Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

Arabella Stuart

by George Payne Rainsford James Read by Lynne T 4.5
Lady Arabella Stuart was an English noblewoman at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At one time considered to be a possible successo…

The Custom of the Country

by Edith Wharton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Edith Wharton was a novelist of manners of late 19th Century New York "Society", who spent much of her life in France. In this nov…

Swann's Way

by Marcel Proust Read by Expatriate 4.5
"Swann's Way" is the first of the seven parts of Marcel Proust's great autobiographical novel "In Search of Lost Time." …

Aurora Leigh

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 4.6
Aurora Leigh is a talented young poet determined to pursue her literary ambitions rather than conform to society's expectations. She shuns m…

The Manchester Man

by Isabella Varley Banks Read by Phil Benson 4.5
Jabez Clegg, the Manchester man, floats into this historical novel in 1799, carried downstream by the River Irk in flood. Jabez's rise to co…

Life and Adventures of Jack Engle

by Walt Whitman Read by Margaret Espaillat 4.4
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…

Moving the Mountain

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Read by Elizabeth Klett 4
Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodica…

Reuben Sachs

by Amy Levy Read by Adrian Praetzellis 4.4
Reuben Sachs is a London lawyer whose political aspirations do not include marriage to Judith Quixano, the daughter of a respectable but une…

Martha and Cupid

by Julie M. Lippmann Read by czandra 4.9
Both prequel and sequel to Martha by the day and Making over Martha. This book fills in details about Martha and her family that devoted rea…

Jeremy And Hamlet

by Hugh Walpole Read by David Wales 4.6
Hamlet is Jeremy’s dog. This 1923 book is Hugh Walpole’s second volume in his Jeremy semi-autobiographical trilogy (Jeremy (1919 available a…

The Black-Bearded Barbarian

by Mary Esther Miller Macgregor Read by Edmund Bloxam 4.5
The Black-Bearded Barbarian offers a vivid portrayal of George Mackay, a Presbyterian missionary whose life and work left a lasting impact o…

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens Read by Mongope 4.7
Esta obra narra la vida de David Copperfield desde su infancia hasta la madurez. El padre de David muere seis meses antes de que él n…

Katharine von Bora

by Armin Stein Read by Dory 4.9
This is a fictionalized biography of the wife of the reformer Dr. Martin Luther. In the author's words, he hopes that "people may learn…

The Wheels of Chance

by H. G. Wells Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll follows the adventures of a draper's assistant who, having brought an ancient bicycle, sets off on …

Tono-Bungay

by H. G. Wells Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Tono-Bungay is a realist semi-autobiographical novel. It is narrated by George Ponderevo, a science student who is drafted in to help with t…

Marge Askinforit

by Barry Pain Read by Nigel Boydell 5
A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfu…

Within a Budding Grove

by Marcel Proust 5
In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seve…

Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School

by Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around Ameri…

Michael Flynn CBC Mystery Project

by Lyal Brown and Barbara Brown 4.2
Michael Flynn is a part-time private detective living on his boat in Vancouver. A middle-aged drop-out from UBC Law School, he now lives on …

The Ways of St. Anthony

by Sister M. Josephine Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Saint Anthony of Padua is especially invoked and venerated all over the world as the patron saint for the recovery of lost items and is cred…

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