Biography & Autobiography

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans

by Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

by Andrew Carnegie Read by William Tomcho 4.6
This autobiography of Andrew Carnegie is a very well written and interesting history of one of the most wealthy men in the United states. He…

Orlando

by Virginia Woolf 4.6
A fictional biography following the adventures of Orlando: initially a gentleman, later a lady — always a poet — who romps through British h…

Pushing to the Front

by Orison Swett Marden Read by Luke Sartor 4.7
Published in 1894, this is the first book by the renowned inspirational author, Dr. Orison Swett Marden. Pushing to the Front is the product…

Indian Heroes and Great Chieftans

by Charles Alexander Eastman Read by Laura Caldwell 4.6
EVERY age, every race, has its leaders and heroes. There were over sixty distinct tribes of Indians on this continent, each of which boasted…

Autobiography of a Seaman

by Lord Thomas Cochrane Read by Timothy Ferguson 4.5
This two volume work is the autobiography of Lord Cochrane, a naval captain of the Napoleonic period. His adventures are seminal to the deve…

Great Inventors and Their Inventions

by Frank Puterbaugh Bachman and Frank P. Bachman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This book is about Great inventors and what they created. It has different stories like Alexander Bell, Wrights, Morse, Gutenberg, and Ediso…

The Autobiography of St. Ignatius

by St. Ignatius Loyola Read by Phil Chenevert 4.7
This account of the life of St. Ignatius, dictated by himself to Father Gonzalez, is a most valuable record of the great Founder of the Soc…

Sergeant York and His People

by Sam K. Cowan Read by Brett W. Downey 4.7
From a cabin back in the mountains of Tennessee, forty-eight miles from the railroad, a young man went to the World War. He was untutored in…

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass Read by Lee Smalley 4.8
Frederick Douglass published his highly acclaimed third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, in 1881 and revised it in 1892.…

The Wall Street Girl

by Frederick O. Bartlett Read by ashleighjane 4.8
After the loss of his father, Don finds that life isn't quite as easy when having to make his own way in the world. Stripped of his riches, …

Confessions

by Saint Augustine of Hippo Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Confessions is a profound autobiographical work by St. Augustine of Hippo, composed in the late 4th century. This introspective narrative sp…

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce Read by Peter Bobbe 4.7
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is James Joyce's groundbreaking debut novel, offering a semi-autobiographical glimpse into the forma…

The Life of Kit Carson

by Edward S. Ellis Read by Laura Victoria 4.6
Christopher Carson, or as he was familiarly called, Kit Carson, was a man whose real worth was understood only by those with whom he was ass…

Days on the Road

by Sarah Raymond Herndon Read by Sue Anderson 4.6
“We had spent almost all our money for toll, ferrying and other expenses on the road. It might be a serious matter to be in a strange place…

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass Read by Jeanette Ferguson 4.5
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass.…

The Life of Anthony

by Athanasius of Alexandria Read by Matthew James Gray 4.8
Anthony (251-356CE) lived in Egypt, and became one of the fathers of Christian desert monasticism. When he was about 18 years old, and havin…

George Washington

by Calista McCabe Courtenay Read by Bill Boerst 4.6
In this biography for young people, Calista McCabe Courtenay takes the reader from George Washington the surveyor to his early military care…

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
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…

Emma McChesney and Company

by Edna Ferber Read by Phil Chenevert 4.6
This is the final volume in the trilogy following the smart, stylish, divorced and independent businesswoman Emma McChesney in her career fr…

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