Memoirs

A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier

by Joseph Plumb Martin Read by Barry Eads 4.7
Joining the Continental Army as a teenager, Joseph Plumb Martin spent the next eight years fighting in the Revolutionary War as an enlisted …

Letters of a Woman Homesteader

by Elinore Pruitt Stewart Read by Lynne Carroll 4.8
The writer of the following letters is a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for hers…

A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf

by John Muir Read by MaryAnn 4.6
Muir was a preservationist and naturalist. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness…

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

by Ulysses S. Grant Read by Jim Clevenger 4.7
In preparing these volumes for the public, I have entered upon the task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether…

The Card

by Arnold Bennett Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017) 4.7
The ‘Card’ in question is Edward Henry Machin - His mother called him ‘Denry’. This light-hearted story is of his rise from humble beginning…

The Road

by Jack London Read by Barry Eads 4.6
Jack London credited his skill of story-telling to the days he spent as a hobo learning to fabricate tales to get meals from sympathetic str…

Mary Marie

by Eleanor H. Porter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
A charming 'coming of age' story about a young girl, Mary Marie, whose young life is thrown into turmoil as her parents divorce. As she lead…

The Worst Journey in the World

by Apsley Cherry-Garrard Read by Kevin Green 4.8
The Worst Journey in the World is a memoir of the 1910–1913 British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott. It was written and publ…

Anabasis

by Xenophon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave hi…

All of Grace

by Charles H. Spurgeon Read by MaryAnn 4.9
HE WHO SPOKE and wrote this message will be greatly disappointed if it does not lead many to the Lord Jesus. It is sent forth in childlike d…

My Life on the Plains

by George Armstrong Custer Read by texttalker 4.7
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876), one of the most mythologized figures in American history, was an United States A…

'Co. Aytch,' Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment

by Sam R. Watkins Read by Winston Tharp 4.8
Samuel “Sam” Rush Watkins (June 26, 1839 – July 20, 1901) was a noted Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. He is known today f…

Daddy-Long-Legs

by Jean Webster Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 novel by an American writer Jean Webster, written in the form of letters. It follows the protagonist, a young girl…

The People of the Abyss

by Jack London Read by Peter Yearsley 4.7
Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly …

Wise and Otherwise

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.7
Wise and Otherwise follows the journey of Mr. Tresevant, a young and somewhat immature pastor, as he and his spoiled wife arrive in the town…

Interrupted

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.7
Alternately titled Out in the World. Claire Benedict is a capable, responsible, solid young Christian woman. Everyone leans on her for suppo…

The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

by John S. Mosby Read by Mark F. Smith 4.7
This is not a work of fiction! These are the actual memoirs of a legendary leader of partisans who bedeviled the Union army for years, almos…

The Bruised Reed

by Richard Sibbes Read by RoseA 4.7
Richard Sibbes was a Puritan pastor and theologian in the 17th century. His best known work, The Bruised Reed, is based on a Scripture verse…

Introduction to the Devout Life

by Saint Francis de Sales Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
First published in the early 17th century, it has proven its value as a daily spiritual guide and helpful reference for living an authentic …

Days on the Road

by Sarah Raymond Herndon Read by Sue Anderson 4.6
“We had spent almost all our money for toll, ferrying and other expenses on the road. It might be a serious matter to be in a strange place…

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