Biography & Autobiography
Little Masterpieces of Autobiography
Read by Lee Smalley
George Iles
The playwright gives a play its plot, characters, dialog and form, but its sense of living reality is conveyed by the art of the actor. This…
Builders of United Italy
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Rupert S. Holland
Holland 's provides us with an engaging history of the Unification ("Risorgimento") of Italy by exploring the lives of some of i…
What Do You Care What Other People Think
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Richard Feynman One of the greatest theoretical physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for ad…
Le Petit Nord
Read by Sean Michael Hogan
Anne Maclanahan Grenfell
A collection of letters from Anne (MacLanahan) Grenfell, future wife of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, regarding her year of missionary service at th…
The Day of Sir John Macdonald
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Sir Joseph Pope
The Day of Sir John Macdonald offers an insightful glimpse into the life of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada, throu…
Society as I Have Found It
Read by John Greenman
Ward Mcallister
Mark Twain illustrator Dan Beard recalled discussing McAllister’s book with Twain. “It was before Webster & Company failed that Ward McA…
Summer Days in Shakespeare Land
Read by Lee Smalley
Charles George Harper
"Some delights of the ancient town of Stratford-upon-Avon and the country round about, together with a sketch of the life of Mr. Willia…
John Gutenberg, First Master Printer
Read by Claudia Salto
Franz Von Dingelstedt
This is a brief sketch of the last years of the life of Johannes (John) Gutenberg, the man who invented the movable letter press. We join hi…
The Life of Buddha
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A. Ferdinand Hérold
This is more than a biography of the spiritual leader, they are lessons we all can learn from his life. This is an enjoyable venture explor…
Horace Walpole's Letters
Read by Barbara Baker
Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford, was a cultivated participant in, and observer of, the social and political life of Georgian England. His…
A Journey Round My Room
Read by Steven Watson
Xavier De Maistre
Sentenced to house arrest for forty-two days owing to his participation in a duel, Xavier de Maistre was inspired to write a travel memoir a…
The Early Hanoverians
Read by Pamela Nagami
Edward Ellis Morris
In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old k…
Partial Portraits
Read by Rita Boutros
Henry James
In this book, writer Henry James gives wonderful and probing insights into the lives and works of many famous and interesting writers, some …
Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian
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Alma Lutz
Alma Lutz's outstanding biography of Susan B. Anthony is revered for its descriptive power, attention to detail and historical significance …
Great Men and Famous Women
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Charles F. Horne
A collection of writings about a variety of men and women from history who were some of the most prominent people around at the time. Alfred…
The Long Ago
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Jacob William Wright and J. W. Wright
The Long Ago offers a reflective glimpse into the boyhood of Jacob William Wright, a lesser-known American poet whose life was shaped by the…
The Empresses of Constantinople
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Joseph Martin McCabe and Joseph Martin Mccabe
In concluding an earlier volume on the mistresses of the western Roman Empire I observed that, as the gallery of fair and frail ladies close…
Richard Strauss
Read by David Wales
Herbert Francis Peyser
There was not much truly spectacular about the course of [Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bede…
Letters of Oscar Wilde
Read by Rob Marland
Oscar Wilde
This third collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes the letters Wilde wrote from prison. It begins with notes of thanks to t…
Ponnamal, Her Story
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Amy Wilson Carmichael
"A girl stood alone in the dark, listening. No one moved about her; the old mother-in-law who slept near by breathed steadily, she wou…