Biography & Autobiography
Mirrors of Moscow
Read by Denis Gagné
Louise Stevens Bryant and Louise Bryant
"Mirrors of Moscow" by Louise Bryant is a collection of journalistic sketches and profiles that examines the political and social …
John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides
Read by AletheiaCharis
John Paton
“Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to…
Rossini
Read by Mozartjr
W. Armine Bevan
A brief summary of the life of the opera king, Rossini. - Summary by Mozartjr
Eminent Doctors: Their Lives and Their Work
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
George Thomas Bettany
Short biographies of doctors who were leaders in their profession. In this collection, we learn about men who developed specialities, of ten…
Caroline the Illustrious
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
William Henry Wilkins
Caroline moved to England from Hanover when her father-in-law became George I and her husband Prince of Wales. She had a tumultuous relation…
Whitman: An Interpretation
Read by Jim Locke
Emory Holloway
"You want to know in a word the sum total of my life philosophy as I have tried to live it and as I have tried to put it in my book. I …
John Hancock
Read by Robert Morel
Lorenzo Sears
This book sheds light on one of the greatest men in the American history, an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Pa…
Robert Browning
Read by Owlivia
G. K. Chesterton
This mystery of the unconscious man, far deeper than any mystery of the conscious one, existing as it does in all men, existed peculiarly in…
A Daughter of the Seine
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Jeanette Eaton
This biography of Madame Roland was written for young adults but can be equally enjoyed by adult readers. Madame Roland was a key figure in …
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Read by Epachuko
Ángel Ruiz De Obregón Y Retortillo and Ángel Ruiz de Obregón y Retortillo
Breve biografía que conmemora los 400 años del descubrimiento del Océano Pacífico para los europeos y que fue ll…
Life and Times of Joseph Warren
Read by Robert Morel
Richard Frothingham, Jr.
Joseph Warren was one of the popular leaders of Boston during the early stage of the American Revolution. He grasped its basis idea of civil…
Stories of the Lives of Noble Women
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
W. H. Davenport Adams
The object of the present volume is to illustrate from the Lives of Noble Women those higher qualities which elevate the character of the se…
Hawthorne
Read by James Hutchisson
Henry James
A brief biographical sketch and critical analysis of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the preeminent writers of the nineteenth-centu…
Cicero and the Fall of the Roman Republic
Read by Ann Boulais
James Leigh Strachan-Davidson
"The purpose of this volume is to tell the story of Cicero's life, and at the same time to set forth from his writings a presentation o…