Memoirs

A Confederate Girl's Diary

by Sarah Morgan Dawson Read by Jacquerie 4.6
Sarah Morgan Dawson was a young woman of 20 living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when she began this diary. The American Civil War was raging. …

Fifty Years in Chains

by Charles Ball Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Fifty Years in Chains is a powerful memoir that recounts the harrowing experiences of Charles Ball, an American slave born in 1780. Through …

Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington Read by Andrew Kennedy 4.8
Up from Slavery is the autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington, describing his personal path up from the position of a slave…

The Letters of Jane Austen

by Jane Austen Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.8
This recording includes a selection of Jane Austen's letters, edited by Susan Coolidge and chosen from the collection of Austen's great-neph…

The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival

by Kate Percival Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
This surprisingly explicit sample of Victorian erotica follows the sexual awakening and subsequent adventures of its author, Kate Percival, …

According to Promise

by Charles H. Spurgeon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Charles Haddon (C.H.) Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher and is still known today as the &q…

Meister Eckhart's Sermons

by Meister Eckhart Read by Eric Metzler 4.8
In Meister Eckhart's Sermons, the profound insights of a medieval philosopher-theologian come to life through a collection of seven thought-…

Tom Brown's School Days

by Thomas Hughes Read by icyjumbo (1964-2010) 4.8
Tom Brown's Schooldays is a novel by Thomas Hughes first published in 1857. The story is set at Rugby School, a public school for boys, in t…

High Adventure

by James Norman Hall Read by John W. Michaels 4.6
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall; you will find this book although an exciting narrative has an unp…

Four Mothers at Chautauqua

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.8
Final book in the Chautauqua Girls series. The four original girls return to Chautauqua on the 25 year anniversary of the trip that changed …

Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War

by Ambrose Bierce Read by Winston Tharp 4.7
At the outset of the American Civil War, [the writer Ambrose] Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment....In Februa…

Mrs. Solomon Smith Looking On

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.7
Old Mrs. Solomon Smith considers herself "nothing but an ignorant old woman" who didn't have the advantages others did when growin…

The Worst Journey in the World

by Apsley Cherry-Garrard Read by Kevin Green 4.7
The Worst Journey in the World is a gripping memoir that recounts the harrowing experiences of the 1910–1913 British Antarctic Expedition, l…

Ten Days in a Madhouse

by Nellie Bly Read by Alys AtteWater 4.5
In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young reporter who would soon go on to make a career for herself as an …

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole

by Mary Seacole Read by Cori Samuel 4.4
I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which…

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan Read by Joy Chan 4.6
Translated into over 100 languages, The Pilgrim's Progress is one of the most famous classics of literature. It is an allegorical novel, des…

Boots and Saddles

by Elizabeth Bacon Custer Read by Sue Anderson 4.5
Elizabeth Custer has penned an engaging portrait of 1870’s life on a U.S. cavalry post in the Dakotas, just before her husband and his troop…

Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation

by Frances Anne Kemble and Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble Read by James K. White 4.8
Fanny Kemble was a British actress who married mega-plantation owner, Pierce Butler of Georgia. During her marriage she kept journals of eve…

California Coast Trails

by Joseph Smeaton Chase Read by Adrian Praetzellis 4.8
In 1911, decades before California's coast Highway 1 was built, an Englishman rode 2000 miles on horseback the length of California, from Me…

My Life and Work

by Henry Ford Read by LivelyHive 4.7
Henry Ford profiles the events that shaped his personal philosophy, and the challenges he overcame on the road to founding the Ford Motor Co…

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