Memoirs
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
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…
Civil War Women
Read by David Wales
Various
This recording comprises two narratives. One is by Cora Mitchel who in 1861 was a girl in her mid-teens. Her Unionist family escaped the C…
The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell
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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…
Brief Lives
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…
A Winter of Content
Read by KevinS
Laura Lee Davidson
A charming memoir recounting 10 months spent among the country people of Ontario at the outbreak of the Great War. Resplendent in its descri…
Recollections of Abraham Lincoln
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…
Why Crime Does Not Pay
Read by Ann Boulais
Sophie Lyons
The publishers believe that a picture of a life sketched by a master hand-somebody who stands in the world of crime as Edison does in his fi…
Travels in Brazil
Read by KevinS
Henry Koster
A well-written and informative first-hand account of a young man's travels within Brazil during the period shortly before Brazil's independe…
The Mysterious Stranger
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Walter Bates
Sometime in the month of July, 1812, nearly a hundred years ago now, a well dressed, smooth spoken man, less than thirty years of age, made …
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
Read by Phil Benson
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…
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Pepys
Pepys' diary continues with his trademark engaging frankness, as he jockeys for favour, criticises his colleagues on the Navy Board for thei…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - Su…
Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee
Read by David Wales
Charles Todd Quintard
Charles Quintard (1824-1898) was an Episcopal priest who, in spite of his pro-Union stance, volunteered to be a chaplain in the Confederate …
A Wheel Within A Wheel
Read by Anne Fletcher
Frances E. Willard
Frances Willard was an influential campaigner and educator for social reforms, temperance and women's education, suffrage and empowerment, a…
Memories of the Civil War
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Henry B. James
Henry B James enlisted in the Union Army at the age of 20, and fought in many of the key battles of the Civil War. Thirty years later, he wr…