Memoirs
- Voices from the Battlefield
- Pioneering Journeys: Memoirs of Exploration
- Voices of War: Memoirs from the Battlefield
- Voices of Faithful Servants
- Faithful Journeys: Christian Memoirs
- Voices of Resilience
Thomas Wingfold, Curate
Republished in modern times as "The Curate's Awakening". A young man (Thomas Wingfold) "enters the church" through no re…
From the Deep Woods to Civilization
From the Deep Woods to Civilization is the sequel to Indian Boyhood. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) gives his account of what it was like to tran…
A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba
In 1881, Mrs. Cecil Hall's brother went to Manitoba to farm. In 1882, she went out for a visit of some two months, and followed that visit w…
Quicksand
Quicksand is a 1928 novel by Nella Larsen, a writer of the Harlem Renaissance. It focuses on Helga Crane, a mixed-race woman who is a school…
Miss Priscilla Hunter, and My Daughter Susan
Two shorter stories in one book. In "Miss Priscilla Hunter," the church has been carrying debt for years. It's an embarrassment, a…
Ben, The Luggage Boy
Ben, after running away from home, must find a way to survive on the streets. According to the preface, the book was based on a true story t…
The Alpine Path
L.M. Montgomery's autobiography highlighting her childhood and early literary career. Published in 1917 after she had written several novels…
Tom Brown's School Days
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…
Roughing It in the Bush
'Roughing It In the Bush' is Susanna Moodie's account of how she coped with the harshness of life in the woods of Upper Canada, as an Englis…
Fifty Years in Chains
Fifty Years in Chains is a powerful memoir that recounts the harrowing experiences of Charles Ball, an American slave born in 1780. Through …
My Confession
"My Confession" is a brief autobiographical story of Leo Tolstoy's struggle with a mid-life existential crisis of melancholia. It …
Elizabeth and her German Garden
Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, first published in 1898; it was very popular and frequently reprinted dur…
Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex
Owen Chase (October 7, 1797 – March 7, 1869) was First Mate of the whale ship Essex, that was struck and sunk by a sperm whale on October 28…
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole
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…
Boots and Saddles
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…
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
“Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty Opium!”Though apparently presenting the reader with a collage of poignant memori…
Parochial and Plain Sermons
John Henry Newman's sermons enter the human heart easily and with transformative power. Lucid thinking, beautiful English prose, an integra…
Bullets & Billets
A front-line view of life in the trenches of the Western Front in the early part of 1914-1915. Told by Lieutenant (later Captain) Bruce Bair…
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail is a vivid memoir that transports listeners to the early 19th century, chronicling the experiences of Ezra …
The Diary of a Provincial Lady
“Notice, and am gratified by, large clump of crocuses near the front gate. Should like to make whimsical and charming reference to these and…