LibriVox Audio Books Catalog (Page 7)

Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at th…

Across the Plains in 1844

Read by Carol Pelster

Catherine Sager Pringle

The Sager family, including seven children, set out on the Oregon trail in 1844. Accidents and disease made it a dangerous trip, and both …

Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61

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Abner Doubleday

Now that the prejudices and bitter partisan feeling of the past are subsiding, it seems a fitting time to record the facts and incidents con…

Across Mongolian Plains: A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest'

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Roy Chapman Andrews

An account of a 1918 journey to Northern China by famed adventurer/paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews. Andrews, who was the inspiration for …

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom

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Ellen Craft

Ellen and William Craft were a married couple who escaped from slavery in 1848 when Ellen disguised herself as a white, literate man and Wil…

Football Days: Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball

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William Hanford Edwards

A book reminiscent of the days when football was gaining popularity in America. (summary by Ian Hatley)

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 Enormous Room

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E. E. Cummings

"For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found."He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps.He was …

Narrative of the Suffering and Defeat of the North-Western Army, Under General …

Read by James E. Carson

William Atherton

This memoir dating from 1812ff, but only published in 1840s is a strikingly profound contrast with our modern materialism and comfort. It is…

Life of Chopin

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Franz Liszt

Chopin was a romantic era Polish composer. This work is a memoir by Liszt who knew Chopin both as man and artist. This memoir gives a unique…

Från barnaår till silfverhår. Första afdelningen

Read by Måns Broo

Anders Ramsay

"Från barnaår till silfverhår" (From childyears to silverhairs) by Anders Ramsay (1832-1910) is one of the most …

Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

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John Keats

These are the letters of John Keats, as written to family, close friends and others during his brief, eventful years as an artist. (However,…

A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie

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Joseph Benjamin Polley

Whether written in camp, in hospital, or in hospitable home, the letters tell a plain, unvarnished, and true story of the observations and e…

The Elephant Man and other reminiscences

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Frederick Treves

In 1884, Professor Treves saw Joseph Merrick (known as the "Elephant Man") in a shop across the road from the London Hospital. Bei…

With the Empress Dowager of China

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Katharine Carl

Through the eyes of an artist, With the Empress Dowager of China provides a glimpse of life in the Chinese Imperial Court, unseen by any oth…

Being a Boy

Read by Mark Penfold

Charles Dudley Warner

Warner's thoughtful and often humorous memoir of his life as a young farm-boy in Charlemont, Massachusetts. (Introduction by Mark Penfold)

Old Hampshire Vignettes

Read by David Wales

Mary Elizabeth Hawker

Lanoe Falconer is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 - 1908). Her works, though few, were well received. She …

The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Volume 1 of 'Scott's Last Expedition' (Ver…

Read by Steve Gough

Robert Falcon Scott

Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy – but also a mythic adventure story which has …

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