LibriVox Audio Books Catalog (Page 6)

Eleanor Constance Lodge, (1869-1936), was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from the University of Oxford. In this short sur…

The Romance of Missionary Heroism

Read by David Leeson

John C Lambert

The title page gives this book the subtitle, “True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of missionaries with uncivilized …

The Colored Cadet at West Point

Read by James K. White

Henry Ossian Flipper

Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end…

Life of St. Vincent de Paul

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Frances Alice Forbes

Vincent De Paul [c. 1581 - 1660] was a man renowned during his own century for his compassion, humility and generosity. During the days when…

The Life of Alfred the Great

Read by R. S. Steinberg

Bishop Of Sherbourne Asser

A life of King Alfred of England originally composed in Latin, possibly sometime around 888 A.D. by the Monk and Bishop Asser, although some…

Memoir of Jane Austen

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James Edward Austen-Leigh

"The Memoir of my Aunt, Jane Austen, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the …

Boyhood

Read by Bill Boerst

Leo Tolstoy

Boyhood is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, published in a literary journal …

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Read by Cori Samuel

Mary Seacole

I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which…

J.S. Bach, Volume 1

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Albert Schweitzer

An analysis of Johann Sebastian Bach's life and musical compositions, and of the artistic, philosophical, and religious world in which he ac…

The Life of George Washington in Words of One Syllable

Read by ACBowgus

Josephine Pollard

The Life story of a public man cannot help being to some extent the same thing as a history of the times in which he lived, and to the case …

Our Young Folks' Plutarch

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Rosalie Kaufman

Plutarch's Lives is a series of fifty biographies of famous Greek and Roman men written around 100 AD. In Our Young Folks' Plutarch, Rosalie…

Fathers of Biology

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Charles Mcrae

An account given of the lives of five great naturalists (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius and Harvey) will not be found devoid of int…

The Child's Book of American Biography

Read by Laura Victoria

Mary Stoyell Stimpson

In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so …

Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous

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Sarah Knowles Bolton

These characters have been chosen from various countries and from varied professions, that the youth who read this book may see that poverty…

King Alfred of England

Read by Ryan Cherrick

Jacob Abbott

The life and accomplishments of England's sole title holder of "The Great." King Alfred defended England from Viking invasions an…

The Life and Adventures of Nat Love

Read by Lee Elliott

Nat Love

Nat Love was born a slave, emancipated into abject poverty, grew up riding the range as a cowboy and spent his maturity riding the rails as …

Indian Boyhood

Read by Carol Pelster

Charles Alexander Eastman

Indian Boyhood is a lively and appealing first-person recounting of the life of a Sioux child in the last days of the tribe's "wild&quo…

The Ghosts of Piccadilly

Read by Peter Yearsley

G. S. Street

Nothing spooky or supernatural, but a very personal gathering of gossip, letters, and fragments of biography of famous people who have lived…

The Autobiography of Madame Guyon

Read by peaceuntoyou

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon) (April 13, 1648 - June 9, 1717) was a French mystic and one of the k…

The Gamekeeper at Home

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)

Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies (1848 – 1887) was born and spent his childhood on a farm at Coate,Wiltshire. He joined the ‘Wiltshire and Gloucestershire …

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