Memoirs
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Pepys
Pepys continues to live life to the hilt, juggling extra-marital shenanigans with a complicated homelife, difficulties with staff, power str…
A Versailles Christmas-Tide
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Mary Stuart Boyd
The Boy has fallen ill with scarlet fever while at school in France. His parents rush to his side. A touching memoir. - Summary by david w…
A Journey Round My Room
Read by Steven Watson
Xavier De Maistre
Sentenced to house arrest for forty-two days owing to his participation in a duel, Xavier de Maistre was inspired to write a travel memoir a…
Station Amusements in New Zealand
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Mary Anne Barker
Station Amusements in New Zealand is a collection of vignettes about life on a sheep station (high country farm) in colonial New Zealand dur…
With the Anzacs in Cairo
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Guy Thornton
Guy Thornton recounts his experiences serving as a military chaplain with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) while stationed …
The Long Ago
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Jacob William Wright and J. W. Wright
Short memory of boyhood by a little-known American poet based in Carmel-By-The-Sea, California. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
Holmes' Own Story
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Herman W. Mudgett
An account written by the infamous serial murderer H. H. Holmes in an attempt to exonerate himself while being tried for numerous crimes in …
Six Years at the Russian Court
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Magaretta Eagar
From 1898 to 1904, Irish born Margaretta Eagar was the nanny to Olga (Ольга), Tatiana (Татьяна), Maria (Мария) and Anastasia (Анастасия) Nik…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne and Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." (Sum…
Salt Mines and Castles
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Thomas Carr Howe
"From May 1945 until February 1946, I served as a Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Officer in Germany. During the first four months of…
Civil War Women
Read by David Wales
Various
This recording comprises two narratives. One is by Cora Mitchel who in 1861 was a girl in her mid-teens. Her Unionist family escaped the C…
The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell
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Nicholas Cresswell
Against his family's wishes, the son of an English landowner emigrates to America in 1774 for reasons he won't reveal. His adventures take h…
Brief Lives
Read by Nicole Lee
John Aubrey
Volume 2 of Aubrey's sparkling gossipy biographical pieces on his contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glim…
A Winter of Content
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Laura Lee Davidson
A charming memoir recounting 10 months spent among the country people of Ontario at the outbreak of the Great War. Resplendent in its descri…
Recollections of Abraham Lincoln
Read by John Greenman
Ward Hill Lamon
Abraham Lincoln came to the presidency under a heavy shroud of uncertainty, not only about his threatened life but, of course, the very exis…
Why Crime Does Not Pay
Read by Ann Boulais
Sophie Lyons
The publishers believe that a picture of a life sketched by a master hand-somebody who stands in the world of crime as Edison does in his fi…
Travels in Brazil
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Henry Koster
A well-written and informative first-hand account of a young man's travels within Brazil during the period shortly before Brazil's independe…
The Mysterious Stranger
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Walter Bates
Sometime in the month of July, 1812, nearly a hundred years ago now, a well dressed, smooth spoken man, less than thirty years of age, made …
Confessions of Two Brothers
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John Cowper Powys
A short self portrait of Powys’ beliefs, temperament and peculiarities which prefigures his later, greater Autobiography. (Summary by Keri F…
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Pepys
Pepys' diary continues with his trademark engaging frankness, as he jockeys for favour, criticises his colleagues on the Navy Board for thei…