Memoirs

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…

Our New Zealand Cousins

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James Inglis


A travelogue of a trip through New Zealand in 1885 with panegyric descriptions of the scenery, elucidations of the progress the country had …

Campaigns of Curiosity: Journalistic Adventures of an American Girl in London

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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 …

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 …

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…

A Life Unveiled, by a Child of the Drumlins

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Anonymous


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…

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…

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…

Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China

Read by Steve Cullen


Robert Fortune


An account by Scottish botanist of his journey to China to discover the secret of producing tea and securing plants for propagation outside…

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…

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 the Court of Marie Antoinette

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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…

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 …

Down In Water Street

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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…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 04

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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne


Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…

The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume IV

Read by Nicole Lee


François-René de Chateaubriand


After the extinction of Napoleon's comet on St Helena, Chateaubriand covers the Bourbon Restoration in this volume, meeting a dazzling array…

Secrets of the Friendly Woods

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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 …

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