Biography & Autobiography
Mrs. Piozzi's Thraliana
Read by Barbara Baker
Charles Hughes
"It is many years since Dr. Samuel Johnson advised me to get a little book, and write in it all the Anecdotes which might come to my kn…
Meine Reise um die Welt
Read by Katharina21
Mark Twain
Ein humoristischer Reisebericht über eine Reise von Australien nach Indien und Südafrika.(Zusammenfassung von Katharina21)
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
Read by Rita Boutros
Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…
Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket
Read by Phil Benson
Richard Gorton Barlow
R. G. "Dick" Barlow was one of the most accomplished all-round cricketers of the late 19th Century. For many years he opened the b…
Catharine de Bora
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John G. Morris
"There are many interesting and characteristic incidents in the domestic life of Luther which are not found in biographies of the great…
Milton
Read by Pamela Nagami
Thomas Babington Macaulay
John Milton (1608-1674) was an English poet, classicist, and fearless advocate for civil liberty, who served the Commonwealth of England und…
Charles II
Read by Pamela Nagami
Osmund Airy
This engaging book is an inestimable resource for any student of the merry monarch, Charles II. "Odd's fish," he said "I am a…
You Can't Win
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Jack Black
'You Can't Win' is an autobiography that was serialized in the San Francisco Call and Post (1925). It became so popular that it was publishe…
Daughter of the Sky
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Paul L. Briand, Jr.
This is an engaging biography of the renowned aviator. In his introduction, Briand says, " Amelia Earhart was one of America’s great he…
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…
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Various
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Biographies In Sound
Read by Fred Allen
Fred Allen narrates "Magnificent Rogue: The Adventures of W. C. Fields", featuring clips from many famous personalities recounting…
Hector Berlioz
Read by David Wales
Herbert Francis Peyser
How much more futile is it to attempt on the minuscule scale of the following tiny, if rambling, pamphlet to touch upon even a thousandth of…
An Alabama Student
Read by David Wales
Sir William Osler
Here are thirteen biographical sketches of physicians penned by one of the founders of modern medicine, William Osler, published in 1908. &…
Henry James At Work
Read by David Wales
Theodora Bosanquet
Bosanquet (1880-1961) was secretary or amanuensis to James from 1907 to his death in 1916. She wrote this essay (1924) eight years after hi…
Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad
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William Alexander MacKay
By Zorra, in the following sketches, is meant a little district in Oxford county, Ontario, some ten miles square, composed of part of East a…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…
A Book of Sibyls
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
This book is a biography of four woman authors whose names were well known by readers at the time of its publication (1883) : Anna Barbaud, …
The Life of Washington
Read by Jim Locke
John James Marshall
Volume five of John Marshall's biography follows Washington through his second term ending in the election of John Adams and Washington's re…