Memoirs

Football Days

by William Hanford Edwards Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3
Football Days offers a nostalgic glimpse into the early years of American football, capturing the spirit of a sport that was just beginning …

The Exiles of Florida

by Joshua Giddings Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
“The Author of the following work has endeavored to give a faithful record of … the Exiles of Florida. Torn from their native land, their fr…

My Brilliant Career

by Miles Franklin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Sybella: "There is no plot in this story, because there has been none in my life or in any other life which has come under my notice. I…

In Our Convent Days

by Agnes Repplier Read by Mary Schneider 3.9
With her usual wit and charm, Ms. Repplier recalls her days at Eden Hall, the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Torresdale, north of Philadelph…

The Black Prophet

by William Carleton Read by James E. Carson 3.8
The Black Prophet transports listeners to Ireland on the brink of the devastating famine of 1847. Through the eyes of a narrator who intimat…

The Sword of Deborah

by F. Tennyson Jesse Read by MaryAnn 4.7
"The Sword of Deborah" contains the reflections of a woman journalist visiting women working behind the lines in France during Wor…

Extracts from a Diary Kept by the Rev. R. Burrows during Heke's War

by Robert Burrows Read by Phil Benson 4.6
An eye-witness account of the so-called Flagstaff War, fought between Maori warriors, led by Hone Heke, and British troops between March 184…

Far Away and Long Ago

by William Henry Hudson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
William Henry Hudson was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. Hudson was born of U.S. parents living in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Ai…

A Surgeon In Arms

by Robert James Manion Read by David Wales 4.1
Robert James Manion (1881-1943) was a Canadian doctor who volunteered in the Canadian medical corps during World War I. This book is his me…

Little Sister Snow

by Frances Little Read by Cheri Gardner 4.3
Little Sister Snow invites listeners into the enchanting world of early 20th-century Japan through the eyes of Yuki San, a young girl with d…

Great Chicago Fire

by Charles Cole Hine Read by Maria Kasper 3.8
In the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Charles Cole Hine provides a detailed account of the disaster that reshaped a city and i…

Exotics and Retrospectives

by Lafcadio Hearn Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Lafcadio Hearn, born 1850 in Greece, went to Japan when he was 40 years old and became a Japanese citizen only 6 years later. His writings a…

The Lore of the Honey-Bee

by Tickner Edwardes Read by Steve C 3.8
The sun shines — you know it has always shone, changeless as Time itself. With such a faith — unfounded and therefore incontestable — I cam…

Eighty Years and More

by Elizabeth Cady Stanton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the premier movers in the original women’s rights movement, along with Susan B. Anthony, her best friend f…

Liber Amoris

by William Hazlitt Read by Nick Duncan
Liber Amoris is unlike anything Hazlitt wrote and probably like nothing you've come across before. On the face of it it tells the story of H…

Careers of Danger and Daring

by Cleveland Moffett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
In this volume of adventure the author depicts the lives of certain humble modern heroes whose unconscious courage ordinarily goes unnoticed…

Extreme Christianity

by Vic Zarley Read by Vic Zarley 3.5
G. K. Chesterton said, "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried." …

The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton

by Horatio Nelson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Explore the intimate correspondence between one of Britain's most celebrated naval heroes, Horatio Nelson, and his beloved, Lady Hamilton. T…

My First Book

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which…

A Young Girl's Diary

by William James McGlothlin Read by KHand 4.2
The diary of an upper middle class Austrian girl, this book describes her life between the ages of eleven and fourteen. It's a coming of age…

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