Memoirs

A Journal from Japan

by Marie Stopes Read by Expatriate 4.4
Marie Stopes was a highly controversial scientist and activist in her era, campaigning for radical new views of love-based marriage, birth c…

A Small Boy and Others

by Henry James Read by mb 5
A Small Boy and Others offers a glimpse into the formative years of renowned author Henry James. In this autobiographical work, James reflec…

The Secret Service

by Albert Richardson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Albert Richardson was a reporter for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune when he volunteered to hazard an undercover journey through the Ameri…

War

by Pierre Loti Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud] (1850-1923) was a French naval officer and novelist. The present book is one of his few works of non-fiction, a s…

The Sword of Deborah

by F. Tennyson Jesse Read by MaryAnn 4.7
"The Sword of Deborah" contains the reflections of a woman journalist visiting women working behind the lines in France during Wor…

Careers of Danger and Daring

by Cleveland Moffett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
In this volume of adventure the author depicts the lives of certain humble modern heroes whose unconscious courage ordinarily goes unnoticed…

Childhood

by Leo Tolstoy Read by Expatriate 4.6
Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian l…

On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara

by Samuel Gamble Bayne Read by Frank Lennon 4.8
This book gives a brief glimpse into the social history of Ireland in the early part of the 20th Century. During his 1902 tour through the n…

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

by Benvenuto Cellini Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as h…

Tales Of The Royal Irish Constabulary

by Unknown Read by David Wales 3.9
The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC, simply called the Irish Constabulary 1836–67) was the armed police force of the United Kingdom in Ireland…

A Surgeon In Arms

by Robert James Manion Read by David Wales 4.1
Robert James Manion (1881-1943) was a Canadian doctor who volunteered in the Canadian medical corps during World War I. This book is his me…

An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army

by Flora Sandes Read by MaryAnn 4.6
Flora Sandes was the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War I. Initially a St. John Ambulance volunteer, she trave…

Kings, Queens and Pawns

by Mary Roberts Rinehart Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
A personal account of the American author's visit to Europe in January 1915 while a war correspondent in Belgium for The Saturday Evening Po…

Prelude

by Katherine Mansfield Read by iremonger 4.2
Prelude invites listeners into the evocative world of Katherine Mansfield's childhood in New Zealand, capturing the essence of youth and the…

Common Sense in the Household

by Marion Harland Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
This is a practical guide to running a household in 1883. Marion Harland not only walks us through a number of important topics such as how …

Walking In Faith

by Tim Greenwood Read by Tim Greenwood 4.8
My open-heart surgery had failed and the doctor’s told me that nothing more could be done. At age 45, I was diagnosed with terminal heart d…

Five Months at Anzac

by Joseph Lievesley Beeston Read by Annise 4.2
A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force . From his leaving Australi…

Screen Acting

by Mae Marsh Read by Amanda Friday 4.7
Silent film star, Mae Marsh, recounts her life as an actress in this publication, what she deems as being the answer to thousands of letters…

Prisoner for Blasphemy

by George William Foote Read by Rob Marland 3.8
George William Foote, a British secularist, was convicted and imprisoned on the charge of blasphemy after founding "The Freethinker&quo…

You Never Miss the Dopamine

by Bill Schmalfeldt Read by Bill Schmalfeldt 4.7
He's quickly becoming the Lewis Black of Parkinson's Disease. In a series of hilarious essays, Bill Schmalfeldt (author of "No Doorwa…

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