Memoirs

Dallam's Travels with an Organ to the Grand Signieur

by Thomas Dallam Read by Sue Anderson 4.3
Queen Elizabeth the First of England, the Grand Turk at Constantinople, and an organ builder named Thomas Dallam—quite a trio. In 1599, E…

From the Darkness Cometh the Light

by Lucy Ann Delaney Read by James K. White 4.5
In From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom Delaney tells the story of how she was born into slavery of her mother--a fr…

First Successful Ascent of Mt. Rainier

by Hazard Stevens Read by Sue Anderson 4.3
Hazard Stevens and P.B. Van Trump, aided by the Indian guide Sluiskin, made the first documented successful ascent of Mt. Rainier on August …

A Woman's Experiences in the Great War

by Louise Mack Read by Expatriate 4.8
An eye-witness account of the fall of Antwerp to the Germans in the opening months of World War I, Mack’s story has passages of extraordinar…

A Japanese Boy

by Shigemi Shiukichi Read by Phil Chenevert 4.5
The life of a Japanese boy in the late 1800's and early 1900's, told simply and beautifully. This isn't about civilizations and governments,…

The Getting of Wisdom

by Henry Handel Richardson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
The Getting of Wisdom tells the story of Laura Rambotham, a 12-year-old girl who is just starting at her boarding school. This is based on H…

Deciphering the Golden Flower

by JJ Semple Read by JJ Semple 4.2
JJ Semple doesn’t just wake up one day and say to himself, “I’m going to crack the coded mysteries in The Secret of the Golden Flower.” He s…

Idle Days in Patagonia

by William Henry Hudson Read by Kevin W. Davidson 4.9
Hudson traveled to Patagonia to study the birds, but shortly upon arrival accidentally shot himself in the knee, requiring a lengthy period …

Behind the Scenes

by Elizabeth Keckley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventua…

Exotics and Retrospectives

by Lafcadio Hearn Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Lafcadio Hearn, born 1850 in Greece, went to Japan when he was 40 years old and became a Japanese citizen only 6 years later. His writings a…

My Mother and I

by Elizabeth Gertrude Stern Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
Elizabeth Stern was two and a half years old, when her family emigrated from Poland to Pittsburgh. My Mother and I is the story of Stern's A…

A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukaw…

by Ukawsaw Gronniosaw Read by TriciaG 4
Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, also known as James Albert, (born ca. 1705 - 1775) was a freed slave and autobiographer. His autobiography is considered…

Travel Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
A collection of short, non-fiction travel memoirs or guides written in, or translated into, English. Material covered might be a museum, a v…

The Humbugs of the World

by P. T. Barnum Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witc…

The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers

by Abraham Tomlinson Read by FNH 4.7
"Perceiving that much of the intrinsic value of these Journals would consist in a proper understanding of the historical facts to which…

Letters of Ulysses S. Grant

by Ulysses S. Grant Read by Jim Clevenger 4.1
Among the national leaders whose names will always hold an honorable place in American history is Ulysses S. Grant, the simple-hearted man a…

I Sold The Moon!

by Barry McArdle Read by Barry McArdle 4.8
Just because it happened, doesn't mean you'll believe it. Take a rollicking ride through the 1970s with the original Moon Man, Barry McArdle…

Letters of John Keats

by John Keats Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
These are the letters of John Keats, as written to family, close friends and others during his brief, eventful years as an artist. (However,…

Broken Escalator

by Christopher Munroe Read by Christopher Munroe 3.9
On October 5th of last year, the escalators at West Edmonton Mall shut down simultaneously due to what was believed to be a series of mechan…

The Autobiography of a Clown

by Isaac Marcosson Read by Lee Smalley 4.8
This "as told to" autobiography of Jules Turnour is based on a popular article that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1909.…

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