Biography & Autobiography

Twelve Years a Slave

by Solomon Northup Read by Rob Marland 4.7
Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir of a freeborn African American from New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. After being held for…

Sergeant York and His People

by Sam K. Cowan Read by Brett W. Downey 4.7
From a cabin back in the mountains of Tennessee, forty-eight miles from the railroad, a young man went to the World War. He was untutored in…

Remarkable Rogues

by Charles Kingston Read by David Wales 4.5
Remarkable Rogues offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of twenty individuals whose choices and actions defy conventional morality. Ea…

The Story of Joan of Arc

by Andrew Lang Read by timothyFR 4.6
Joan of Arc is a folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. Claiming divine guidance, she led the French army to several important v…

Collected Works of Saint Patrick

by Saint Patrick Read by Sean McKinley 4.7
St. Patrick's Breastplate - This prayer is attributed to St. Patrick and his disciples. It is written with some Celtic pagan elements, but i…

The Voyage of the Beagle

by Charles Darwin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The book, also known as Darwin's Journal of Researches, is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal…

Saint Athanasius

by Frances Alice Forbes Read by pattymarie 4.8
A short and rather old fashioned biography a great saint. Don't expect subtlety; it's unapologetic hagiography. The saint is presented as a …

The Life of Cicero

by Anthony Trollope Read by Philippa 4.7
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the tu…

The Trail of the Hawk

by Sinclair Lewis Read by John W. Michaels 4.6
Trail of the Hawk, narrated by Mike Vendetti aka Miketheauctioneer, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own name. It was not…

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

by Andrew Carnegie Read by William Tomcho 4.6
This autobiography of Andrew Carnegie is a very well written and interesting history of one of the most wealthy men in the United states. He…

The Story of My Life

by Helen Keller Read by Maria 4.5
The Story of My Life is a personal account of Helen Keller's life, from her early days to those as an adult. It includes how she came to mee…

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

by John Foxe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beli…

My Inventions and Other Works

by Nikola Tesla Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Between February and October 1919, Nikola Tesla submitted many articles to the magazine Electrical Experimenter. The most famous of these wo…

Through the Brazilian Wilderness

by Theodore Roosevelt Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Roosevelt's popular book Through the Brazilian Wilderness describes his expedition into the Brazilian jungle in 1913 as a member of the Roos…

Poor Richard's Almanack

by Benjamin Franklin Read by Michele Fry 4.7
A brief biographical sketch of Franklin's life, followed by a collection (published in 1899) of 670 aphorisms, apothegms, or proverbs - shor…

A First Century Message to Twentieth Century Christians

by G. Campbell Morgan Read by MaryAnn 5
G. Campbell Morgan was one of the leading evangelical preachers of his day. He began preaching at age 13 and by age 26 was teaching at the …

The Life of St. Teresa

by Frances Alice Forbes Read by MariaS 4.8
The Life of St. Teresa offers an insightful exploration into the life of Teresa of Ávila, a pivotal figure in the history of Christia…

Oroonoko

by Aphra Behn Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
Aphra Behn was the first woman writer in England to make a living by her pen, and her novel Oroonoko was the first work published in English…

The Story of Aristotle's Philosophy

by Will Durant Read by Pamela Nagami 4.8
This little Blue Book No. 39, by Will Durant, deals with Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.), a Macedonian pupil of Plato, who became the teacher of …

The Strenuous Life

by Theodore Roosevelt Read by Bob Neufeld 4.6
This book is a collection of Theodore Roosevelt’s published commentaries and public addresses on the general theme of the requirements for i…

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