Biography & Autobiography

My Path to Atheism

by Annie Besant Read by Kevin Green 3.9
My Path to Atheism is a remarkable document in many ways, not least that it was written by a woman in Victorian England, not the most open f…

Letters to His Children

by Theodore Roosevelt Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The strong, vigorous, exalted character of a doting father who loved playing with his children and their pets, even while serving as the Pre…

The Training of a Forester

by Gifford Pinchot Read by KHand 4.3
Written by a forester, this book looks at the definition of "forest", what the life of a forester entails, discusses the forest se…

Science and Hypothesis

by Henri Poincaré Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912) was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of scien…

The Story of Old France

by H. A. Guerber Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The aim of this volume is to give a complete graphic account of the main features of the history of France to 1715 A.D., with as much additi…

The History of England, from the Accession of James II

by Thomas Babington Macaulay Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
This is chapter 1 of volume 1 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the h…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects

by Giorgio Vasari Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…

The Art of Money Getting

by P. T. Barnum Read by Jill Preston 4.4
Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman, and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebra…

Selected Essays

by Voltairine De Cleyre Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.&…

The Bird Study Book

by Thomas Gilbert Pearson Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.8
Do you enjoy bird watching? Would you like to learn a little more about the early conservation efforts to protect wild birds? In the Preface…

The Life of Mozart

by Otto Jahn Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
The Life of Mozart by Otto Jahn offers a comprehensive exploration of the life and legacy of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of history's most …

Mozart

by Friedrich Kerst Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His name is one of the most recognizable names in history and one of the most enduring of composers. At age 5, this…

Nehemiah

by King James Version Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Book of Nehemiah is a book of the Hebrew Bible. Told largely in the form of a first-person memoir, it concerns the rebuilding of the wal…

Sherman’s Military Lessons Of The American Civil War

by William Tecumseh Sherman Read by David Wales 4
This LibriVox recording comprises chapter 25 (Conclusion – Military Lessons Of The War) of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memo…

My Mother and I

by Elizabeth Gertrude Stern Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
Elizabeth Stern was two and a half years old, when her family emigrated from Poland to Pittsburgh. My Mother and I is the story of Stern's A…

Concerning Virgins

by Saint Ambrose Read by Euthymius 4.7
Concerning Virgins (De Virginibus) is a series of letters, compiled into three “books,” St. Ambrose wrote to his sister, Manellia, These, pe…

A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis

by Noah Davis Read by Bryan Ness 4.3
The object of the writer, in preparing this account of himself, is toRAISE SUFFICIENT MEANS TO FREE HIS LAST TWO CHILDREN FROM SLAVERY.Havin…

The Story of Geronimo

by Jim Kjelgaard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Geronimo (1829 – 1909) was a prominent leader of the Bedonkohe Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States for their expansion in…

Queen Elizabeth

by Edward Spencer Beesly Read by Brendan Stallard 4.3
Explore the life of Queen Elizabeth I, the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty, in this insightful biography by Edward Spencer Beesly. Delve i…

From the Darkness Cometh the Light

by Lucy Ann Delaney Read by James K. White 4.5
In From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom Delaney tells the story of how she was born into slavery of her mother--a fr…

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