Biography & Autobiography
The Romance of Missionary Heroism
Read by David Leeson
John C Lambert and John C. Lambert
The title page gives this book the subtitle, “True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of missionaries with uncivilized …
Life of St. Vincent de Paul
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Frances Alice Forbes
Vincent De Paul [c. 1581 - 1660] was a man renowned during his own century for his compassion, humility and generosity. During the days when…
Caligula
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Suétone
Successeur de l’empereur Tibère, Caligula est le fils d’un général héroïque. A ce titre, le peuple romain s…
Memoir of Jane Austen
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James Edward Austen-Leigh
"The Memoir of my Aunt, Jane Austen, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the …
The Colored Cadet at West Point
Read by James K. White
Henry Ossian Flipper
Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end…
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole
Read by Cori Samuel
Mary Seacole
I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which…
Boyhood
Read by Bill Boerst
Leo Tolstoy
Boyhood offers a poignant glimpse into the formative years of one of literature's greatest minds, Leo Tolstoy. This autobiographical novel c…
Indian Boyhood
Read by Carol Pelster
Charles Alexander Eastman
Indian Boyhood is a lively and appealing first-person recounting of the life of a Sioux child in the last days of the tribe's "wild&quo…
The Child's Book of American Biography
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Mary Stoyell Stimpson
The Child's Book of American Biography introduces young listeners to the remarkable lives of influential figures in American history. Throug…
The Ghosts of Piccadilly
Read by Peter Yearsley
G. S. Street
Nothing spooky or supernatural, but a very personal gathering of gossip, letters, and fragments of biography of famous people who have lived…
The Travels of Ibn Batuta
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Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta (1304 – ca. 1369), was a Moroccan explorer. Over a period of thirty years, Ibn Battuta visited most of the known Islamic world a…
King Alfred of England
Read by Ryan Cherrick
Jacob Abbott
The life and accomplishments of England's sole title holder of "The Great." King Alfred defended England from Viking invasions an…
The Gamekeeper at Home
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Richard Jefferies
Richard Jefferies (1848 – 1887) was born and spent his childhood on a farm at Coate,Wiltshire. He joined the ‘Wiltshire and Gloucestershire …
The Life of George Washington
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Josephine Pollard
The Life story of a public man cannot help being to some extent the same thing as a history of the times in which he lived, and to the case …
The Life and Adventures of Nat Love
Read by Lee Elliott
Nat Love
Nat Love was born a slave, emancipated into abject poverty, grew up riding the range as a cowboy and spent his maturity riding the rails as …
The Autobiography of Madame Guyon
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Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
The Autobiography of Madame Guyon offers a profound glimpse into the life of Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon, a French mystic whose s…
England and the Hundred Years' War
Read by Pamela Nagami
Charles William Chadwick Oman
This little book by the British military historian, Charles Oman, begins with the accession of the warrior king, Edward III, to the English …
Art and Morality
Read by Martin Geeson
Stuart Mason
“Who can help laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist?”“We are dom…
Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous
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Sarah Knowles Bolton
These characters have been chosen from various countries and from varied professions, that the youth who read this book may see that poverty…
Letters on an Elk Hunt
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Elinore Pruitt Stewart
This is a sequel to Letters of a Woman Homesteader in which Elinore Rupert (Pruitt) Stewart describes her arrival and early years on a Burnt…