Memoirs

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

by William Makepeace Thackeray Read by mb 4.6
First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel…

Three Years in the Federal Cavalry

by Willard Glazier Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Captain Glazier narrates his experiences as a cavalryman in the Federal Army during the Civil War, from his enlistment in New York State to …

The Loss of the S. S. Titanic

by Lawrence Beesley Read by Allyson Hester 4.7
This is a 1st hand account written by a survivor of the Titanic about that fateful night and the events leading up to it as well as the even…

The Life of Honorable William F. Cody

by William Frederick Cody Read by Barry Eads 4.7
The life and adventures of Honorable William F. Cody--Buffalo Bill--as told by himself, make up a narrative which reads more like romance th…

From the Deep Woods to Civilization

by Charles Alexander Eastman Read by Laura Victoria 4.8
From the Deep Woods to Civilization is the sequel to Indian Boyhood. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) gives his account of what it was like to tran…

The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen

by Howard Carter and Arthur C. Mace Read by Availle 4.8
On 26 November 1922, after eight years of work in the Valley of the Kings, archeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen, …

Ruth Hall

by Fanny Fern Read by Deborah Knight 4.6
This is a COMPELLING semi-autobiography of a woman who experienced severe highs and lows! Starting many things at a very young age in life &…

Fighting France

by Edith Wharton Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the li…

Farthest North

by Fridtjof Nansen Read by Sharon Riskedahl 4.6
Farthest North chronicles the remarkable journey of Fridtjof Nansen and his crew aboard the ship Fram, as they venture into the uncharted Ar…

The Pastor's Wife

by Elizabeth Von Arnim Read by James E. Carson 4.4
Written by an author born in Australia, grew up in England, married in Germany, and then flew to the United States. A tale about a young wom…

Mark Twain's Journal Writings

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.7
This second collection of essays by Mark Twain is a good example of the diversity of subject matter about which he wrote. As with the essays…

Spiritual Dialogue Between the Soul, the Body, Self-Love, the Spirit, Humanity,…

by Saint Catherine Of Genoa Read by Ann Boulais 4.8
Saint Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno, born Genoa 1447 – 15 September 1510) is an Italian Roman Catholic saint and mystic, admir…

Recollections of Bush Life in Australia

by Henry William Haygarth Read by KirksVoice 4.4
This was written in the mid 1800’s at time when Australia saw an influx of immigration from Europe and when England was sending some prisone…

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army

by Sarah Emma Edmonds Read by TriciaG 4.6
The “Nurse and Spy” is simply a record of events which have transpired in the experience and under the observation of one who has been on th…

Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read by Martin Geeson 4.6
“Thus I have acted; these were my thoughts; such was I.”Rousseau’s lengthy and sometimes anguished dossier on the Self is one of the most re…

The Gold Hunters

by John David Borthwick Read by Sue Anderson 4.3
This is a robust, rough and tumble, first-hand account of the early California gold rush years 1851-1854 by a Scottish adventurer and artist…

Recollections of Imperial Russia

by Meriel Buchanan Read by Jan Moorehouse 4.8
In this memoir, Meriel Buchanan (9-5-1886 to 2-6-1959) links the history of Russia to powerful, lingering memories of her years living there…

Army Life in a Black Regiment

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson Read by FNH 4.6
These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the …

Letters from Egypt

by Lucie Duff-Gordon Read by Sibella Denton 4.7
As a girl, Lady Duff-Gordon was noted both for her beauty and intelligence. As an author, she is most famous for this collection of letters …

Hospital Sketches

by Louisa May Alcott Read by Aaron Elliott 4.4
Alcott in 1862 served as a nurse in Georgetown, D.C during the Civil War. She wrote home what she observed there. Those harrowing and someti…

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