Biography & Autobiography

Annie Besant

by Annie Besant Read by timothyFR 4.8
In her autobiography, Annie Besant poignantly writes of her search for the truth of what she believed in, leaving Christianity behind to emb…

Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages

by George Hodges Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Though these stories of the lives of twenty saints and heroes of the faith, we have an introduction to the history of the church from 3rd ce…

The Life of Captain James Cook

by Arthur Octavius Kitson Read by Gnomesb 4.7
“In publishing a popular edition of my work, Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S., it has, of course, been necessary to condense it, but care ha…

Two Years in the Forbidden City

by Princess Der Ling Yu Read by Jc Guan 4.7
THE author of the following narrative has peculiar qualifications for her task. She is a daughter of Lord Yu Keng, a member of the Manchu Wh…

The Life of St. Teresa

by Frances Alice Forbes Read by MariaS 4.9
The Life of St. Teresa offers an insightful exploration into the life of Teresa of Ávila, a pivotal figure in the history of Christia…

The Man Who Fought the Devil

by Eva K. Betz Read by Maria Therese 4.8
Jean Marie Vianney always found it hard to learn. In fact, he made history by receiving a zero as his examination mark after his first year …

Indian Child Life

by Charles Alexander Eastman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The author was raised as an American Indian and describes what it was like to be an Indian boy (the first 7 chapters) and an Indian Girl (th…

The Empire of Russia from the Remotest Periods to the Present Time

by John Stevens Cabot Abbott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Empire of Russia from the Remotest Periods to the Present Time offers a comprehensive exploration of Russia's rich and complex history, …

A Jewish State

by Theodor Herzl Read by Adrian Praetzellis 4.6
Read in English, this is a pivotal document in the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. Herzl designed this work to elevate the discu…

How I Found Livingstone

by Henry Morton Stanley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Sir Henry Morton Stanley is famously quoted for saying "Dr Livingstone, i Presume?". Born in Wales, he migrated over to the United…

Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman

by Sarah Hopkins Bradford Read by Sue Anderson 4.7
A portrait of Harriet Tubman is scheduled to replace that of Andrew Jackson on the front of the U.S. $20 bill in 2020. Sarah H. Bradford, w…

The Wonder-Worker of Padua

by Charles Warren Stoddard Read by dave7 4.6
This is the inspiring story of Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231). The son of a wealthy Portuguese family, he was initially ordained a pries…

Edison, His Life and Inventions

by Frank Lewis Dyer Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage batter…

Richard II

by Jacob Abbott Read by Cate Barratt 4.5
Richard II offers a detailed exploration of the life and reign of one of England's most enigmatic monarchs. Born in 1367 in Bordeaux, France…

The Central Period of the Middle Age

by Beatrice A. Lees Read by Pamela Nagami 4.7
Beatrice Lees writes that the history of the period of the Middle Ages from 918 to 1273 is that of "a heroic period, the age of feudali…

Our Young Folks' Plutarch

by Rosalie Kaufman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
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…

The Financier

by Theodore Dreiser Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.7
In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling it back w…

The Life of Blessed John B. Marie Vianney

by William James McGlothlin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney, T.O.S.F., (8 May 1786 – 4 August 1859), commonly known in English as St John Vianney, was a French parish pries…

Letters on an Elk Hunt

by Elinore Pruitt Stewart Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This is a sequel to Letters of a Woman Homesteader in which Elinore Rupert (Pruitt) Stewart describes her arrival and early years on a Burnt…

The Life of Saint Columba

by Frances Alice Forbes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Saint Columba (521 – 597) was an Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity in present-day Scotland. He founded the imp…

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