Biography & Autobiography

Lives of Girls Who Became Famous

by Sarah Knowles Bolton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Lives of Girls Who Became Famous offers a captivating glimpse into the lives of remarkable women who shaped history through their talents an…

Cleopatra

by Jacob Abbott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott offers a captivating exploration of one of history's most enigmatic figures. This biography delves into the life o…

Behind the Scenes

by Elizabeth Keckley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventua…

Auguste Comte and Positivism

by John Stuart Mill Read by Bill Boerst 4.9
Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines th…

Great Englishwomen

by M. B. Synge Read by Laura Caldwell 4.5
Great Englishwomen is a collection of biographies of some of the greatest women in England's history. Women who were leaders of their countr…

Selected Letters of Ludwig van Beethoven

by Ludwig Van Beethoven Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Explore the intimate thoughts and reflections of one of history's greatest composers in Selected Letters of Ludwig van Beethoven. This colle…

The Facts of Reconstruction

by John R. Lynch Read by Guero 4.9
After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justi…

Five Years of My Life

by Alfred Dreyfus Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French Army was court martialed in 1894 on a trumped up charge of treason and condemned to life impr…

The Meaning of the Glorious Koran

by Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Koran (Qur'an) is regarded by Muslims as the word of God (Allah) as revealed to the prophet Muhammad. It is divided into 114 chapters (…

The Training of a Forester

by Gifford Pinchot Read by KHand 4.3
Written by a forester, this book looks at the definition of "forest", what the life of a forester entails, discusses the forest se…

The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex

by Charles Darwin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
III. SEXUAL SELECTION IN RELATION TO MAN, AND CONCLUSION.Part 3 of 3 of a book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, …

The Biography of a Prairie Girl

by Eleanor Gates Read by Teresa Bauman 3.9
This book is a wonderful way to learn about how the prairies were years ago, but you will hardly feel you are learning because you will be c…

Sherman’s Military Lessons Of The American Civil War

by William Tecumseh Sherman Read by David Wales 4
This LibriVox recording comprises chapter 25 (Conclusion – Military Lessons Of The War) of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memo…

Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous

by Sarah Knowles Bolton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
These characters have been chosen from various countries and from varied professions, that the youth who read this book may see that poverty…

The Trial of Oscar Wilde

by William James McGlothlin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
In 1895 Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years' hard labor. This account of his two trials was compiled fro…

Art and Morality

by Stuart Mason Read by Martin Geeson 4.9
“Who can help laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist?”“We are dom…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects

by Giorgio Vasari Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…

Ten Days that Shook the World

by John Reed Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Ten Days that Shook the World (1919) is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917…

Karl Marx

by Harold J. Laski Read by Phil Benson 3.9
Born in Manchester in 1893, Harold Laski was a leading figure in the left-wing of British socialism in the first half of the 20th century. A…

The Story of Old France

by H. A. Guerber Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The aim of this volume is to give a complete graphic account of the main features of the history of France to 1715 A.D., with as much additi…

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