Biography & Autobiography

Madame de Staël

by Bella Duffy Read by Pamela Nagami 5
Madame Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) was the daughter of the Swiss banker and statesman, Jacques Necker. Her mother hosted a popular Pa…

Great Men and Famous Women

by Charles F. Horne Read by realisticspeakers 4.2
A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history. Volume 4: John Adams, Louis A…

Saint Bonaventure

by Fr. Laurence Costelloe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
St. Bonaventure (1221 -1274), born Giovanni di Fidanza, was an Italian medieval Franciscan, scholastic theologian and philosopher. The seven…

Some Articles About Mark Twain

by Sarah Knowles Bolton, Charles Hopkins Clark, William M. Clemens and Edmund Yates Read by John Greenman 4.6
"Samuel Langhorne Clemens", "Mark Twain At Home", "Youth of Mark Twain" & "Mark Twain Gossip"Pub…

The Venerable Don Bosco

by M. S. Pine Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
This brief sketch of the holy life and marvelous achievements of a great inheritor of the spirit of Saint Francis of Sales, Saint Don Bosco …

Brief Lives

by John Aubrey Read by Nicole Lee 3
A collection of sparkling gossipy biographical pieces of Aubrey's contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glim…

My Father As I Recall Him

by Mamie Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
"If, in these pages, written in remembrance of my father, I should tell you, my dear friends, nothing new of him, I can, at least, prom…

Johann Sebastian Bach

by Herbert Francis Peyser Read by David Wales 3
Compared with the unimaginable richness of his inner life as the overpowering volume and splendor of his works reveal it, Bach’s day-to-day …

Biographical Memoir of John Wesley Powell

by William Morris Davis Read by Melanie Schleeter McCalmont 4.6
This is Volume VIII of the National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs series. It is read as 33 sections using the memoir headings. Jo…

George Washington

by Ferdinand Schmidt Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Among all the numerous life stories written by Ferdinand Schmidt for the delectation and education of German youth, none surpasses that of W…

The Wright Brothers

by Fred Kelly Read by Ciufi Galeazzi 4.9
This is a biography of the Wright Brothers as told by the American humorist and newspaperman Fred Kelly, a personal friend of the Wrights. I…

A Flying Trip Around the World

by Elizabeth Bisland Read by Holly Jenson 3.3
In November 1889, the New York World announced that it was sending its reporter Nellie Bly around the world, in a bid to beat Phileas Fogg's…

King and Parliament

by George Henry Wakeling Read by Pamela Nagami 4.5
This slim volume by the Oxford University lecturer, George Henry Wakeling, deals with the period in British history from the reign of King J…

My Own Story

by Emmeline Pankhurst Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement. She was widely criticized for her milita…

Philip Augustus

by William Holden Hutton Read by Pamela Nagami 4.8
Philip Augustus (Philip II of France 1165-1223), grandfather of Saint Louis, was one of France's greatest kings. While England's Henry II wa…

The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier

by Charles E. Flandrau Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
A series of stories written by Judge Charles E. Flandrau "at different times during his long residence in the Northwest, which embrace …

My Airships

by Alberto Santos-Dumont Read by Scott Danneker 5
The delightful tale of "le petit Santos" as he dances through the sky above the City of Light at the dawn of the aerial age.A note…

The Age of the Condottieri

by Oscar Browning Read by Pamela Nagami 4.6
Italy from 1409 to 1530 is synonymous with the Renaissance, but this was also the age of the condottieri, Italian captains of mercenary comp…

Unsung Heroes

by Elizabeth Ross Haynes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
This book consists of 17 biographies of remarkable men and women who, in 1921, were "unsung." Some of them are now pretty well kno…

Abigail Adams and Her Times

by Laura E. Howe Richards Read by Ciufi Galeazzi 4.7
This is a young person's biography of Abigail Adams that will appeal to readers of all ages. In the author's own words, "I am not writi…

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