Biography & Autobiography
- Voices from the Battlefield
- Criminal Lives: True Stories
- Voices of Social Change
- Voices of Political Change
- Voices of Resilience
- Voices from American History
- Pioneers in Health and Healing
- Adventures in Exploration
The Bird Study Book
Do you enjoy bird watching? Would you like to learn a little more about the early conservation efforts to protect wild birds? In the Preface…
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great was one of the most successful military commanders in history, and was undefeated in battle. By the time of his death, h…
Sherman’s Recollections of California
This LibriVox recording comprises three chapters from American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. The chapters deal with…
Queen Elizabeth
Explore the life of Queen Elizabeth I, the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty, in this insightful biography by Edward Spencer Beesly. Delve i…
Great Men and Famous Women
Great Men and Famous Women is an expansive collection that delves into the lives of over 200 influential figures throughout history. Edited …
The Diary of a Dead Officer
Published posthumously in 1919, this collection of diary entries presents a scathing picture of army life and is said to be one of the most …
The Underground Railroad
"The work is intensely interesting. Many of the narratives thrill the reader through and through. Some of them awaken an indignation, a…
Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
These 12 stories give a personal portrait of twelve famous soldiers from the past two centuries. Each story explores the early life of the s…
Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality
Mary Edwards Walker was a physician and surgeon who served in the Civil War. An abolitionist, prohibitionist, and cross-dressing leader of t…
Philemon
Philemon is a brief yet profound letter from the Apostle Paul, written during his imprisonment, addressing Philemon, a prominent member of t…
A Crown for Joanna
She was born a princess, heir to her father’s kingdom of Portugal, and she might at will have reigned from almost any throne in Europe. But …
The Life of George Washington
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 Underground Railroad
"Never before has the working of the Underground Railroad been so thoroughly explained. Here we have in complete detail the various met…
Foundations
Essentially the sequel to The Life of St. Teresa, Teresa recounts the foundations of the Discalced Carmelite monasteries in Spain, both for …
Lord Kitchener
In this insightful essay, G. K. Chesterton explores the complex life and legacy of Lord Kitchener, a figure whose military prowess and polit…
Jesus of Nazareth
"Jesus of Nazareth, a Biography, by John Mark," recognizes the author of the second Gospel as that "John, whose surname was M…
John Stuart Mill
This biography is actually a series of essays by prominent personalities of the time that shed light on John Stuart Mill's life and areas of…
The Sins of Hollywood
Exacerbated by several high-profile Hollywood scandals, a wave of anti-Hollywood rhetoric tried to paint the movie capital as a veritable ho…
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688
David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…
The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln
The Boys’ Life of Abraham Lincoln is a biography with many anecdotes that takes one deeper into the thoughts, personality, and beliefs of th…