Memoirs

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…

East by West

by Sir Henry W. Lucy Read by Ruth Golding 4.7
East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East during …

The Story of a Soul

by Saint Therese Of Lisieux Read by Ann Boulais 4.4
Marie Francoise Therese Martin, affectionately known as 'The Little Flower', was born on January 2, 1873, in Alencon, France to Louis Martin…

Fighting France

by Edith Wharton Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the li…

Ruth Hall

by Fanny Fern Read by Deborah Knight 4.6
This is a COMPELLING semi-autobiography of a woman who experienced severe highs and lows! Starting many things at a very young age in life &…

Spiritual Dialogue Between the Soul, the Body, Self-Love, the Spirit, Humanity,…

by Saint Catherine Of Genoa Read by Ann Boulais 4.8
Saint Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno, born Genoa 1447 – 15 September 1510) is an Italian Roman Catholic saint and mystic, admir…

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 Alpine Path

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
L.M. Montgomery's autobiography highlighting her childhood and early literary career. Published in 1917 after she had written several novels…

Living on Half a Dime a Day

by Sarah Elizabeth Harper Monmouth Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
How to live on 5 cents a day! How to survive financial ruin without losing your house! How to keep to a bare bones budget and still have mon…

The Pastor's Wife

by Elizabeth Von Arnim Read by James E. Carson 4.4
Written by an author born in Australia, grew up in England, married in Germany, and then flew to the United States. A tale about a young wom…

Stepping Heavenward

by Elizabeth Prentiss Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Stepping Heavenward is the journal of a girl named Katherine Mortimer. Katy meets a young man who she loves & wants to marry but her mot…

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 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…

Bullets & Billets

by Bruce Bairnsfather Read by DrPGould 4.7
A front-line view of life in the trenches of the Western Front in the early part of 1914-1915. Told by Lieutenant (later Captain) Bruce Bair…

Kindness

by Frederick William Faber Read by dave7 4.8
Father Frederick William Faber was a beloved spiritual writer, preacher, and superior of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in London. An Oxford…

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.…

Autobiography

by John Stuart Mill Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), British philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influe…

Pictures from Italy

by Charles Dickens Read by Anthony Ogus 4.4
Dickens takes time off his novels to give an account of travels which he and his family undertook in France and Italy. There are vivid descr…

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 …

The Courage of the Commonplace

by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews Read by Roger Melin 4.5
The Courage of the Commonplace tells the poignant story of a young man grappling with his sense of self-worth and identity. On a day marked …

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