Memoirs
Campaigns of Curiosity: Journalistic Adventures of an American Girl in London
Read by TriciaG
Elizabeth L. Banks
Elizabeth Banks was an American journalist who, at about age 23, moved to London. While trying to break into English journalism and to keep …
Travels in Brazil, Volume 2
Read by KevinS
Henry Koster
A well-written and informative first-hand account of a young man's travels within Brazil during the period shortly before Brazil's independe…
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette
Read by Celine Major
Henriette Campan
Introduced into the royal household as court reader at the age of 15 and later rising to the office of first lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoin…
Familie en kennissen
Read by Marcel Coenders
Piet Paaltjens
De schrijver François Haverschmidt is het best bekend van zijn dichtbundel ‘Snikken en Grimlachjes’, dat werd gepubliceerd onder het …
A Life Unveiled, by a Child of the Drumlins
Read by PhyllisV
William James McGlothlin
A memoir of a young woman, who lived in the late 19th century in the United States. Starting with her pastoral youth and progressing through…
Kidnapped in London
Read by Matthew McNaughton
Sun Yat-sen and Sun Yat-Sen
Sun Yat-Sen was the first president of the Republic of China after the brutal Qing government collapsed in 1911. Over a decade earlier, he h…
Schetsen uit Amerika
Read by Marcel Coenders
Charles Dickens
"Schetsen uit Amerika", een Nederlandse vertaling van "American Notes" (vertaler onbekend), is een reisverslag van Charl…
The Red Flower
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Henry van Dyke
LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Red Flower by Henry van Dyke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 11, 2012.Dr. H…
Letters from a Prairie Garden
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Edna W. Underwood
The "Letters from a Prairie Garden," are genuine letters and not fiction. They went through the mail. An explanatory word about th…
There Was a Cherry-Tree
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James Whitcomb Riley
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of There Was a Cherry-Tree by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 1…
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume II
Read by Nicole Lee
François-René de Chateaubriand
Volume II of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, translated by Teixeira de Mattos. This volume covers the period from his return t…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 04
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…
Far Away and Long Ago - A History of My Early Life (Version 2)
Read by John Greenman
William Henry Hudson
A boy (between the ages of 4 and 12) discovers the natural world around him in his home in the Argentine Pampas and in Buenos Aires. Author …
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume III
Read by Nicole Lee
François-René de Chateaubriand
The third volume of Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb covers the spectacular fall, exile, and …
Secrets of the Friendly Woods
Read by KevinS
Rex Brasher
Rex Brasher is best known for his having painted in watercolor a complete set of all the extant American birds during his lifetime. This is …
Down In Water Street
Read by KHand
Samuel Hopkins Hadley
Written by the Superintendent of the Jerry McAuley Water Street Mission, "Down in Water Street" is intended to share some of the e…
Memories of My Life
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Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt was a popular French actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries…