Memoirs

Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China

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Robert Fortune


An account by Scottish botanist of his journey to China to discover the secret of producing tea and securing plants for propagation outside…

There Was a Cherry-Tree

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James Whitcomb Riley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of There Was a Cherry-Tree by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 1…

Letters from a Prairie Garden

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Edna W. Underwood


The "Letters from a Prairie Garden," are genuine letters and not fiction. They went through the mail. An explanatory word about th…

Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette

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Henriette Campan


Introduced into the royal household as court reader at the age of 15 and later rising to the office of first lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoin…

Kidnapped in London

Read by Matthew McNaughton


Sun Yat-sen and Sun Yat-Sen


Sun Yat-Sen was the first president of the Republic of China after the brutal Qing government collapsed in 1911. Over a decade earlier, he h…

The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume II

Read by Nicole Lee


François-René de Chateaubriand


Volume II of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, translated by Teixeira de Mattos. This volume covers the period from his return t…

The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume III

Read by Nicole Lee


François-René de Chateaubriand


The third volume of Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb covers the spectacular fall, exile, and …

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 04

Read by Gillian Hendrie


Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne


Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…

Down In Water Street

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Samuel Hopkins Hadley


Written by the Superintendent of the Jerry McAuley Water Street Mission, "Down in Water Street" is intended to share some of the e…

Secrets of the Friendly Woods

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Rex Brasher


Rex Brasher is best known for his having painted in watercolor a complete set of all the extant American birds during his lifetime. This is …

The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume IV

Read by Nicole Lee


François-René de Chateaubriand


After the extinction of Napoleon's comet on St Helena, Chateaubriand covers the Bourbon Restoration in this volume, meeting a dazzling array…

The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Na…

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Josiah Henson


The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself is an autobiographical narrative given by J…

An American Idyll: The Life of Carlton H. Parker

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Cornelia Stratton Parker


In a memoir marked by joy, love, and an unbending sense of adventure, Cornelia Stratton Parker reveals the heart of a unique man and their l…

Autobiography of an Actress; or Eight Years on the Stage

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Anna Cora Mowatt was the author of the first Broadway comedy hit written by a woman. Her 1845 play “Fashion” is still performed today. She w…

Journal Of Small Things

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Helen Gansevoort Edwards Mackay


Brief journal sketches from France during WW1. The author was was American, but went on to spend much of her life in France. - Summary by ka…

Memories of My Life

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Sarah Bernhardt


Sarah Bernhardt was a popular French actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries…

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