Memoirs

Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum

by Mary Huestis Pengilly Read by Elaine Webb 3.6
Mary Pengilly was taken to a Lunatic Asylum by her sons where she kept a diary, which this book is taken from. Mary records the harsh condit…

The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton

by Horatio Nelson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Explore the intimate correspondence between one of Britain's most celebrated naval heroes, Horatio Nelson, and his beloved, Lady Hamilton. T…

Great Chicago Fire

by Charles Cole Hine Read by Maria Kasper 3.8
In the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Charles Cole Hine provides a detailed account of the disaster that reshaped a city and i…

Football Days

by William Hanford Edwards Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3
Football Days offers a nostalgic glimpse into the early years of American football, capturing the spirit of a sport that was just beginning …

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys Read by Nicole Lee 3.7
Samuel Pepys was the first Secretary to the Admiralty during the reign of Charles II, instrumental in developing the Royal Navy and witness …

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte

by Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.3
The author and Napoleon become boyhood friends when they are eight years old in Corsica. They separate when Napoleon is transferred from the…

The Black Prophet

by William Carleton Read by James E. Carson 3.8
The Black Prophet transports listeners to Ireland on the brink of the devastating famine of 1847. Through the eyes of a narrator who intimat…

My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum

by Herman Charles Merivale Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
Fully titled My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum, by a Sane Patient, this memoir describes its author's, Herman Merivale's, experience in one…

The Doctor's Christmas Eve

by James Lane Allen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
The Doctor's Christmas Eve offers a reflective glimpse into the life of a fictional country doctor as the year comes to a close. Set against…

Cats

by W. Gordon Stables Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
How true is the old saw: "Dogs have families, but cats have staff"? Cats have been favorite domestic pets for thousands of years. …

Letters to a Daughter

by Helen Ekin Starrett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
Helen Ekin Starrett, journalist, mother of two daughters, grandmother of seven granddaughters and teacher to many young girls at the Starret…

A Waterbiography

by Robert C. Leslie Read by Peter Kelleher 3.4
Robert C. Leslie (1826-1901) was an artist and writer who, at an early age fell in love with the sea, the sea of Sail, not of Steam. He desc…

Lost and Not Found

by Teel McClanahan III Read by Teel McClanahan III 3.7
Lost and Not Found details one man’s journey all the way from being laid off from his mundane corporate job to becoming the author he truly …

Pushing Leaves Towards the Sun

by Mark L Berry Read by Mark L Berry 3.4
When Oso gets yanked off his motorcycle and killed by a closed parking lot chain, Billy feels guilty for having taught him to hop curbs and …

My Hunt After 'The Captain'

by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read by David Wales 3.4
Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally publ…

A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia

by Ellen Clacy Read by Annise 2.7
"If you have visions of a middle-aged parasol-bearing lady smiling sweetly from her carriage as she tours Bendigo think again. In 1852,…

The English Governess at the Siamese Court

by Anna Harriette Leonowens 2.5
1862 Anna Leonowens accepted an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, k…

Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne

by Dorothy Osborne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
A lively, interesting and important collection of 17th century love-letters written by an English lady, against the background of the Civil …

How to Avoid Positive Stinking

by Vic Zarley Read by Vic Zarley 2.7
13 short vignettes to help the Christian take a deeper walk with the Lord as well as help the curious understand how Christianity is really …

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys Read by Nicole Lee 2.6
Samuel Pepys was the first Secretary to the Admiralty during the reign of Charles II, instrumental in developing the Royal Navy and witness …

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