Biography & Autobiography
- Voices from the Battlefield
- Criminal Lives: True Stories
- Voices of Social Change
- Voices of Political Change
- Voices of Resilience
- Voices from American History
- Pioneers in Health and Healing
- Adventures in Exploration
Saint Charles Borromeo
Saint Charles Borromeo offers an insightful exploration of the life and legacy of one of the most influential figures in the Catholic Church…
Science and Hypothesis
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912) was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of scien…
Èmile
Emile, or On Education or Émile, or Treatise on Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) was published in 1762 in F…
Representative Men
A series of biographical lectures originally published in 1850. Each chapter is a philosophical treatment of the life of an intellectual. Th…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle più eccellen…
An Explorer in the Air Service
Explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, as recounted in his book Inca Lands, now released on LibriVox at http://librivox.org…
Nehemiah
The Book of Nehemiah is a book of the Hebrew Bible. Told largely in the form of a first-person memoir, it concerns the rebuilding of the wal…
The Autobiography of an Electron
"While many scientific men now understand our place in the universe, we electrons are anxious that every person should know the very im…
Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries
Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778 – 1823) was an Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He is known for his remo…
The History of England, from the Accession of James II
This is chapter 1 of volume 1 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the h…
Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days
This is a short and simple, yet poignant autobiography of Annie Burton, who recounts her early carefree childhood as a slave on a southern p…
Chemical Phenomena in Life
Published in 1911 as part of the "Harper's Library of Living Thought," this volume presents an introduction to the chemistry of ce…
The Mirror of the Sea
The Mirror of the Sea is a collection of autobiographical essays by Joseph Conrad, reflecting on his deep connection to the sea and the life…
The Lepers of Molokai
This is the story of the lepers of Molokai and of the Roman Catholic missionary, Father Damien, who ministered to those who languished in th…
Neighbors
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…
Soren Kierkegaard
The writings listed here represent books about Soren Kierkegaard. A fragment of his work, On the Dedication to "That Single Individual&…
The Facts of Reconstruction
After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justi…
The Meaning of the Glorious Koran
The Koran (Qur'an) is regarded by Muslims as the word of God (Allah) as revealed to the prophet Muhammad. It is divided into 114 chapters (…
Florence Nightingale the Angel of the Crimea
One evening, some time after the great Crimean War of 1854-55, a company of military and naval officers met at dinner in London. They were t…
A Bunch of Everlastings
A collection of brief biographies and the text from scripture that was significant in the life of each. It is biography and devotional Bible…