Memoirs

Station Life in New Zealand

by Mary Anne Barker Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan 4.4
Station Life in New Zealand is a collection of cheerful and interesting letters written by Lady Mary Anne Barker (nee Mary Anne Stewart) tha…

The Minor Works of St Teresa of Avila

by St. Teresa of Avila Read by Ann Boulais 4.6
The prayer and Exclamations, or Meditations, of St Teresa of Avila, recorded in honor of the 500th anniversary of the Saint's birth (March 2…

The Amateur Emigrant

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Annise 4.5
In July 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson left Scotland to meet his future wife in her native California. Leaving by ship from Glasgow, Scotland,…

A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates

by Fanny Loviot Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This thrilling narrative recounts the true story of Fanny Loviot, a wealthy, young French girl who was kidnapped at sea. After setting sail …

The Mother and the Child

by Maria Montessori Read by Edith van der Have-Raats 4.4
In this insightful lecture from 1915, renowned educational reformer Maria Montessori explores the profound relationship between mothers and …

Boyhood

by Leo Tolstoy Read by Bill Boerst 4.4
Boyhood offers a poignant glimpse into the formative years of one of literature's greatest minds, Leo Tolstoy. This autobiographical novel c…

The Spring of Joy

by Mary Webb Read by NoelBadrian 5
Mary Webb was a novelist and poet and two of her novels "Gone to Earth" and "Precious Bane" have been successfully adapt…

Eighteen Months' Imprisonment

by Donald Shaw Read by Lee Smalley 3.9
This is an absorbing memoir of an inmate's experiences and impressions while in a London prison. He describes himself as "a man of educ…

Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon

by Austen Layard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Austen Henry Layard is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace re…

Travel Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
A collection of short, non-fiction travel memoirs or guides written in, or translated into, English. Material covered might be a museum, a v…

My Brilliant Career

by Miles Franklin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Sybella: "There is no plot in this story, because there has been none in my life or in any other life which has come under my notice. I…

The Bee-Master of Warrilow

by Tickner Edwardes Read by Steve C 4.8
"Is it true that a bee can only sting once?" I asked him, as he bent again over the crocus beds.He laughed."What would be the…

The Go-Getter

by Peter B. Kyne Read by Scott Dahlem 4.4
The Go-Getter tells the inspiring story of a determined disabled veteran who navigates the challenges of civilian life with unwavering persi…

Deciphering the Golden Flower

by JJ Semple Read by JJ Semple 4.2
JJ Semple doesn’t just wake up one day and say to himself, “I’m going to crack the coded mysteries in The Secret of the Golden Flower.” He s…

Habits that Handicap

by Charles B. Towns Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Habits that Handicap delves into the complex world of addiction, exploring the psychological and social factors that contribute to alcoholis…

A Woman's Experiences in the Great War

by Louise Mack Read by Expatriate 4.9
An eye-witness account of the fall of Antwerp to the Germans in the opening months of World War I, Mack’s story has passages of extraordinar…

First Successful Ascent of Mt. Rainier

by Hazard Stevens Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
Hazard Stevens and P.B. Van Trump, aided by the Indian guide Sluiskin, made the first documented successful ascent of Mt. Rainier on August …

The Humbugs of the World

by P. T. Barnum Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witc…

Our Cats and All About Them

by Harrison Weir Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Englishman Harrison Weir organized the first cat show in England in 1871. In 1887 he founded the National Cat Club and was its first Pre…

The Life and Adventures of Venture

by Venture Smith Read by Bill Boerst 4.6
Venture Smith was an African captured as a child and transported to the American colonies to be sold as a slave. As an adult, he purchased h…

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