Biography & Autobiography
Guelphs and Ghibellines: A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1250-1409
Read by Pamela Nagami
Oscar Browning
The High Middle Ages in Italy, 1250-1409, were a time of incessant strife between rival city-states, some the Ghibelline allies of the Holy …
Daniel Boone, Backwoodsman
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C. H. Forbes-Lindsay
Daniel Boone is celebrated in history and legend as one of the foremost pioneers who opened up the wilderness of Kentucky. Famed for his sk…
Från barnaår till silfverhår. Första afdelningen
Read by Måns Broo
Anders Ramsay
"Från barnaår till silfverhår" (From childyears to silverhairs) by Anders Ramsay (1832-1910) is one of the most …
Maria Theresa
Read by Pamela Nagami
James Franck Bright
By the time of his death in 1740, the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI, had done everything possible to secure the succession to the throne of…
Women of Achievement
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Benjamin Griffith Brawley
This volume, published in 1919 by the American Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, opens with an introduction spelling out the important w…
The Story of Garfield
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William Gunion Rutherford
A short biography of the 20th U.S. President. Garfield was raised in humble circumstances on an Ohio farm by his widowed mother and elder br…
Oscar Wilde: A Study
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André Gide
This is a 1905 memoir of one great litterateur’s latter days written by another great litterateur. This recording omits the numerous footnot…
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume III
Read by John Greenman
Albert Bigelow Paine
This work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain for over a hundred years. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April …
The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Volume 1 of 'Scott's Last Expedition' (Version 2)
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Robert Falcon Scott
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 …
Yankee at Molokai
Read by Maria Therese
Eva K. Betz
As a daring soldier in the Union Army, Ira Dutton earned the respect and affection of the men around him. Handsome and affable, he could hav…
The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh (Version 2)
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Margaret Duncan Kelly
The story of Sir Walter Raleigh from his boyhood days to his exploits in Ireland and his unexpected entry into the court of Queen Elizabeth.…
Kaspar Hauser - Beispiel eines Verbrechens am Seelenleben des Menschen
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Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach and Paul Johann Anselm Ritter Von Feuerbach
Kaspar Hauser, der Findling von Nürnberg, ist eine der geheimnisvollsten Personen in der deutschen Geschichte. Seine Herkunft, sein Leb…
Transformed; or, the History of a River Thief, Briefly Told
Read by Curt Walton
Jerry Mcauley
Jerry McAuley gives a testimony of his transformation from one of the wickedest men to ever live to being saved and a life of helping others…
The English Restoration and Louis XIV: From the Peace of Westphalia to the Peace of Nimwegen
Read by Pamela Nagami
Osmund Airy
In this trim volume the British historian, Osmund Airy writes of the period between 1648 and 1679 when Cardinal Mazarin, having concluded th…
The Apostle of Alaska: The Story of William Duncan of Metlakahtla
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John W. Arctander
This is this story of William Duncan, an English missionary, who established a colony among the Tsimshian people of the Pacific Northwest. …
Social Life in England 1750-1850
Read by Pamela Nagami
F. J. Foakes-Jackson
In 1916, the Cambridge historian, F.J. Foakes-Jackson braved the wartime Atlantic to deliver the Lowell Lectures in Boston. In these wide-ra…
Six Radical Thinkers: Bentham, J.S. Mill, Cobden, Carlyle, Mazzini, T.H. Green
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John Maccunn
A radical is a person who holds extreme or unconventional convictions and who advocates fundamental political, economic, or social reforms. …
Being a Boy
Read by Mark Penfold
Charles Dudley Warner
Warner's thoughtful and often humorous memoir of his life as a young farm-boy in Charlemont, Massachusetts. (Introduction by Mark Penfold)
Lincoln, The Lawyer
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Frederick Trevor Hill
This biography of Abraham Lincoln focuses on his practice as a lawyer. (Summary by MaryAnn)