Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Lost Diaries
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Maurice Baring
Within these pages find passages from the "lost diaries" of a wide range of people: royal, regular, famous, infamous, historical…
Tommy and Grizel
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J. M. Barrie
This book continues Sentimental Tommy, also in the Librivox catalogue. Tommy grows up and marries Grizel. But life is not only roses and rai…
The Newcomes
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William Makepeace Thackeray
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of such works as Vanity Fair, The …
Rezanov
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Gertrude Atherton
This novel by the prolific Californian author Gertrude Horn Atherton is based on the real life story of Nikolai Rezanov, a man who, in 1806,…
Dialogues of the Dead
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George Lyttelton
Can the dead of different ages and spaces meet in the afterlife? This is a thought that has occupied a number of writers throughout literatu…
Orlando, A Biography
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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking satire of British culture, customs, literature, philosophy, and politics from the Elizabethan era to the aut…
John Gutenberg, First Master Printer
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Franz Von Dingelstedt
This is a brief sketch of the last years of the life of Johannes (John) Gutenberg, the man who invented the movable letter press. We join hi…
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
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James Hogg
An early example of a psychological mystery and modern crime fiction, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner details the …
Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches
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Edwin Eastman
Best described as a fictional autobiography, Clark Johnson authored the following adventure to promote the sale of his brand of Homeopathic …
A Dweller on Two Planets
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Fredrick Spencer Oliver
A channeled autobiography of a spirit calling himself Phylos the Thibetan. The setting is Atlantis with a first person account of Atlantean…
Benigna Machiavelli
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
In between "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) and Herland (1915), feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) wrote and published thi…
Jeremy And Hamlet
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Hugh Walpole
Hamlet is Jeremy’s dog. This 1923 book is Hugh Walpole’s second volume in his Jeremy semi-autobiographical trilogy (Jeremy (1919 available a…
Agnes Sorel
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George Payne Rainsford James
The Hundred Years' War: a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against…
Violet Osborne
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Emily Ponsonby
"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…
Arabella Stuart
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George Payne Rainsford James
Lady Arabella Stuart was an English noblewoman at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At one time considered to be a possible successo…
Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer
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Richard Steele
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…
Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre is an extraordinary orphan girl who is treated horribly by her aunt Mrs. Reed and her children. She is sent away to a girl’s board…
Jean-Christophe
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Romain Rolland
The central character, Jean-Christophe Krafft, is a German musician of Belgian extraction, a composer of genius whose life is depicted from …
Days With Sir Roger de Coverley
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Joseph Addison
The author Sir Richard Steele, who was one of the writers for The Spectator, gets the opportunity to spend a month in Sir Roger de Coverley'…
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl
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Yone Noguchi
This is the fictional diary of a young Japanese woman, first published in installments before being published in a single volume. The book d…