Biography & Autobiography

Story-Lives of Great Musicians

by Francis Jameson Rowbotham • Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Following the plan of his previous volume of Great Authors, the writer has here endeavoured to weave into more or less story form a few of t…

James B. Eads

by Louis How • Read by Barry Eads • 4.4★

Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 p…

Зеленая лампа

by Либединская Лидия • Read by Луганская Лариса

Зеленая лампа «Зеленая лампа» – воспоминания прозаика и литературоведа Лидии Либединской (1921–2006) о своем детстве, родителях…

Николай Первый

by Труайя, Анри • Read by Иванова, Маргарита • 4★

Николай I

Жены русской короны. Книга 1

by Васильева Лариса • Read by Лебедева Валерия

Жены русской короны. Книга 1 Женские судьбы в истории России преисполнены горечи и страданий, а подчас и мистического трагизма. Жена, потер…

Братья Стругацкие

by Прашкевич Геннадий and Володихин Дмитрий • Read by Анатолий Лобоцкий, Александр Феклистов

Братья Стругацкие Писатель «братья Стругацкие» — единый в двух лицах — особая фигура для нескольких поколений нашей интеллигенц…

Recollections of Johannes Brahms

by Albert Hermann Dietrich and Joseph Victor Widmann • Read by mkirkpat

Albert Dietrich, the German composer and conductor, was a friend of Johannes Brahms and the first part of this book includes vivid recollect…

My Musical Life

by Walter Damrosch • Read by LibriVox Volunteers

This is the autobiography of the Prussian-born American conductor Walter Damrosch. It includes dozens of anecdotes about many of the great m…

Dr. Benjamin Rush

by Dr. Benjamin Rush • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 3★

An autobiographical account of Dr. Benjamin Rush, written by himself, containing his views on many subjects including medicine, the American…

Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed

by William Cabell Bruce • Read by Jim Locke

His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…

An Emigrant's Home Letters

by Sir Henry Parkes • Read by Beeswaxcandle • 5★

Letters written by Henry Parkes to his family in Birmingham, England as he made his way to London and then to Sydney. The letters were gathe…

Пушкин. Биографическая дилогия

by Авенариус Василий • Read by Иванова Маргарита • 5★

Пушкин. Биографическая дилогия Биографическая дилогия "Пушкин" - центральное произведение в наследии знаменитого беллетриста конц…

Хроника сердца

by Бурков Георгий • Read by Воробьёва Ирина

Хроника сердца   Замечательный русский актер Георгий Бурков оставил большое литературное наследие, в том числе массу записных книжек и…

Мудрость чудака, или Смерть и преображение Жан-Жака Руссо

by Фейхтвангер Лион • Read by Герасимов Вячеслав • 5★

"Мудрость чудака" известного немецкого писателя Лиона Фейхтвангера - роман о великом просветителе Жан Жаке Руссо. В романе изображ…

Просто Чехов

by Бычков Юрий • Read by Чубарова Елена

Просто Чехов Юрий Александрович Бычков - искусствовед (член Союза Художников), драматург (член Союза Театральных Деятелей), заслуженный раб…

Дневник

by Нагибин Юрий • Read by Сергей Чонишвили

Юрий Нагибин «Дневник» «Дневник» - десятисерийная радиоверсия последней книги Юрия Нагибина.  «Мои запис…

J.S. Bach

by Albert Schweitzer • Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Second volume of an analysis of Johann Sebastian Bach's life and musical compositions, and of the artistic, philosophical, and religious wor…

A Life of St. John

by George Ludington Weed • Read by LibriVox Volunteers

This is a thorough treatment of the Apostle John whose life is intertwined with that of Christ, as one of the inner core and as the disciple…

Lapérouse

by Ernest Scott • Read by Barbara Baker • 4.7★

Biography of the eighteenth century French navigator Lapérouse. - Summary by Barbara Baker

Great Captains Unveiled

by B. H. Liddell Hart • Read by Pamela Nagami • 5★

"Great Captains Unveiled" by the eminent military historian Sir Basil Liddell Hart comprises the biographies of six commanders who…