LibriVox Audio Books Catalog (Page 5)

Venture Smith was an African captured as a child and transported to the American colonies to be sold as a slave. As an adult, he purchased h…

In Our Convent Days

Read by Mary Schneider

Agnes Repplier

With her usual wit and charm, Ms. Repplier recalls her days at Eden Hall, the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Torresdale, north of Philadelph…

The Story of Mary MacLane

Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)

Mary Maclane

At the age of 19 in 1902, MacLane published her first book, The Story of Mary MacLane. It sold 100,000 copies in the first month and was pop…

Old Rail Fence Corners

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Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris

Old Rail Fence Corners is an historical treasure trove containing the stories of the first significant waves of European-American settlers i…

Memories of Old Montana

Read by garybclayton

Con Price

Con Price recalls the 1870s through the 1940s, growing up in Iowa and South Dakota before heading out on a cattle drive into Montana. Never…

Our Old Home

Read by Margaret Espaillat

Nathaniel Hawthorne

These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were first published in the form of a …

Longings for Home

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Walt Whitman

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Longings for Home by Walt Whitman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 26, 2012.Bor…

My Trip Abroad

Read by Chuck Williamson

Charlie Chaplin

"A steak and kidney pie, influenza and a cablegram. There is the triple alliance that is responsible for the whole thing."So begin…

The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 4

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National Geographic Society

National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 4 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Irrigation in CaliforniaRound about AshevilleA Trip…

The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II

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James Boswell

Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, edito…

Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 2)

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John Hay

Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who…

Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph

Read by Rachel Lintern

Frances Sheridan

Sidney and Cecilia are best childhood friends who are forced to part for 5 years. In that interval, Sidney Bidulph - an undoubtedly good and…

California

Read by LivelyHive

J. Tyrwhitt Brooks and Henry Vizetelly

Henry Vizetelly, writing under the pseudonym J. Tyrwhitt Brooks, recalls an expedition to California he took between 1847-1848 . Originally,…

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1661

Read by Nicole Lee

Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys was the first Secretary to the Admiralty during the reign of Charles II, instrumental in developing the Royal Navy and witness …

A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar

Read by R. S. Steinberg

George Bethune English

As a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps during the War of 1812 assigned to Marine Corps headquarters, English sailed to the…

Specimen Days

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Walt Whitman

Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his e…

The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen Vol. 1

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Howard Carter and Arthur C. Mace

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, …