Memoirs

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

by Thomas De Quincey Read by Martin Geeson 4.4
“Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty Opium!”Though apparently presenting the reader with a collage of poignant memori…

The Backwoods of Canada

by Catharine Parr Traill Read by Esther 4.5
The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of settlers to cultivate all the mental resources of a superi…

The Truth about the Titanic

by Archibald Gracie Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Colonel Archibald Gracie was the first survivor of the sinking of the Titanic to die, and this first-hand account was published posthumously…

Elizabeth and her German Garden

by Elizabeth Von Arnim Read by ashleighjane 4.6
Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, first published in 1898; it was very popular and frequently reprinted dur…

Remarkable Incidents and Modern Miracles Through Prayer and Faith

by G. C. Bevington Read by G. C. Bevington 4.7
G.C. Bevington was a holiness Methodist itinerant preacher who was based in Kentucky but traveled far and wide across America in the 1920s. …

Memories of Old Montana

by Con Price Read by garybclayton 4.6
Con Price recalls the 1870s through the 1940s, growing up in Iowa and South Dakota before heading out on a cattle drive into Montana. Never…

Four Weeks in the Trenches

by Fritz Kreisler Read by FNH 4.5
Four Weeks in the Trenches offers a firsthand account of the harrowing experiences faced by soldiers on the Eastern Front during World War I…

Thoughts on Art and Life

by Leonardo da Vinci Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is a compilation of the thoughts on art, science and life of Leonardo da Vinci, translated by Maurice Baring and edited by Lewis Einst…

The Englishwoman in America

by Isabella L. Bird Read by Sibella Denton 4.4
Isabella Bird travels abroad in Canada and the United States in the 1850s. As an Englishwoman and a lone female, she travels as far as Chica…

Recollections of Life in Ohio

by William Cooper Howells Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
Recollections of Life in Ohio is the autobiography of William Cooper Howells (1807-1894), father of the American novelist William Dean Howel…

Hospital Sketches

by Louisa May Alcott Read by Aaron Elliott 4.4
Alcott in 1862 served as a nurse in Georgetown, D.C during the Civil War. She wrote home what she observed there. Those harrowing and someti…

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan Read by Joy Chan 4.6
Translated into over 100 languages, The Pilgrim's Progress is one of the most famous classics of literature. It is an allegorical novel, des…

The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate

by Eliza P. Donner Houghton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the "westering fever" of the 1840s. After becoming…

The Paradise, or Garden of the Holy Fathers

by Palladius Read by ancientchristian 4.8
The Desert Fathers were early Christian hermits, ascetics, and monks who mainly lived in the Scetes desert of Egypt. The most famous was St.…

Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War…

Glengarry School Days

by Ralph Connor Read by Bruce Pirie 4.7
With international book sales in the millions, Ralph Connor was the best-known Canadian novelist of the first two decades of the Twentieth C…

The White Heart of Mojave

by Edna Brush Perkins Read by Sue Anderson 4.5
"The White Heart of the Mojave" recounts a 1920's adventure "in the wind and sun and big spaces" of Death Valley by two …

Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance

by Robert M. Pirsig Read by James Purefoy 4.5
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is the story of a motorcycle journey across America, a meditation on values and the concept of Qua…

My School Days

by E. Nesbit Read by Cori Samuel 4.6
A short memoir about the author's school days, serialised in The Girl's Own Paper from October 1896 to September 1897. It includes stories a…

Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb

by Henry Bibb Read by James K. White 4.8
Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother …

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