Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer

by Richard Steele Read by Elijah Fisher 2.5
Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac-maker and astrol…

Mary of Burgundy

by George Payne Rainsford James Read by Lynne T 2
Fifteenth century Europe was a time of political upheaval and uncertainty. Mary of Burgundy of the House of Valois ruled over a collection o…

Mary: A Fiction

by Mary Wollstonecraft Read by TriciaG 3.4
Mary: A Fiction, published in 1788, is a tragic story that decries marriages not based on love. It can be considered an example of feminist …

The Wing of Azrael

by Mona Caird Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3
Mona Caird, a British writer and feminist, criticized in numerous non-fiction writings the state of marriage as it existed in her time. Her …

Lost and Not Found

by Teel McClanahan III Read by Teel McClanahan III 3.7
Lost and Not Found details one man’s journey all the way from being laid off from his mundane corporate job to becoming the author he truly …

Other Things Being Equal

by Emma Wolf Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3
Ruth Levice, the daughter of a rich San Francisco Jewish merchant, meats Dr. Herbert Kemp, and they slowly fall in love. However, she is Jew…

Danny's Own Story

by Don Marquis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
Danny is the proverbial basket-on-the-doorstep baby, found by Hank and Elmira Walters, a childless couple who welcome him into their home be…

The Wing of Azrael

by Mona Caird Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Mona Caird, a British writer and feminist, criticized in numerous non-fiction writings the state of marriage as it existed in her time. Her …

Idomen, or The Vale of Yumuri

by Maria Gowen Brooks Read by Grant Hurlock
Idomen (1843) is the creative-nonfiction memoir of the beautiful and brilliant American poetess Maria Gowen Brooks, who was compared in the …

The Adventures of Coyote Man

by Jason Pomerantz Read by Jason Pomerantz 3.5
Part comedy. Part soap opera. A fiction blog. A serialized sit-com. A daily comic strip in prose. When Rantz takes a job as Circulation Di…

Violet Osborne

by Emily Ponsonby Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3
"This book is in turns funny and sad. Violet Osborne is a very beloved child with no financial problems. She is both beautiful and good…

Windy McPherson's Son

by Sherwood Anderson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 1
Windy McPherson's Son is the story of Sam McPherson's rise in the world of business and search for emotional enlightenment in later life. Mc…

My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's

by Marietta Holley Read by TriciaG
. . . a voice kept a sayin' inside of me, "Josiah Allen's wife, write a book givin' your views on the great subject of Wimmen's Rites.&…

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