genreList:Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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

Century CBC Radio 1967

Century In Celebration of Canada's Centennial Memoirs, history books, archives and newspapers Part 1 1/1 1967 Part 2 1/7 1967 Joseph Schull …

Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers

Read by Clive Catterall

Samuel Smiles

Short Biographies of some of the most influential engineers who developed the modern manufacturing methods behind the Industrial Revolution.…

Seven Men

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)

Max Beerbohm

In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively…

Brighton Beach Memoirs By Neil Simon

In Neil Simon's darkly funny memoir of his family in 1930's Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Eugene is preoccupied by his passion for the Yankees…

Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From H…

Read by David Wales

William Tecumseh Sherman

This librivox recording comprises part of chapter 22 and all of chapter 23 (The March To The Sea – From Atlanta To Savannah – November And D…

Over Every Hill

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His works include four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; …

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

Read by Jim Clevenger

Ulysses S. Grant

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…

Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Vol. 1

Read by Elin

Peter Kropotkin

Peter Kropotkin was a Russian anarcho-communist and scientist. This is his autobiography, and he writes not only about his own life, but als…

Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Vol. 2

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Peter Kropotkin

Peter Kropotkin was a Russian anarcho-communist and scientist. This is his autobiography, and he writes not only about his own life, but als…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 01

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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne

The author and Napoleon become boyhood friends when they are eight years old in Corsica. They separate when Napoleon is transferred from the…

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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William Makepeace Thackeray

First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel…

Memoirs of Chateaubriand 1768 to 1800

Read by Nicole Lee

François-René de Chateaubriand

This is the first volume of Chateaubriand's Memoires d'Outre Tombe, in a Victorian translation. It covers the period from his birth, includi…

The Memoirs of a White Elephant

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Judith Gautier

"We are told by writers of antiquity that elephants have written sentences in Greek, and that one of them was even known to speak. Ther…

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

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Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. The work was written in 12…

The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 6

Read by Ann Boulais

Agnes Strickland

The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by he…

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 Lives of the Queens of England, Volume 7

Read by Ann Boulais

Agnes Strickland

The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by he…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 047

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Various and Plato

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include philosophy and thought -- Plato, A…

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