Memoirs

Brief Lives Volume II

Read by Nicole Lee


John Aubrey


Volume 2 of Aubrey's sparkling gossipy biographical pieces on his contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glim…

Настоящие мемуары гейши

Read by Татьяна Михалевкина


Ивасаки Минеко


Настоящие мемуары гейши Слишком много тайн окутывает понятие «гейша»… История жизни Минеко Ивасаки, одной из самых легендарных …

Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865

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Ward Hill Lamon


Abraham Lincoln came to the presidency under a heavy shroud of uncertainty, not only about his threatened life but, of course, the very exis…

The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777

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Nicholas Cresswell


Against his family's wishes, the son of an English landowner emigrates to America in 1774 for reasons he won't reveal. His adventures take h…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 02

Read by Gillian Hendrie


Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne and Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne


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

Salt Mines and Castles: The Discovery and Restitution of Looted European Art

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Thomas Carr Howe


"From May 1945 until February 1946, I served as a Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Officer in Germany. During the first four months of…

Космонавт № 34. От лучины до пришельцев

Read by Леонов Андрей


Гречко Георгий


Автор:  Гречко Георгий Название:  Космонавт № 34. От лучины до пришельцев Исполнитель:  Леонов Андрей Жанр:  Биографии и…

Confessions of Two Brothers

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John Cowper Powys


A short self portrait of Powys’ beliefs, temperament and peculiarities which prefigures his later, greater Autobiography. (Summary by Keri F…

Three Accounts of Peterloo

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Francis Archibald Bruton


A companion volume to F.A. Bruton's 'The Story of Peterloo', the full title of this short collection is 'Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewi…

Why Crime Does Not Pay

Read by Ann Boulais


Sophie Lyons


The publishers believe that a picture of a life sketched by a master hand-somebody who stands in the world of crime as Edison does in his fi…

Christmas Under Three Flags

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Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox


This work details personal memories of Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox, adopted granddaughter (acutally grand niece) of Rachel Donelson Jackson, …

A Winter of Content

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Laura Lee Davidson


A charming memoir recounting 10 months spent among the country people of Ontario at the outbreak of the Great War. Resplendent in its descri…

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1664

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Samuel Pepys


Pepys continues to live life to the hilt, juggling extra-marital shenanigans with a complicated homelife, difficulties with staff, power str…

Прощай, оружие!

Read by Балакирев Александр


Хэмингуэй Эрнест


Год выпуска: 2003 Автор: Хэмингуэй Эрнест Исполнитель: Балакирев Александр Жанр: Военные мемуары Издательство: Ardis серия "XX век Зару…

Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee Being His Story…

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Charles Todd Quintard


Charles Quintard (1824-1898) was an Episcopal priest who, in spite of his pro-Union stance, volunteered to be a chaplain in the Confederate …

Henry More Smith: The Mysterious Stranger

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Walter Bates


Sometime in the month of July, 1812, nearly a hundred years ago now, a well dressed, smooth spoken man, less than thirty years of age, made …

In the Old Church Tower

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of In the Old Church Tower by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Octo…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 03

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." - Su…

Civil War Women, North And South

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Various


This recording comprises two narratives. One is by Cora Mitchel who in 1861 was a girl in her mid-teens. Her Unionist family escaped the C…

Six Years at the Russian Court

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Magaretta Eagar


From 1898 to 1904, Irish born Margaretta Eagar was the nanny to Olga (Ольга), Tatiana (Татьяна), Maria (Мария) and Anastasia (Анастасия) Nik…

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