Memoirs

Notes of a War Correspondent

by Richard Harding Davis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Notes of a War Correspondent offers a vivid glimpse into the life of a journalist navigating the tumultuous landscapes of war. Richard Hardi…

The New-York Gardener

by P. Agricola Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
A series of twelve letters from a proud father to a son who has just bought his own farm. The author instructs "my dear son" not t…

Behind the Scenes

by Elizabeth Keckley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventua…

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

by Benvenuto Cellini Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as h…

Our Cats and All About Them

by Harrison Weir Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Englishman Harrison Weir organized the first cat show in England in 1871. In 1887 he founded the National Cat Club and was its first Pre…

Child Life in Colonial Days

by Alice Morse Earle Read by Susan Morin 3.9
The accounts of old-time child life gathered for this book are wholly unconscious and full of honesty and simplicity, not only from the atti…

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

by George Washington Plunkitt Read by John W. Michaels 4.9
In this insightful memoir, George Washington Plunkitt, a prominent figure in New York City's Tammany Hall, offers a firsthand account of the…

Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush

by Susanna Moodie Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
As a middle class Englishwoman Moodie did not particularly enjoy "the bush", as she called it. She and her husband moved to Bellev…

My Trip Abroad

by Charlie Chaplin Read by Chuck Williamson 4.6
"A steak and kidney pie, influenza and a cablegram. There is the triple alliance that is responsible for the whole thing."So begin…

The San Francisco Calamity

by Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The first half of this book describes the devastating earthquake that hit San Francisco in 1906, and the subsequent destruction caused by fi…

The Way of Holiness

by Samuel Logan Brengle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Samuel Logan Brengle was a commissioner in the Salvation Army. His books are known for the practicality, joyfulness and authenticity. His li…

An Englishwoman's Love-Letters

by Laurence Housman Read by Esther 4
An Englishwoman's Love-Letters offers an intimate glimpse into the heart and mind of a woman whose private correspondence reveals the depth …

The Life of Samuel Johnson

by James Boswell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, edito…

On A Donkey's Hurricane Deck

by Robert Pitcher Woodward and R. Pitcher Woodward Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
"A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours - starting…

Common Sense in the Household

by Marion Harland Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
This is a practical guide to running a household in 1883. Marion Harland not only walks us through a number of important topics such as how …

Growth of a Soul

by August Strindberg Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright who has had many of his works read into LibriVox by volunteers. From his earliest work, Str…

The Mother and the Child

by Maria Montessori Read by Edith van der Have-Raats 4.4
In this insightful lecture from 1915, renowned educational reformer Maria Montessori explores the profound relationship between mothers and …

Five Years of My Life

by Alfred Dreyfus Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French Army was court martialed in 1894 on a trumped up charge of treason and condemned to life impr…

You Never Miss the Dopamine

by Bill Schmalfeldt Read by Bill Schmalfeldt 4.7
He's quickly becoming the Lewis Black of Parkinson's Disease. In a series of hilarious essays, Bill Schmalfeldt (author of "No Doorwa…

An American in the Making

by Marcus Eli Ravage Read by Sue Anderson 4.6
“The sweat-shop was for me the cradle of liberty. . . It was my first university.” Attending lectures and the New York theatre at night; by …

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