Memoirs

South African Memories

by Lady Sarah Wilson Read by SallyMc 4.6
Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she …

Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read by Martin Geeson 4.5
“The smallest, the most trifling pleasure that is conveniently within my reach, tempts me more than all the joys of paradise.”Here again is …

The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise

by Pierre Abélard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Heloise was a strong-willed and gifted woman who was fluent in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and came from a lower social standing than Abelard. …

The Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner

by George-Günther Von Forstner Read by Sue Anderson 4.3
The Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner is a graphic account of WWI submarine warfare. Forstner was the commander of German U-boat U…

Tales of a Traveller

by Washington Irving Read by Greg Giordano 4.6
Writing under the pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, Washington Irving chronicled his travels through Europe in the early 1820’s. He wrote of peopl…

Selected Letters of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal

by Saint Jane Frances De Chantal Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572 – 1641) is a Roman Catholic Saint, who founded The Congregation of the Visitation after the death of her…

A Year With the Saints

by Anonymoustranslated Bya Member Of The Order Of Mercy, Anonymoustranslated By A Member Of The Order Of Mercy and William James McGlothlin Read by Maria Therese 4.6
Go through the year in the footsteps of the saints. This book emphasizes one virtue for each month with quotes and stories from the lives of…

The Paradise, or Garden of the Holy Fathers

by Palladius Read by ancientchristian 4.8
The Desert Fathers were early Christian hermits, ascetics, and monks who mainly lived in the Scetes desert of Egypt. The most famous was St.…

De Profundis

by Oscar Wilde Read by AdamH 4.5
This is a letter written from prison in 1897 by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, in which he recounts how he came to be in prison and cha…

My School Days

by E. Nesbit Read by Cori Samuel 4.6
A short memoir about the author's school days, serialised in The Girl's Own Paper from October 1896 to September 1897. It includes stories a…

The Life of God in the Soul of Man

by Henry Scougal Read by J L Raimundo 4.7
Henry Scougal was born in Scotland in 1650. The son of the Bishop of Aberdeen, he flourished under rigorous teaching to become Professor of …

Diary of an S and M Romance

by Dollie Llama Read by Dollie Llama 4
The first-ever adult title on Podiobooks.com. "Diary of an S and M Romance" is the true story of a young widow reclaiming her lif…

Living on Half a Dime a Day

by Sarah Elizabeth Harper Monmouth Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
How to live on 5 cents a day! How to survive financial ruin without losing your house! How to keep to a bare bones budget and still have mon…

The Story of a Soul

by Saint Therese Of Lisieux Read by Ann Boulais 4.4
Marie Francoise Therese Martin, affectionately known as 'The Little Flower', was born on January 2, 1873, in Alencon, France to Louis Martin…

The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate

by Eliza P. Donner Houghton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the "westering fever" of the 1840s. After becoming…

A Rogue's Life

by Wilkie Collins Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
"[T]he story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles Dickens f…

A New England Girlhood

by Lucy Larcom Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Lucy Larcom was an American poet, teacher, and mill-worker. According to Wikipedia: "Larcom served as a model for the change in women's…

A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay

by Watkin Tench Read by tabithat 4.6
A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay offers a firsthand account of the early days of European settlement in Australia, as seen throug…

A Gold Hunter's Experience

by Chalkley J. Hambleton Read by Sue Anderson 4.2
"Early in the summer of 1860, I had an attack of gold fever. In Chicago, the conditions for such a malady were all favorable. Since t…

The Backwoods of Canada

by Catharine Parr Traill Read by Esther 4.5
The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of settlers to cultivate all the mental resources of a superi…

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