Memoirs

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…

The Story of a Soul

by Saint Therese Of Lisieux Read by Ann Boulais 4.4
Marie Francoise Therese Martin, affectionately known as 'The Little Flower', was born on January 2, 1873, in Alencon, France to Louis Martin…

The Bent Twig

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Read by Bellona Times 4.5
Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by fa…

Recollections of Imperial Russia

by Meriel Buchanan Read by Jan Moorehouse 4.8
In this memoir, Meriel Buchanan (9-5-1886 to 2-6-1959) links the history of Russia to powerful, lingering memories of her years living there…

The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran Read by Mark F. Smith 4.7
The prophet Al Mustafa, before leaving the city where he has been living twelve years, stops to address the people. They call out for his wo…

Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read by Martin Geeson 4.5
“The smallest, the most trifling pleasure that is conveniently within my reach, tempts me more than all the joys of paradise.”Here again is …

Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance

by Robert M. Pirsig Read by James Purefoy 4.5
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is the story of a motorcycle journey across America, a meditation on values and the concept of Qua…

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

by Thomas De Quincey Read by Martin Geeson 4.4
“Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty Opium!”Though apparently presenting the reader with a collage of poignant memori…

Living on Half a Dime a Day

by Sarah Elizabeth Harper Monmouth Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
How to live on 5 cents a day! How to survive financial ruin without losing your house! How to keep to a bare bones budget and still have mon…

South African Memories

by Lady Sarah Wilson Read by SallyMc 4.6
Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she …

The Life of Honorable William F. Cody

by William Frederick Cody Read by Barry Eads 4.7
The life and adventures of Honorable William F. Cody--Buffalo Bill--as told by himself, make up a narrative which reads more like romance th…

Swann's Way

by Marcel Proust Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Swann's Way introduces readers to the intricate world of Marcel Proust's monumental work, In Search of Lost Time. This first volume unfolds …

Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians

by Fanny Kelly Read by TriciaG 3.8
"Narrative of my captivity among the Sioux Indians: with a brief account of General Sully's Indian expedition in 1864, bearing upon eve…

From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket

by John Peele Read by Lee Smalley 4.7
"... I have decided to write an account of a few of the many adventures and dangers that befell me while making my way, practically wit…

Kindness

by Frederick William Faber Read by dave7 4.8
Father Frederick William Faber was a beloved spiritual writer, preacher, and superior of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in London. An Oxford…

Across Mongolian Plains

by Roy Chapman Andrews Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
An account of a 1918 journey to Northern China by famed adventurer/paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews. Andrews, who was the inspiration for …

The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise

by Pierre Abélard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Heloise was a strong-willed and gifted woman who was fluent in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and came from a lower social standing than Abelard. …

The Cruise of the Snark

by Jack London Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The Cruise of the Snark (1913) is a memoir of Jack and Charmian London's 1907-1909 voyage across the Pacific. His descriptions of "surf…

A Gold Hunter's Experience

by Chalkley J. Hambleton Read by Sue Anderson 4.2
"Early in the summer of 1860, I had an attack of gold fever. In Chicago, the conditions for such a malady were all favorable. Since t…

In Kent with Charles Dickens

by Thomas Frost Read by Ruth Golding 4.6
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…

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