Memoirs

A Last Diary

by W. N. P. Barbellion Read by Adam Whybray 5
The final journal of British naturalist Bruce Frederick Cummings, spanning from March 1918 to June 1919. The diary follows on the heels of t…

No Doorway Wide Enough

by Bill Schmalfeldt Read by Bill Schmalfeldt 4.5
It was just about three weeks after his 45th birthday in 2000 when Bill Schmalfeldt was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. In 2007 while wo…

On These Days I Cried

by Carlton Burris 4.7
On These Days I Cried Finding Healing Through Your Grief An audio book by Carlton Burris of Marshall, Texas. Is there a way to make death ea…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte

by Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.1
The author and Napoleon become boyhood friends when they are eight years old in Corsica. They separate when Napoleon is transferred from the…

Fourteen Months in American Bastiles

by Francis Key Howard Read by Katie Riley 5
Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at th…

The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific-Expedition

by Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon and Candido Mariano Da Silva Rondon Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition was the famous survey that took place in 1913-14 to follow the path of the Rio da Dúvida (…

Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee

by Charles Todd Quintard Read by David Wales
Charles Quintard (1824-1898) was an Episcopal priest who, in spite of his pro-Union stance, volunteered to be a chaplain in the Confederate …

Years of My Youth

by William Dean Howells Read by Ted Lienhart
After the Civil War William Dean Howells served for 15 years as Assistant Editor and then Editor of the prestigious 'Atlantic' Magazine. For…

Brief Lives

by John Aubrey Read by Nicole Lee 5
Volume 2 of Aubrey's sparkling gossipy biographical pieces on his contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glim…

A True Picture of Emigration

by Rebecca Burlend Read by Ted Lienhart 4.5
Complete title: "A True Picture of Emigration: or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America; being a full and impartial account o…

Glimpses of Bengal

by Rabindranath Tagore Read by Bhavya 3.9
The book is a selection of letters written by Tagore, in various places in Bengal, India.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys Read by Nicole Lee 3.9
Samuel Pepys was the first Secretary to the Admiralty during the reign of Charles II, instrumental in developing the Royal Navy and witness …

A Long Way from Disney

by Seth Harwood Read by Seth Harwood 4.4
In the second season of A Long Way from Disney, an older (and perhaps wiser) Adam Berkman deals with his own series of relationships, love, …

John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides

by John Paton Read by AletheiaCharis 4
In the third and final installment of his autobiography, John G. Paton tells of his travels through America and Britain speaking about and r…

Thank God For Plan B, Because Plan A Didn't Work

by Michael Mahue Moore Read by Michael Mahue Moore 4.2
I believe that in everyone's life there is “PLAN A” and a “PLAN B”; however, not in the traditional sense as in having a backup plan, but ra…

The Cellar-House of Pervyse

by Mairi Chisholm Read by Expatriate 4.5
Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker were two British nurses and ambulance drivers whose staggeringly heroic efforts during World War I saved co…

Recollections of a Busy Life

by William Forwood Read by DPranitis
Liverpool in the second half of the 19th century was burgeoning with rich merchants and swollen with poor immigrants. It was known variously…

Confessions of Two Brothers

by John Cowper Powys Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Confessions of Two Brothers offers an intimate glimpse into the mind of John Cowper Powys, as he reflects on his beliefs, temperament, and t…

Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum

by Hiram Chase Read by Elaine Webb 3.8
Hiram Chase is a well liked Reverend in a small ministry in Utica. When his mental and physical health deteriorates, he is taken to Utica lu…

Laughter Limited

by Nina Wilcox Putnam Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
When some people write the story of their life it is a sign that they are dead. There are in the motion-picture world also a class of dead …

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