Memoirs

Freckles

by Gene Stratton-Porter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and peop…

Cloudy Jewel

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Julia Cloud, the oldest--and most responsible--child of her family, helped raise her four siblings due to their mother's long-time illness a…

The Innocents Abroad

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.7
Writer/entertainer Garrison Keillor (A Prairie Home Companion) on “The Innocents Abroad”: “…one of the best selling travel books of all time…

Not Under The Law

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by Emily Grace 4.8
After both of Joyce's parents passed away, her beloved aunt raised her. But when her aunt gets sick and dies, Joyce's world turns upside dow…

The Card

by Arnold Bennett Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017) 4.8
The ‘Card’ in question is Edward Henry Machin - His mother called him ‘Denry’. This light-hearted story is of his rise from humble beginning…

Mary Marie

by Eleanor H. Porter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
A charming 'coming of age' story about a young girl, Mary Marie, whose young life is thrown into turmoil as her parents divorce. As she lead…

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet Jacobs Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.8
Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to …

A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier

by Joseph Plumb Martin Read by Barry Eads 4.7
Joining the Continental Army as a teenager, Joseph Plumb Martin spent the next eight years fighting in the Revolutionary War as an enlisted …

The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

by John S. Mosby Read by Mark F. Smith 4.7
This is not a work of fiction! These are the actual memoirs of a legendary leader of partisans who bedeviled the Union army for years, almos…

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.9
Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte." De Conte …

What Katy Did

by Susan Coolidge Read by Karen Savage 4.8
What Katy Did introduces listeners to the spirited Katy Carr, a young girl with dreams of adventure and a heart full of ambition. Set in the…

The Worst Journey in the World

by Apsley Cherry-Garrard Read by Kevin Green 4.8
The Worst Journey in the World is a memoir of the 1910–1913 British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott. It was written and publ…

By Ox Team to California

by Lavinia Honeyman Porter Read by Sue Anderson 4.7
Imagine a young, twenty-something woman in 1860, reared “in the indolent life of the ordinary Southern girl” (which means she has never lear…

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

by Ulysses S. Grant Read by Jim Clevenger 4.7
In preparing these volumes for the public, I have entered upon the task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether…

The People of the Abyss

by Jack London Read by Peter Yearsley 4.7
Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly …

A Daily Rate

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by TriciaG 4.7
A dark, dreary boardinghouse, with unpalatable meals and slovenly housekeeping is all she can afford. But God will give Celia just what she …

The River War

by Winston S. Churchill Read by Mark F. Smith 4.8
When the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“Guided One”) gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backla…

Thirty Years A Slave

by Louis Hughes Read by James K. White 4.7
Louis Hughes was born a slave near Charlottesville, Virginia to a white father and a black slave woman. Throughout his life he worked mostly…

The Practice of the Presence of God

by Brother Lawrence Read by Kirsten Ferreri 4.9
The Practice of the Presence of God is a collection of letters and transcriptions of conversations, compiled by a disciple of Brother Lawren…

The Pursuit of God

by Aiden Wilson Tozer Read by David Leeson 4.8
"As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." This thirst for an intimate relationship with…

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