Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire

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Thomas Wallace Knox


An engaging travelogue first published in 1886, written conversationally among two youths and their guide and mentor. Subtitle: Adventures o…

Marion, the Story of an Artist's Model

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Onoto Watanna


In this Asian/Canadian perspective on "foreignness," Marion (the protagonist) eventually leaves the cruelty of racial discriminati…

Doctor Johnson: A Play

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A. Edward Newton


The life of Doctor Johnson, told in his own words and (mostly) those of others around him. "Anyone with a teaspoonful of imagination ca…

Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling

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Bertha Von Suttner


Die Waffen Nieder, in English: Lay Down Your Arms is a fictional biography, which describes four wars from the perspective of a soldier's wi…

Idomen, or The Vale of Yumuri

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Maria Gowen Brooks


Idomen (1843) is the creative-nonfiction memoir of the beautiful and brilliant American poetess Maria Gowen Brooks, who was compared in the …

Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief

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James Fenimore Cooper


Take a fascinating journey from France to America through the "eyes" of a pocket handkerchief. She marvels at the vastness of the …

Catherine: A Story

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William Makepeace Thackeray


The wild and raw adventures of Catherine Hayes, who was burned for murder at Tyburn in 1742 - Summary by Mark Leder

Jean-Christophe In Paris

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Romain Rolland


After fleeing to Paris, Jean-Christophe finds himself in great financial difficulty and takes up music teaching in wealthy families. As for …

Tattlings of a Retired Politician

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Forrest Crissey


"The letters (non-partisan) of Hon. William Bradley, Ex-Governor and former veteran of practical politics, written to his friend and pr…

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 1

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The novel is in eight books. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape …

Die Geschichte meines Zeitgenossen

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Vladimir Korolenko


Poetische Beschreibung der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse in der russischen Provinz des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts (mit teilweise au…

Het leven van Johannes Wouter Blommesteyn - deel 2

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Adriaan Loosjes Pzn.


Na de beschrijving van de ideale Nederlandse man uit de 17de eeuw (Maurits Lijnslager) en de ideale Nederlandse vrouw uit het midden van de …

Het leven van Johannes Wouter Blommesteyn - deel 1

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Adriaan Loosjes Pzn.


Na de beschrijving van de ideale Nederlandse man uit de 17de eeuw (Maurits Lijnslager) en de ideale Nederlandse vrouw uit het midden van de …

Het Leven van Hillegonda Buisman - deel 2

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Adriaan Loosjes Pzn.


Een levensbeschrijving van de ideale Hollandse vrouw uit het midden van de 17de eeuw. Deel 2: In dit deel maakt Hillegonda aanstalten om te …

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 2

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


This is the second half of the novel by Goethe (the first half, Volume 1, has been recorded separately).It describes the completion of Meist…

Don Sebastian; or, The House of the Braganza: An Historical Romance, Volume 1

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Anna Maria Porter


Romantic history of the fictional Don Sebastian, which was suggested to the author by a plaque commemorating a mysterious "Portuguese s…

Kibun Daizin; or, From Shark-Boy to Merchant Prince

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Gensai Murai


This is the story of a brave, skillful and ambitious boy who sets out to become the wealthiest man of Japan. He succeeds in doing just that …

Rulers of Kings: A Novel

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Gertrude Atherton


When a child is born, its temperament and character are unknown. The effects of nature versus nurture, of heredity and of circumstance are a…

Het leven van Johannes Wouter Blommesteyn - deel 4

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Adriaan Loosjes Pzn.


Na de beschrijving van de ideale Nederlandse man uit de 17de eeuw (Maurits Lijnslager) en de ideale Nederlandse vrouw uit het midden van de …

La punyalada. Novela Montanyenca

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Marian Vayreda


La novel·la narra l'enfrontament entre dos joves a l'Alta Garrotxa catalana de mitjans del segle XIX. El conflicte arrossega tota la …

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