Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

The Journal of Julius Rodman

Read by Mike Pelton


Edgar Allan Poe


The Journal of Julius Rodman, Being an Account of the First Passage across the Rocky Mountains of North America Ever Achieved by Civilized M…

Tagebuch eines halbwüchsigen Mädchens

Read by Katharina Glowalla


Hermine Hug-Hellmuth


In Form eines Tagebuches wird die Entwicklung des in gehobenen Wiener Verhältnissen aufwachsenden Mädchens Grete Lainer vom elften…

De Kleine Johannes

Read by Bart de Leeuw


Frederik Van Eeden


De Kleine Johannes is een sprookje, waarin de ontwikkeling van kind tot volwassene en de worsteling met de levensraadsels centraal staan. We…

Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji, Version 2)

Read by Lynne T


Murasaki Shikibu


Genji Monogatari, or The Tale of Genji, is a Japanese classic novel from the eleventh century. Supposedly commissioned by members of the Imp…

Marge Askinforit

Read by Nigel Boydell


Barry Pain


A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfu…

The Man Who Found the Truth

Read by Crln Yldz Ksr


Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev


An old man, accused of having murdered his family as a young man, spends a lifetime in prison. With brilliant psychological insight so chara…

Meine Hölle

Read by Petra Zaidi


Jakob Elias Poritzky


Wir folgen dem jüdischen Ich-Erzähler auf der Flucht vor seiner Familie nach Paris, wo er als Verkäufer von Kleinkram seinen …

Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Walt Whitman


This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the worl…

Lebenssucher

Read by heeheekitty


Lily Braun


Lily Braun, geboren als Amalie von Kretschmann, in erster Ehe Lily von Gizycki, (* 2. Juli 1865 in Halberstadt; † 9. August 1916 in Berlin) …

The Purple Land

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William Henry Hudson


In W.H. Hudson’s first novel, an Englishman wandering on horseback across the pampas finds adventure and romance in Uruguay. The full title…

The Adventures of an Ugly Girl

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Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett


“Come, Dora! I shall never be ready, if you don’t make haste. They will be here in ten minutes, and my hair is not half so nice as it ought …

Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 2: Vaninka

Read by John Van Stan


Alexandre Dumas


The story of Vaninka, generally regarded as the most fictionalized of Dumas’ Celebrated Crimes series, occurs during the short and eccentric…

Big Sur

Read by Ben Tucker


Jack Kerouac


This classic of the beatnik era from famous bohemian traveller Jack Kerouac focuses on Jack Dulouz, a thinly veiled Kerouac surrogate, and h…

Curiosities of Street Literature

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Various


This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The c…

A Woman of Genius

Read by Amy Dunkleberger


Mary Hunter Austin


In this 1912 novel, Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) draws inspiration from her own life to tell the story of a gifted woman caught between he…

Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal

Read by Brendan Stallard



Life in the Grey Nunnery was first published in Boston, in 1857 by Edward P. Hood, who was credited as the book's editor. It is likely that …

Within a Budding Grove

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Marcel Proust


"In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" (bowdlerized by Scottish translator Scott Moncrieff as "Within a Budding Grove"…

The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, Part 2

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Charles E. Flandrau


A series of stories written by Judge Charles E. Flandrau "at different times during his long residence in the Northwest, which embrace …

The Rise of David Levinsky

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Abraham Cahan


Coming to New York from the Russian Empire, Abraham Cahan founded the Jewish Daily Forward to help Yiddish-speaking immigrants adjust to lif…

The Secret City

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Hugh Walpole


Written in the first person, The Secret City is a novel in three parts of a journey through post World War I Russia and the Revolution, duri…

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