Biography & Autobiography
A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler travelled to the South Island of New Zealand in 1860, landing at Lyttleton, the main port for the Canterbury Settlement. Altho…
Augustus Caesar and the Organisation of the Empire of Rome
Read by Ann Boulais
John Benjamin Firth
There is, so far as I have been able to ascertain, no biography of Augustus Caesar - a most curious fact when one considers the extraordinar…
A Ball Player's Career
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Adrian C. Anson
The biography of one of the greatest players that the game of baseball of his era, in his own words. "Cap" Anson, quite probably b…
McClellan's Own Story
Read by Mike Manolakes
George Brinton Mcclellan and George Brinton McClellan
Memoirs of General George Brinton McClellan, commanding general of the Army of the Potomac during the early years of the American Civil War.…
Rousseau and Education According to Nature
Read by Jim Locke
Thomas Davidson
In my Volume on Aristotle in this series, I tried to give an account of ancient, classical, and social Education; in the present volume I ha…
Dr. Elsie Inglis
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Frances Balfour
Dr. Elsie Inglis is one of the unsung heroes of the late 19th and early 20th century. She became a physician in 1894, and shortly after ope…
William Penn
Read by Richard Vogel
George Hodges
Biography of William Penn - Summary by Richard Vogel
Annie Oakley, Woman at Arms
Read by Barry Eads
Courtney Ryley Cooper
Annie Oakley was without a doubt the greatest markswomen who ever lived. She was christened Phoebe Ann Mosey but was called Annie from child…
Henry the Fifth
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Alfred John Church
A brief history of the life Henry the Fifth. - Summary by KevinS
David Hume and his Influence on Philosophy and Theology
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James Orr
David Hume justly takes rank as the most distinguished member of that brilliant circle of literary men whose names gave such a lustre to the…
The Life of Columbus
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Sir Arthur Helps
A factual account of the life of Christopher Columbus, from his early years, through discoveries in the New World, to his death in 1506. - S…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…
The Story of George Fox
Read by Richard Vogel
Rufus Jones
A biography of George Fox, founder of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). - Summary by Richard Vogel
Mujeres
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Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer and Concepción Gimeno De Flaquer
Breves semblanzas y biografias comparadas de diversas mujeres a lo largo de la Historia. Concepción Gimeno De Flaquer, toma como refe…
Я очень хочу жить
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Дарья Донцова and Донцова Дарья
Я очень хочу жить Эта книга написана женщиной, которая не один год боролась с раком груди и сумела победить болезнь. Дарья Донцова ш…
Ingersoll on SHAKESPEARE
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Col. Ingersoll begins his famous lecture on SHAKESPEARE as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of ge…
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
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Elizabeth Blackwell
A fascinating account of the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. She writes of her struggles in being accepted to …
Captain John Smith
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C. H. Forbes-Lindsay
Captain John Smith is probably best known for his association with the colonization of Virginia from the early days of Jamestown, and his ex…
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years
Read by Scotty Smith
Carl Sandburg
A fascinating look at the early life of Abraham Lincoln through his term as Illinois congressman. Writer and poet Carl Sandburg, with an acc…
Women of Versailles
Read by Pamela Nagami
Arthur-Léon Imbert De Saint-Amand
Jean de La Bruyère famously characterized Versailles as "that region where joys were visible but false, and vexations hidden but…