Biography & Autobiography

Institutes of the Christian Religion

by John Calvin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western worl…

Great Astronomers

by Robert Stawell Ball Read by MaryAnn 4.7
Of all the natural sciences there is not one which offers such sublime objects to the attention of the inquirer as does the science of astro…

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

by John Muir Read by Sue Anderson 4.7
"The only fire for the whole house was the kitchen stove, with a fire box about eighteen inches long and eight inches wide and deep,- s…

The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

by Marcus Aurelius Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Meditations is divided into 12 books that chronicle different periods of Marcus' life. Each book is not in chronological order and it wa…

Thirty Years A Slave

by Louis Hughes Read by James K. White 4.7
Louis Hughes was born a slave near Charlottesville, Virginia to a white father and a black slave woman. Throughout his life he worked mostly…

Henry Ford's Own Story

by Rose Wilder Lane Read by Lee Ann Howlett 4.8
Rose Wilder Lane was a newspaper reporter, free-lance writer, political activist, and the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the &q…

Confessions

by Saint Augustine of Hippo Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Confessions is a profound autobiographical work by St. Augustine of Hippo, composed in the late 4th century. This introspective narrative sp…

St. Francis of Assisi

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Phil Chenevert 4.6
For Chesterton, Francis of Assisi is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved th…

Autobiography of a Seaman

by Lord Thomas Cochrane Read by Timothy Ferguson 4.5
This two volume work is the autobiography of Lord Cochrane, a naval captain of the Napoleonic period. His adventures are seminal to the deve…

Great Inventors and Their Inventions

by Frank Puterbaugh Bachman and Frank P. Bachman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This book is about Great inventors and what they created. It has different stories like Alexander Bell, Wrights, Morse, Gutenberg, and Ediso…

Geronimo’s Story of His Life

by Geronimo Read by Sue Anderson 4.5
Geronimo’s Story of His Life is the oral life history of a legendary Apache warrior. Composed in 1905, while Geronimo was being held as a U.…

George Müller of Bristol

by Arthur T. Pierson Read by Dave Harrell 4.8
George Muller was a great hero of faith. His greatest aim was to demonstrate that God answers prayer and can be trusted for every minute det…

The Interior Castle

by St. Teresa of Avila Read by Ann Boulais 4.5
El Castillo Interior or Las Moradas (trans.:The Interior Castle or The Mansions) was written by Saint Teresa of Ávila in 1577. After …

Hero Tales from American History

by Theodore Roosevelt Read by David Leeson 4.7
Its purpose … is to tell in simple fashion the story of some Americans who showed that they knew how to live and how to die; who proved thei…

The Escaping Club

by A. J. Evans Read by Tom Weiss 4.6
Described by some as one of the greatest escape books published. The Escaping Club recounts Evans' escape to Switzerland from a supposedly &…

Remarkable Rogues

by Charles Kingston Read by David Wales 4.5
Remarkable Rogues offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of twenty individuals whose choices and actions defy conventional morality. Ea…

Saint Athanasius

by Frances Alice Forbes Read by pattymarie 4.8
A short and rather old fashioned biography a great saint. Don't expect subtlety; it's unapologetic hagiography. The saint is presented as a …

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan Read by MaryAnn 4.9
The Pilgrim's Progress is a profound Christian allegory that follows the journey of Christian, an everyman character, as he embarks on a que…

The Life of Cicero

by Anthony Trollope Read by Philippa 4.7
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the tu…

History of Julius Caesar

by Jacob Abbott Read by Cate Barratt 4.6
History of Julius Caesar offers a detailed exploration of one of history's most influential figures. Jacob Abbott delves into the life of Ju…

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