Memoirs

Annie Besant

by Annie Besant Read by timothyFR 4.8
In her autobiography, Annie Besant poignantly writes of her search for the truth of what she believed in, leaving Christianity behind to emb…

Gallipoli Diary

by John Graham Gillam Read by Sue Anderson 4.6
Major John Graham Gillam, British Supply Officer, wrote in his World War I Gallipoli Diary that when he sailed from England for the Dardanel…

John Barleycorn

by Jack London Read by Peter Kelleher 4.5
Jack London died at the age of forty. In this autobiographical work, London describes his life as seen through the eyes of John Barleycorn (…

Reminiscences of Captain Gronow

by Rees Howell Gronow Read by Ruth Golding 4.7
A collection of memoirs about the Peninsular War, the Battle of Waterloo, and society and personalities of Regency London and 19th century P…

Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Black Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness. The title page o…

The Letters of Mark Twain

by Mark Twain Read by James K. White 4.8
These letters were arranged in two volumes by Albert Bigelow Paine, Samuel L. Clemens's literary executor, as a supplement to Mark Twain, A …

Stephen Mitchell's Journey

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.8
Stephen Mitchell is a young man without a place in the world. He hates farming, although he works endless hours on the poor family farm. He …

The Underground Railroad

by William Still Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
”It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land of bondage.” William Still."Dear Sir:—For mo…

Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West

by Cyrus Townsend Brady Read by David Wales 4.5
Brady was a journalist, historian, adventure writer, and Episcopal priest. As a priest he spent some time on the American frontier as a miss…

Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom

by Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnston, Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnstonandkenneth Darlaston Yearsley and Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnston And Kenneth Darlaston Yearsley Read by Kevin Green 4.8
Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom is the true but little known story of the escape of eight British Prisoners-of-War from a Turkish POW camp durin…

Mothering on Perilous

by Lucy S. Furman Read by Laura Victoria 4.9
Cecelia Loring is alone in the world after the death of her mother and has come to the Kentucky mountains in search of work. Although very d…

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…

The Loss of the S. S. Titanic

by Lawrence Beesley Read by Allyson Hester 4.7
This is a 1st hand account written by a survivor of the Titanic about that fateful night and the events leading up to it as well as the even…

A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba

by Mary Georgiana Caroline Hall Read by Sibella Denton 4.5
In 1881, Mrs. Cecil Hall's brother went to Manitoba to farm. In 1882, she went out for a visit of some two months, and followed that visit w…

The Friendship of Christ

by Robert Hugh Benson Read by dave7 4.8
Robert Hugh Benson, who was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, was ordained an Anglican priest in 1895 by his father, …

Childhood

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Childhood, published in 1852, is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy’s autobiographical trilogy, which also includes Boyhood, and Youth. Publishe…

A Woman Who Went to Alaska

by May Kellogg Sullivan Read by Karen Commins 4.5
Alaska has only been a state since 1959, and the breathtaking terrain remains mostly unspoiled and natural. In modern times, many of us have…

A Rebel's Recollections

by George Eggleston Read by Lee Smalley 4.7
George Cary Eggleston's Civil War memoir begins with a separate essay on the living conditions and political opinions of Virginia’s citizenr…

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…

Army Letters from an Officer's Wife

by Frances M. A. Roe Read by Sue Anderson 4.7
"There appeared from the bushes in front of me, and right in the path, two immense gray wolves . . . Rollo saw them and stopped instan…

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