Biography & Autobiography

Letters on an Elk Hunt

by Elinore Pruitt Stewart Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
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…

Mystical City of God

by Venerable María De Jesús De Ágreda Read by Ann Boulais 4.9
The Mystical City of God is a book written in the 17th-century by the Franciscan nun, Venerable Mary of Jesus of Ágreda.According to …

The Travels of Ibn Batuta

by Ibn Battuta Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
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…

Pope Pius the Tenth

by Frances Alice Forbes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Explore the life and legacy of Pope Saint Pius X, a pivotal figure in the Catholic Church during the early 20th century. Born Giuseppe Melch…

Indian Child Life

by Charles Alexander Eastman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The author was raised as an American Indian and describes what it was like to be an Indian boy (the first 7 chapters) and an Indian Girl (th…

The Jesuits in North America

by Francis Parkman, Jr. Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread t…

Famous Assassinations Of History

by Francis Johnson Read by David Wales 4.6
It has been the object of the writer to make each of these “famous assassinations” the central scene of a picture in which the political, re…

Cyropaedia

by Xenophon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Cyropaedia (or Cyropedia) is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, written in the early 4th century BC by the Athenian gentle…

Russia in 1919

by Arthur Ransome Read by Expatriate 4.6
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: On August 27, 1914, in London, I made this note in a memorandum book: "Met Arthur Ransome at_____'s; discussed a boo…

The Right Way to Do Wrong

by Harry Houdini Read by Lee Ann Howlett 4.6
In The Right Way to Do Wrong, legendary illusionist Harry Houdini takes listeners on a fascinating journey into the world of crime and decep…

The Life of Saint Columba

by Frances Alice Forbes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Saint Columba (521 – 597) was an Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity in present-day Scotland. He founded the imp…

Agricola

by Publius Cornelius Tacitus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Agricola (Latin: De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, lit. On the life and character of Julius Agricola) is a book by the Roman historian…

Mob Rule In New Orleans

by Ida B. Wells-Barnett Read by Holly Jenson 4.8
Born into slavery in Mississippi in 1862, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist…

The Frozen North

by Edith Horton Read by Laura Victoria 4.6
The Frozen North invites young listeners on an adventurous journey through the icy realms of the polar regions. This engaging audiobook pres…

Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams

by Abigail Adams Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
Abigail Adams lived the American Revolution as the wife of one of its central figures--John Adams. Her family correspondence, published alon…

Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

by Anthony Trollope Read by Jessica Louise 4.3
Anthony Trollope's autobiography will delight you whether or not you've read (or listened to) any of his many works. His honest if self-depr…

Three Years In Europe

by William Wells Brown Read by James K. White 4.7
William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave--his father a white man who never acknowl…

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

by Giacomo Casanova Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This is the first of five volumes. - Giacomo Casanova (1725 in Venice – 1798 in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Vene…

Famous Men of Greece

by John Henry Haaren Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Famous Men of Greece offers a captivating exploration of the lives of notable figures from ancient Greece, bringing history to life through …

The Life of Charlemagne

by Thomas Hodgkin Read by Pamela Nagami 4.4
Charlemagne (Charles the Great) c. 742-814 was King of the Franks, conqueror of Lombard Italy, and on Christmas day 800, was crowned by Pope…

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