Memoirs

The Courage of the Commonplace

by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews Read by Roger Melin 4.5
The Courage of the Commonplace tells the poignant story of a young man grappling with his sense of self-worth and identity. On a day marked …

Childhood

by Leo Tolstoy Read by Expatriate 4.6
Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian l…

A Shepherd's Life

by William Henry Hudson Read by David Wales 4.5
Hudson wrote this classic work in 1910; it is admiringly mentioned by many other writers. It focuses on the memories of a head shepherd, Ca…

Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Charles Edward Stowe Read by Michele Fry 4.6
Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896), of Cincinnati, was the most famous female American author of her age, and is said to h…

Vanished Arizona

by Martha Summerhayes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
"This is the lively autobiography of Martha Summerhayes, the wife of an officer in the American Army. Here, she tells many stories abou…

Creative Unity

by Rabindranath Tagore Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore talks of the many things he feels is necessary for creativity through joy of unity, he covers many topics like t…

Boyhood

by Leo Tolstoy Read by Bill Boerst 4.4
Boyhood offers a poignant glimpse into the formative years of one of literature's greatest minds, Leo Tolstoy. This autobiographical novel c…

The Petticoat Commando

by Johanna Brandt Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.6
In introducing the English version of this book I venture to bespeak a welcome for it, not only for the light which it throws on some little…

War Letters From A Young Queenslander

by Robert Marshall Allen Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020) 4.8
Letters from a Brisbane doctor posted to the Western Front from 1914 to December 1915. He tells anecdotes of World War I including stories o…

You Know Me Al

by Ring Lardner Read by Utek 4.7
Big, fat, dumb, lazy, vain, headstrong and cheap, Jack Keefe is a journeyman pitcher with the Chicago White Sox in the rowdy days of the Dea…

Around the World on a Bicycle

by Thomas Stevens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Thomas Stevens was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle, a large-wheeled Ordinary. His journey started in April 1884 in San Franc…

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

by Alexander Berkman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
In 1892, anarchist and Russian émigré Alexander Berkman was apprehended for the failed assassination of industrialist Henry Cl…

Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph

by Frances Sheridan Read by Rachel Lintern 4.6
Sidney and Cecilia are best childhood friends who are forced to part for 5 years. In that interval, Sidney Bidulph - an undoubtedly good and…

Random Reminiscences of Men and Events

by John D. Rockefeller Read by William Tomcho 4.2
Random Reminiscences of Men and Events offers a unique glimpse into the life and thoughts of John D. Rockefeller, one of the most influentia…

A Little Swiss Sojourn

by William Dean Howells Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.4
A charming brief account of a two months' autumnal stay on the shores of the Lake of Geneva. Howells, who was there with his family travelin…

Walking In Faith

by Tim Greenwood Read by Tim Greenwood 4.8
My open-heart surgery had failed and the doctor’s told me that nothing more could be done. At age 45, I was diagnosed with terminal heart d…

The Life-Story of a Russian Exile

by Marie Sukloff Read by Expatriate 4.9
Hero or assassin? Victim or criminal? Marie Sukloff fits no easy category. A young peasant woman who became a political radical and activ…

Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams

by Abigail Adams Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
Abigail Adams lived the American Revolution as the wife of one of its central figures--John Adams. Her family correspondence, published alon…

Child Life in Colonial Days

by Alice Morse Earle Read by Susan Morin 4.4
The accounts of old-time child life gathered for this book are wholly unconscious and full of honesty and simplicity, not only from the atti…

Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

by Mary White Rowlandson Read by Matthew Scott Surprenant 4.2
This is the story of Mary Rowlandson’s capture by American Indians in 1675. It is a blunt, frightening, and detailed work with several momen…

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