Memoirs

Notes of a War Correspondent

by Richard Harding Davis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Notes of a War Correspondent offers a vivid glimpse into the life of a journalist navigating the tumultuous landscapes of war. Richard Hardi…

Five Months at Anzac

by Joseph Lievesley Beeston Read by Annise 4.2
A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force . From his leaving Australi…

Mounted police life in Canada

by Richard Burton Deane Read by Esther 4.3
Learn more about the famous and respected Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This book is the personal recollections of one ‘Mountie'; his life,…

My Mother and I

by Elizabeth Gertrude Stern Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
Elizabeth Stern was two and a half years old, when her family emigrated from Poland to Pittsburgh. My Mother and I is the story of Stern's A…

The New-York Gardener

by P. Agricola Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
A series of twelve letters from a proud father to a son who has just bought his own farm. The author instructs "my dear son" not t…

A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis

by Noah Davis Read by Bryan Ness 4.3
The object of the writer, in preparing this account of himself, is toRAISE SUFFICIENT MEANS TO FREE HIS LAST TWO CHILDREN FROM SLAVERY.Havin…

Habits that Handicap

by Charles B. Towns Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Habits that Handicap delves into the complex world of addiction, exploring the psychological and social factors that contribute to alcoholis…

American Notes for General Circulation

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June, 1842. Wh…

The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth

by T. D. Bonner Read by Gary Olman 4.3
Buried amid the sublime passes of the Sierra Nevada are old men, who, when children, strayed away from our crowded settlements, and, gradual…

My Experiences as an Executioner

by James Berry Read by ashleighjane 4.6
From 1884 until 1891, James Berry was an executioner. In this time he carried out 131 hangings. In this memoir he writes about the methods h…

From the Darkness Cometh the Light

by Lucy Ann Delaney Read by James K. White 4.5
In From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom Delaney tells the story of how she was born into slavery of her mother--a fr…

I, Mary MacLane

by Mary Maclane Read by Lynne T 5
Described as "the first blogger", Mary MacLane lived a tortured life, ahead of her time. Her beloved father died when she was a yo…

The Journal of a Disappointed Man

by W. N. P. Barbellion Read by Adam Whybray 4.7
The journal of British naturalist Bruce Frederick Cummings, spanning from his early childhood through to his early death from complications …

Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush

by Susanna Moodie Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
As a middle class Englishwoman Moodie did not particularly enjoy "the bush", as she called it. She and her husband moved to Bellev…

The Life of Samuel Johnson

by James Boswell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, edito…

The Autobiography of George Dewey

by George Dewey Read by Delmar H Dolbier 4.7
Admiral George Dewey, United States Navy, is best remembered for his victory over the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay during the S…

On the Trail of The Immigrant

by Edward A. Steiner Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
How did the immigrants come to America? Who were they? What Where did they come from? In this book, Edward Steiner tells of the experiences…

Ambassador Morgenthau's Story

by Henry Morgenthau Read by Margaret Espaillat 4.3
Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important prima…

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

by Giacomo Casanova Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Giacomo Casanova (April 2, 1725 in Venice – June 4, 1798, in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, wr…

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

by Benvenuto Cellini Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as h…

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