Memoirs

Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

by Anthony Trollope Read by Jessica Louise 4.3
Anthony Trollope's autobiography will delight you whether or not you've read (or listened to) any of his many works. His honest if self-depr…

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

by William Makepeace Thackeray Read by mb 4.6
First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel…

Wild Wales

by George Borrow Read by Steve Gough 4.7
Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery is a travel book by the English Victorian gentleman writer George Borrow (1803–1881), first pub…

Memories of Old Montana

by Con Price Read by garybclayton 4.6
Con Price recalls the 1870s through the 1940s, growing up in Iowa and South Dakota before heading out on a cattle drive into Montana. Never…

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris

by Benjamin Randell Harris Read by gkeeling 4.7
The Recollections of Rifleman Harris offers a vivid firsthand account of a British infantryman’s experiences during the tumultuous Napoleoni…

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

by Giacomo Casanova Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This is the first of five volumes. - Giacomo Casanova (1725 in Venice – 1798 in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Vene…

Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Black Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness. The title page o…

My Life in the South

by Jacob Stroyer Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
My Life in the South is the vivid and touching autobiography of African-American former slave, Jacob Stroyer. It recounts experiences from …

Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College

by Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase Read by ashleighjane 4.6
In Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College, the spirited Grace Harlowe returns for another year of academic challenges and personal g…

The Underground Railroad

by William Still Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
”It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land of bondage.” William Still."Dear Sir:—For mo…

Steep Trails

by John Muir Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
A collection of Muir's previously unpublished essays, released shortly after his death. "This volume will meet, in every way, the high …

Stepping Heavenward

by Elizabeth Prentiss Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Stepping Heavenward is the journal of a girl named Katherine Mortimer. Katy meets a young man who she loves & wants to marry but her mot…

Campaigning With Grant

by Horace Porter Read by David Wales 4.8
In the last year of the American Civil War, Horace Porter served as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant, then commander of all the armi…

The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott

by Robert Falcon Scott Read by Steve Gough 4.9
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 …

In Kent with Charles Dickens

by Thomas Frost Read by Ruth Golding 4.5
By his own admission, Thomas Frost found it hard to make a living from his writing, and no doubt he used the name of Dickens in the title of…

Ruth Hall

by Fanny Fern Read by Deborah Knight 4.6
This is a COMPELLING semi-autobiography of a woman who experienced severe highs and lows! Starting many things at a very young age in life &…

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

by Isabella L. Bird Read by Availle 4.5
Isabella Lucy Bird was a 19th century English traveller, writer, and natural historian. She was a sickly child, however, while she was trave…

The Diary of a Provincial Lady

by E. M. Delafield 4.6
“Notice, and am gratified by, large clump of crocuses near the front gate. Should like to make whimsical and charming reference to these and…

Thomas Wingfold, Curate

by George MacDonald Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Republished in modern times as "The Curate's Awakening". A young man (Thomas Wingfold) "enters the church" through no re…

Farthest North

by Fridtjof Nansen Read by Sharon Riskedahl 4.6
Farthest North chronicles the remarkable journey of Fridtjof Nansen and his crew aboard the ship Fram, as they venture into the uncharted Ar…

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