia, a pivotal figure in the history of Christianity and the founder of Western monastic…
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)
Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …
Richard II
Read by Cate Barratt
Jacob Abbott
Richard II offers a detailed exploration of the life and reign of one of England's most enigmatic monarchs. Born in 1367 in Bordeaux, France…
Acres of Diamonds
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Russell Conwell
Acres of Diamonds is a powerful lecture and biography by Russell Conwell, a prominent Baptist minister and the founder of Temple University.…
The Life of Cicero
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Anthony Trollope
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the tu…
The Autobiography of a Thief
Read by Ben Adams
Hutchins Hapgood
I met the ex-pickpocket and burglar whose autobiography follows soon after his release from a third term in the penitentiary. For several we…
Great Inventors and Their Inventions
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Frank Puterbaugh Bachman and Frank P. Bachman
This book is about Great inventors and what they created. It has different stories like Alexander Bell, Wrights, Morse, Gutenberg, and Ediso…
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
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John George Nicolay
John G. Nicolay was Abraham Lincoln’s private White House secretary. With assistant secretary, John Hay, he wrote the two volume definitive …
A Gold Hunter's Experience
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Chalkley J. Hambleton
"Early in the summer of 1860, I had an attack of gold fever. In Chicago, the conditions for such a malady were all favorable. Since t…
Great Artists
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Jennie Ellis Keysor
Great Artists by Jennie Ellis Keysor offers an insightful exploration into the lives and works of some of history's most renowned painters, …
Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams
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Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams lived the American Revolution as the wife of one of its central figures--John Adams. Her family correspondence, published alon…
The Trail of the Hawk
Read by John W. Michaels
Sinclair Lewis
Trail of the Hawk, narrated by Mike Vendetti aka Miketheauctioneer, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own name. It was not…
The Life of Anthony
Read by Matthew James Gray
Athanasius of Alexandria
Anthony (251-356CE) lived in Egypt, and became one of the fathers of Christian desert monasticism. When he was about 18 years old, and havin…
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
Read by Mary Reagan
Nellie Bly
This is a true account by American woman journalist who, in 1889, set out to see whether she could beat the fictional journey in Jules Verne…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle più eccellen…
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife
Read by Sue Anderson
Frances M. A. Roe
"There appeared from the bushes in front of me, and right in the path, two immense gray wolves . . . Rollo saw them and stopped instan…
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb
Read by James K. White
Henry Bibb
Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother …
Queen Victoria
Read by R. S. Steinberg
Giles Lytton Strachey
Queen Victoria by Giles Lytton Strachey offers a revealing portrait of one of history's most iconic monarchs. Strachey, known for his sharp …
My School Days
Read by Cori Samuel
E. Nesbit
A short memoir about the author's school days, serialised in The Girl's Own Paper from October 1896 to September 1897. It includes stories a…
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