Memoirs

A Journey Round My Room

Read by Steven Watson


Xavier De Maistre


Sentenced to house arrest for forty-two days owing to his participation in a duel, Xavier de Maistre was inspired to write a travel memoir a…

Station Amusements in New Zealand

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


Mary Anne Barker


Station Amusements in New Zealand is a collection of vignettes about life on a sheep station (high country farm) in colonial New Zealand dur…

The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922

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George Mallory


Personal narratives of climbing Mount Everest in 1922-1923. The expeditions did not reach the summit. The northern approach to the mountain…

Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies, Volume I

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Thomas Jefferson


This is the first volume of Thomas Jefferson's public and private writings edited and compiled by his oldest grandson Thomas Jefferson Rando…

Holmes' Own Story

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Herman W. Mudgett


An account written by the infamous serial murderer H. H. Holmes in an attempt to exonerate himself while being tried for numerous crimes in …

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1663

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Pepys


Another jam-packed year for Pepys, making provisions for Tangier, indulging his passion for the theatre, always thoroughly engaged in his re…

A Personal Record

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


Conrad began dictating the series of loose autobiographical sketches that would become 'A Personal Record' in 1911, when he was half way thr…

Reminiscences of My Life in Camp

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Susie King Taylor


Susie King Taylor was a Black nurse in the 33rd United States Colored Troops in the Union Army during the American Civil War, a teacher and …

Brief Lives Volume II

Read by Nicole Lee


John Aubrey


Volume 2 of Aubrey's sparkling gossipy biographical pieces on his contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glim…

Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865

Read by John Greenman


Ward Hill Lamon


Abraham Lincoln came to the presidency under a heavy shroud of uncertainty, not only about his threatened life but, of course, the very exis…

The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777

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Nicholas Cresswell


Against his family's wishes, the son of an English landowner emigrates to America in 1774 for reasons he won't reveal. His adventures take h…

Salt Mines and Castles: The Discovery and Restitution of Looted European Art

Read by TR Love


Thomas Carr Howe


"From May 1945 until February 1946, I served as a Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Officer in Germany. During the first four months of…

Confessions of Two Brothers

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John Cowper Powys


A short self portrait of Powys’ beliefs, temperament and peculiarities which prefigures his later, greater Autobiography. (Summary by Keri F…

Three Accounts of Peterloo

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Francis Archibald Bruton


A companion volume to F.A. Bruton's 'The Story of Peterloo', the full title of this short collection is 'Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewi…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 02

Read by Gillian Hendrie


Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne and Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne


Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." (Sum…

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