Category Archives: Biography & Autobiography
Audiobook: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
Isabella Bird began travelling while in her early twenties to help alleviate illness that had
Audiobook: The Boys’ Life of Mark Twain
Albert Bigelow Paine was Samuel Langhorne Clemens’ (Mark Twain’s) biographer. He lived with Twain, collecting
Audiobook: The Art of Money Getting
Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman,
Audiobook: Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln. A Book for Young Americans
Written for children, James Baldwin’s history of Washington, Franklin, Webster, and Lincoln brings these men
Audiobook: Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions
Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently
Audiobook: History of Julius Caesar
The book chronicles the extraordinary life and leadership of Rome’s Emperor Julius Caesar, from his
Audiobook: Early Kings of Norway
“The Icelanders, in their long winter, had a great habit of writing; and were, and
Audiobook: My Mark Twain
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) became fast friends with Mark Twain from the moment in 1869
Audiobook: Who Was Who: 5000 BC – 1914
A short, humorous biography of famous people from 5000 BC to 1914. — S. McGaughey
Audiobook: Hero Tales from American History
Its purpose … is to tell in simple fashion the story of some Americans who
Audiobook: Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
Grace Abounding is the spiritual autobiography of John Bunyan, who also penned Pilgrim’s Progress, perhaps
Audiobook: The Story of a Soul
Marie Francoise Therese Martin, affectionately known as ‘The Little Flower’, was born on January 2,
Audiobook: The World I Live In
The World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly
Audiobook: Celebrated Crimes
Dumas’s ‘Celebrated Crimes’ was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language —
Audiobook: My First Summer in the Sierra
The journal of nature-lover John Muir who spent the summer of 1869 walking California’s Sierra
Audiobook: The Pirates Own Book
Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers.
Audiobook: Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, translated by Bernadotte Perrin (1847-1920)
Plutarch’s “Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Volume 1, translated by Bernadotte Perrin.
Audiobook: The Life of Samuel Johnson
Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever
Audiobook: Richard I
There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person
Audiobook: Army Letters from an Officer’s Wife, 1871-1888
“There appeared from the bushes in front of me, and right in the path, two
Audiobook: High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall; you will
Audiobook: A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man
The object of the writer, in preparing this account of himself, is to RAISE SUFFICIENT
Audiobook: The Life of St. Teresa
Saint Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de
Audiobook: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
“In preparing these volumes for the public, I have entered upon the task with the
Audiobook: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
“Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty Opium!” Though apparently presenting
Audiobook: Dog-Watches at Sea
Stanton H. King was from Barbados and followed his brothers to sea at the age
Audiobook: The Death of Lord Nelson
“The Surgeon of the late illustrious Lord NELSON feels himself called upon, from the responsible
Audiobook: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
This is the story of Mary Rowlandson’s capture by American Indians in 1675. It is
Audiobook: The Life of Honorable William F. Cody
The life and adventures of Honorable William F. Cody–Buffalo Bill–as told by himself, make up
Audiobook: Far Away and Long Ago
William Henry Hudson (August 1841 – 1922) was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. Hudson was