Memoirs

The Vagabond

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
The Vagabond is a poignant reflection on the allure of travel and the spirit of adventure, penned by the renowned author Robert Louis Steven…

Far Away and Long Ago

by William Henry Hudson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
William Henry Hudson was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. Hudson was born of U.S. parents living in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Ai…

Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper

by T. S. Arthur Read by Nathalie J. 3.9
Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper offers a humorous glimpse into the life of Mrs. Smith, a housekeeper who navigates the challenges an…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Take it From Dad

by George Livermore and George G. Livermore Read by Lee Smalley 4.4
Take It From Dad is a collection of letters written by a father to his son, Ted, at boarding school, away from home for the first time. In e…

The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier

by Charles E. Flandrau Read by LibriVox Volunteers 2.3
"It has been a little over fifty years since the organization of the Territory of Minnesota, which at its birth was a very small and un…

Specimen Days

by Walt Whitman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his e…

An Englishwoman's Love-Letters

by Laurence Housman Read by Esther 4
An Englishwoman's Love-Letters offers an intimate glimpse into the heart and mind of a woman whose private correspondence reveals the depth …

Certified - The True Story of David Harris

by David Harris Read by David Harris 4.3
Certified is the pacey, true life account of David Harris; how he went from typical Aussie kid to mentally deranged criminal, then experienc…

The Man Who Found the Truth

by Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev Read by Crln Yldz Ksr 4.5
An old man, accused of having murdered his family as a young man, spends a lifetime in prison. With brilliant psychological insight so chara…

My Reminiscences

by Rabindranath Tagore Read by bala 3.2
My Reminiscences offers a reflective glimpse into the life of Rabindranath Tagore, one of India's most celebrated literary figures. Written …

Child Life in Colonial Days

by Alice Morse Earle Read by Susan Morin 3.9
The accounts of old-time child life gathered for this book are wholly unconscious and full of honesty and simplicity, not only from the atti…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Explore a diverse array of short nonfiction pieces in this engaging collection, featuring works that span various topics and genres. Curated…

Autobiography of a Seaman

by Lord Thomas Cochrane Read by Timothy Ferguson 4.1
This second volume of the biography of Lord Cochrane deals with his fall from grace, imprisonment for debt, loss of honours, and attempts to…

Growth of a Soul

by August Strindberg Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright who has had many of his works read into LibriVox by volunteers. From his earliest work, Str…

The San Francisco Calamity

by Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The first half of this book describes the devastating earthquake that hit San Francisco in 1906, and the subsequent destruction caused by fi…

Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front

by William James McGlothlin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The title is, I think, self explanatory. The nurse in question went out to France at the beginning of the war and remained there until May 1…

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