Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

Eve’s Diary (version 2)

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


Eve's Diary is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and in…

Stalky & Co.

Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)


Rudyard Kipling


Rudyard Kipling published Stalky & Co. in 1899. Set at an English boarding school in a seaside town on the North Devon coast. (The town,…

Memorias de un loco

Read by Epachuko


Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol


Ingenioso cuento en forma de diario en el que seremos testigos del progresivo descenso a la locura de un funcionario ruso. Al principio se p…

Oblomov

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Ivan Goncharov


Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the nove…

Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (version 2)

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Andrew Lang


The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history o…

Chicot the Jester

Read by John Van Stan


Alexandre Dumas


This sequel to Dumas' “Marguerite de Valois” begins four years after the sudden death of King Charles IX and succession of his brother Henry…

The Bishop's Apron

Read by Lee Smalley


W. Somerset Maugham


"Canon Spratte saw himself as he thought others might see him: mediocre, pompous, self-assertive, verbose." Maugham could have add…

Der Grüne Heinrich (zweite Fassung)

Read by Hans Hafen


Gottfried Keller


Der grüne Heinrich von Gottfried Keller ist ein teilweise autobiographischer Roman, der neben Goethes Wilhelm Meister und Stifters Nach…

Satan's Diary

Read by Crln Yldz Ksr


Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev


"Satan's Diary", Andreyev's last work, was completed by the great Russian a few days before he died in Finland, in September, 1919…

Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance, a short volume, published by Sheldon & Co., NY in 1871, is Mark Twain's third …

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 …

Jacob Faithful

Read by NoelBadrian


Frederick Marryat


Rebelling against the career chosen for him by his wealthy family, Frederic Marryat joined the Royal Navy in 1806 at the age of 14. He first…

The Autobiography of Methuselah

Read by Matthew Reece


John Kendrick Bangs


A satirical look at early biblical events from the point of view of someone who was there to witness most of them: the oldest man in recorde…

Vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón

Read by Tux


Vicente Espinel


Las «Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón» (1618) son una novela picaresca, provista de muchos elementos …

Castle Rackrent

Read by NoelBadrian


Maria Edgeworth


"One of the most inspired chronicles written in English" was the verdict of William Butler Yeats on the novel Castle Rackrent by M…

The Vicar's Daughter

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George MacDonald


This is the third book of the 'Marshmallow' trilogy. It is a fictional autobiography written by Ethelwyn Percivale, or 'Wynnie'. Her father …

Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House

Read by Bridget Gaige


Harriet E. Wilson


Frado is a colored girl, living in the USA a few years before the Civil War. She is abandoned by her own white mother in the house of the Be…

Último día de un reo de muerte

Read by Mongope


Victor Hugo


Víctor Hugo escribió esta obra a raíz de ver a un verdugo ensayando con la guillotina para la ejecución del d&ia…

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Read by James K. White


James Weldon Johnson


Johnson's only novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, was originally published anonymously in 1912. It is a fictional novel written …

The Last Day of a Condemned

Read by Alisson Veldhuis


Victor Hugo


A man who has been condemned to death writes down his cogitations, feelings and fears while he is waiting for his execution. He does not bet…

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