Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Último día de un reo de muerte
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Victor Hugo
Víctor Hugo escribió esta obra a raíz de ver a un verdugo ensayando con la guillotina para la ejecución del d&ia…
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Read by James K. White
James Weldon Johnson
Johnson's only novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, was originally published anonymously in 1912. It is a fictional novel written …
The Last Day of a Condemned
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Victor Hugo
A man who has been condemned to death writes down his cogitations, feelings and fears while he is waiting for his execution. He does not bet…
The Adventures of Roderick Random
Read by Arthur Krolman
Tobias Smollett
I am Roderick Random. This is the contemporary story of my struggle against the adversity of orphan-hood, poverty, press gangs, bloody duels…
Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving
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Washington Irving
Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with…
In the Bishop's Carriage
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Miriam Michelson
Nancy 'Nance' Olden, a young and very pretty woman, is an accomplished liar and thief. Raised in a horrific orphanage, called the Cruelty by…
Tagebuch einer Verlorenen
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Margarete Böhme
Die junge Thymian schreibt episodenhaft über ihr Schicksal in Tagebuchform: Gesellschaftskritisch prangert sie darin das schwere Los je…
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel…
Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge ist ein 1910 veröffentlichter Roman in Tagebuchform von Rainer Maria Rilke - sein einziger …
A Rogue's Life
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Wilkie Collins
"[T]he story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles Dickens f…
The Forty-Five Guardsmen
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Alexandre Dumas
The sequel to "Chicot the Jester" and final book of the "Valois Romances." This story begins six years after the famed &…
Heimskringla: The Stories of the Kings of Norway, Called The Round World
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Snorri Sturleson
Heimskringla (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈheimsˌkʰriŋla]) is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Ice…
Leave it to PSmith
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P. G. Wodehouse
Freddie Threepwood and his uncle are in difficulties. Freddie wants a thousand pounds to start a bookmaker’s business and to marry Eve, whil…
Studies in the Art of Rat-Catching
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Henry C. Barkley
This book is often described as an instruction manual on the subject of rat-catching. It does indeed contain a good deal about rats, ferrets…
Victory: An Island Tale
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Joseph Conrad
Recollections of the life of Axel Heyst, one-time manager of the liquidated Tropical Belt Coal Company in a fictitious island in the Pacific…
Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition
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Horatio Alger, Jr.
Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition deals with the grit and determination of Grant, a 15 year old farmer's boy whose father is dea…
Irish Idylls
Read by James E. Carson
Jane Barlow
Irish Idylls is a collection of short stories about Irish peasantry during the 19th Century. Ms Jane Barlow, an Irish lass, having, unbeliev…
Mary Cary, Frequently Martha
Read by Jan MacGillivray
Kate Langley Bosher
"My name is Mary Cary. I live in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum. It does. The orp…
The Black-Bearded Barbarian
Read by Edmund Bloxam
Mary Esther Miller Macgregor
A fictionalized biography of George Mackay (1844-1901), an influential Presbyterian missionary in northern Taiwan. (Summary by Edmund Bloxam…
Childhood (version 2)
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Leo Tolstoy
Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian l…