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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…

With the Anzacs in Cairo

Read by Adam Bielka

Guy Thornton

Guy Thornton recounts his experiences serving as a military chaplain with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) while stationed …

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…

Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies, Volume I

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Thomas Jefferson

This is the first volume of Thomas Jefferson's public and private writings edited and compiled by his oldest grandson Thomas Jefferson Rando…

The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922

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George Mallory

Personal narratives of climbing Mount Everest in 1922-1923. The expeditions did not reach the summit. The northern approach to the mountain…

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1663

Read by Nicole Lee

Samuel Pepys

Another jam-packed year for Pepys, making provisions for Tangier, indulging his passion for the theatre, always thoroughly engaged in his re…

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 …

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…

A Personal Record

Read by Peter Dann

Joseph Conrad

Conrad began dictating the series of loose autobiographical sketches that would become 'A Personal Record' in 1911, when he was half way thr…

Reminiscences of My Life in Camp

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Susie King Taylor

Susie King Taylor was a Black nurse in the 33rd United States Colored Troops in the Union Army during the American Civil War, a teacher and …

Brief Lives Volume II

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…

Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865

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…

The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777

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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…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 02

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: The Discovery and Restitution of Looted European Art

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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…

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