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Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 05

Read by Gillian Hendrie


Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne


Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 06

Read by Gillian Hendrie


Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne


Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4

Read by John Burlinson


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 …

Irish Wit and Humor

Read by James E. Carson


Various


Excerpted anecdotes from the biographies of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell, relating humorous snippets of politics in 18th and 19th ce…

Explorers and Travellers

Read by William Tomcho


Adolphus W. Greely


“Explorers and Travellers” is a collection of short biographies of some of America’s intrepid explorers. Adolphus W. Greely writes brief but…

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was devise…

John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs

Read by Peter Kelleher


Jack London


Jack London died at the age of forty. In this autobiographical work, London describes his life as seen through the eyes of John Barleycorn (…

Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress

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Frances Burney


The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find…

Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph

Read by Rachel Lintern


Frances Sheridan


Sidney and Cecilia are best childhood friends who are forced to part for 5 years. In that interval, Sidney Bidulph - an undoubtedly good and…

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

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Alexander Berkman


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

Memoirs of a Country Doll

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Mary Curtis


A doll tells the story of her adventuresome life in rural England. This story, written by an 11 year old girl in the style of a dolls autob…

Woman on the American Frontier

Read by Bridget Gaige


William Worthington Fowler


Many books describe the role of men during American history. However, at the same time, women did much: comforted, fought, helped, raised ch…

Hidden Treasures

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Harry A. Lewis


"Some succeed while others fail. This is a recognized fact; yet history tells us that seven-tenths of our most successful men began lif…

Robert Harris The Ghost



The Ghost:  Robert Harris' thriller read by Douglas Hodge 1/10.  A professional ghost writer takes on an assig…

The Modern Scottish Minstrel

Read by Chairlie


Charles Rogers


Subtitled "Songs of Scotland of the Past Half-Century, with Memoirs of the Poets, and Sketches and Specimens in English Verse of the Mo…

Post Mortems Two: Mere Mortals: Medico-Historical Essays

Read by David Wales


Charles Maclaurin


This 1925 collection of extensive essays (a second book following the first of similar title) comprises well written biographies of a few fa…

A Book of Scoundrels

Read by Greg Lewin


Charles Whibley


An ironic history of British criminals, mostly pre-Victorian pickpockets, highwaymen and thieves. Here we meet Moll Cutpurse the Queen of th…

Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs

Read by David Wales


William Tecumseh Sherman


This LibriVox recording comprises three chapters from American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. The chapters deal with…

Queen Victoria

Read by R. S. Steinberg


Giles Lytton Strachey


Lytton Strachey’s first great success, and his most famous achievement, was "Eminent Victorians" (1918), a collection of four shor…

Great Englishwomen

Read by Laura Caldwell


M. B. Synge


Great Englishwomen is a collection of biographies of some of the greatest women in England's history. Women who were leaders of their countr…

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