Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

Days With Sir Roger de Coverley

Read by Elijah Fisher


Joseph Addison


The author Sir Richard Steele, who was one of the writers for The Spectator, gets the opportunity to spend a month in Sir Roger de Coverley'…

The History Of Sir Richard Calmady

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Lucas Malet


Lucas Malet is the pen name of Mary Kingsley, daughter of Charles Kingsley. She became a hugely successful Victorian novelist, rivalling Rud…

Jean-Christophe, Volume I

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Romain Rolland


The central character, Jean-Christophe Krafft, is a German musician of Belgian extraction, a composer of genius whose life is depicted from …

Lore of Proserpine

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Maurice Henry Hewlett


If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one…

Reveries of a Bachelor

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Ik Marvel


Reveries of a Bachelor, or A Book of the Heart, is a novel by American author Donald Grant Mitchell published under the pseudonym Ik Marvel.…

The American Diary of a Japanese Girl

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Yone Noguchi


This is the fictional diary of a young Japanese woman, first published in installments before being published in a single volume. The book d…

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (version 4)

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Charlotte Brontë


Jane Eyre is an extraordinary orphan girl who is treated horribly by her aunt Mrs. Reed and her children. She is sent away to a girl’s board…

Metamorfoze

Read by Marcel Coenders


Louis Couperus


-... Je verbergt je achter je woorden: je wikkelt je in je stijl als in een mantel. - Neen. Ik leef een metamorfoze. Meer niet. Ik geef meze…

The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire

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Thomas Wallace Knox


An engaging travelogue first published in 1886, written conversationally among two youths and their guide and mentor. Subtitle: Adventures o…

Marion, the Story of an Artist's Model

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Onoto Watanna


In this Asian/Canadian perspective on "foreignness," Marion (the protagonist) eventually leaves the cruelty of racial discriminati…

Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling

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Bertha Von Suttner


Die Waffen Nieder, in English: Lay Down Your Arms is a fictional biography, which describes four wars from the perspective of a soldier's wi…

Doctor Johnson: A Play

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A. Edward Newton


The life of Doctor Johnson, told in his own words and (mostly) those of others around him. "Anyone with a teaspoonful of imagination ca…

Catherine: A Story

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William Makepeace Thackeray


The wild and raw adventures of Catherine Hayes, who was burned for murder at Tyburn in 1742 - Summary by Mark Leder

Idomen, or The Vale of Yumuri

Read by Grant Hurlock


Maria Gowen Brooks


Idomen (1843) is the creative-nonfiction memoir of the beautiful and brilliant American poetess Maria Gowen Brooks, who was compared in the …

Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief

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James Fenimore Cooper


Take a fascinating journey from France to America through the "eyes" of a pocket handkerchief. She marvels at the vastness of the …

Jean-Christophe In Paris

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Romain Rolland


After fleeing to Paris, Jean-Christophe finds himself in great financial difficulty and takes up music teaching in wealthy families. As for …

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 1

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The novel is in eight books. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape …

Tattlings of a Retired Politician

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Forrest Crissey


"The letters (non-partisan) of Hon. William Bradley, Ex-Governor and former veteran of practical politics, written to his friend and pr…

Die Geschichte meines Zeitgenossen

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Vladimir Korolenko


Poetische Beschreibung der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse in der russischen Provinz des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts (mit teilweise au…

Memoirs of a London Doll

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Richard Henry Horne


This is a fictional work written in the early 20th century. The story is narrated by Maria Poppet, a doll with a unique consciousness, offer…

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