Biography & Autobiography - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
''Tell It All'': The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism - Fanny Stenhouse
''Tell It All'': The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism - Fanny Stenhouse
- Author: Fanny Stenhouse
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History / Modern (19th C)
Fanny relates the experiences of a 19th century missionary as she and her young husband proselytize throughout Europe in search of converts to the new Mormon faith. Her religious zeal is sorely tested upon receipt of news from America revealing that...
Auguste Comte and Positivism - John Stuart Mill
Auguste Comte and Positivism - John Stuart Mill
- Author: John Stuart Mill
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines the tenets of Comte's movement and alerts us to defects. Part 2 concerns all Comte's writings except the Cours...
The Autobiography of Mother Jones - Mary Harris Jones
The Autobiography of Mother Jones - Mary Harris Jones
- Author: Mary Harris Jones
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) was a legendary labor organizer. She was a founding member of the International Workers of the World (the IWW, or the Wobblies), and was active in the United Mine Workers and the Socialist Party of America. (Summary...
Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum - Mary Huestis Pengilly
Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum - Mary Huestis Pengilly
- Author: Mary Huestis Pengilly
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Mary Pengilly was taken to a Lunatic Asylum by her sons where she kept a diary, which this book is taken from. Mary records the harsh conditions and treatments received at the hands of the nurses during her stay. Once Mary is released she takes it...
The Adventures of Buffalo Bill - Col. William F. Cody
The Adventures of Buffalo Bill - Col. William F. Cody
- Author: Col. William F. Cody
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Buffalo Bill was arguably, the most recognized man in the world when he penned this book. The first four stories are of some of his adventures and the remaining 6 are autobiographical. All of them have been proved to be historically accurate in all...
Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus - Xenophon
Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus - Xenophon
- Author: Xenophon
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The Cyropaedia (or Cyropedia) is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, written in the early 4th century BC by the Athenian gentleman-soldier, and student of Socrates, Xenophon of Athens. The title Cyropaedia derives from Greek, meaning...
Escape From The Confederacy - Benjamin F. Hasson
Escape From The Confederacy - Benjamin F. Hasson
- Author: Benjamin F. Hasson
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Benjamin F Hasson was a Union officer in the Civil War of the United States. After being captured by the Confederacy, he escaped from a prison train taking prisoners to the infamous Andersonville prison. The short book points up Hassonβs ingenuity...
The Boys Life of Mark Twain - Albert Bigelow Paine
The Boys Life of Mark Twain - Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Albert Bigelow Paine was Samuel Langhorne Clemens' (Mark Twain's) biographer. He lived with Twain, collecting ideas and material for a biography, for a few years before Twain's death in 1910. Six years later Paine published this "story of a man who...
The Mirror of the Sea - Joseph Conrad
The Mirror of the Sea - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
The Mirror of the Sea (collection of autobiographical essays first published in various magazines 1904-6 ), 1906 (Summary from Wikipedia)...
Boyhood - Leo Tolstoy
Boyhood - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Boyhood is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, published in a literary journal during the 1850s. (Introduction by Bill Boerst)...
Herndon's Lincoln - William H. Herndon
Herndon's Lincoln - William H. Herndon
- Author: William H. Herndon
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
A biography of Abraham Lincoln by his long-time law partner, William Herndon and Herndon's collaborator, Jesse Weik. The book is notable for its extensive use of first hand interviews (unusual for its time) and for Herndon's overriding determination...
The General History of the Pyrates - Captain Charles Johnson
The General History of the Pyrates - Captain Charles Johnson
- Author: Captain Charles Johnson
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book containing biographies of contemporary pirates. It's author uses the name Captain Charles Johnson, generally considered a pseudonym.The real identity of the...
A Day With Great Poets - May Gillington Byron
A Day With Great Poets - May Gillington Byron
- Author: May Gillington Byron
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Who was John Milton? The author of Paradise Lost you say? Well, certainly, but he was also a man, going about his daily life like any of us in 17th century England, (except that he was a genius of course). Take time to read about a day in his life...
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers - Elbert Hubbard
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers - Elbert Hubbard
- Author: Elbert Hubbard
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings may have influenced them. These short essays are part biography and part pontification of Hubbard's opinion of...
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania - John Dickinson
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania - John Dickinson
- Author: John Dickinson
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania is a series of essays written by the Pennsylvania lawyer and legislator John Dickinson (1732β1808) and published under the name "A Farmer" from 1767 to 1768. The twelve letters were widely read and reprinted...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 3: Mary Stuart (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 3: Mary Stuart (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
The contents of these volumes of 'Celebrated Crimes', as well as the motives which led to their inception, are unique. They are a series of stories based upon historical records, from the pen of Alexandre Dumas, pere, when he was not "the elder,"...
The Story of Abraham Lincoln - Mary Agnes Hamilton
The Story of Abraham Lincoln - Mary Agnes Hamilton
- Author: Mary Agnes Hamilton
- Genre: General / Biography & Autobiography
In this biography for young adults, Mary A. Hamilton gives a British personβs perspective on the 16th President of the United States. A glowing tribute to βHonest Abeβ, the author traces Lincolnβs ancestral roots and recounts his birth in Kentucky,...
Life of Charles Dickens - Sir Frank T. Marzials
Life of Charles Dickens - Sir Frank T. Marzials
- Author: Sir Frank T. Marzials
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Early biography of Charles Dickens published just 17 years after Dickens' death. Summary by Colleen McMahon...
George Bernard Shaw - G. K. Chesterton
George Bernard Shaw - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Essays & Short Works
Chesterton and Shaw were famous friends and enjoyed their arguments and discussions. Although rarely in agreement, they both maintained good-will towards and respect for each other. However, in his writing, Chesterton expressed himself very plainly...
Warren Hastings - Thomas Babington Macaulay
Warren Hastings - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
"Warren Hastings" is Chapter IV of Thomas Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays, vol. III. It first appeared in the Edinburgh Review of October 1841 as a review of Memoirs of the Life of Warren Hastings, first Governor-General of Bengal....
The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Brooks Adams
The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Brooks Adams
- Author: Henry Brooks Adams
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th century...
Great Englishwomen - M. B. Synge
Great Englishwomen - M. B. Synge
- Author: M. B. Synge
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Great Englishwomen is a collection of biographies of some of the greatest women in England's history. Women who were leaders of their country in troubled times, women who were reformers in prison conditions, and those who sought improvement in the...
Lady Jane Grey and Her Times - Ida Ashworth Taylor
Lady Jane Grey and Her Times - Ida Ashworth Taylor
- Author: Ida Ashworth Taylor
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Lady Jane Grey was an English noblewoman, great-granddaughter of Henry VII. As her cousin, Edward VI, lay on his death-bed, he nominated her as his successor to the English crown ahead of his half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth. Jane's reign lasted a...
Autobiography - John Stuart Mill
Autobiography - John Stuart Mill
- Author: John Stuart Mill
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 β 8 May 1873), British philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. He was an exponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed...
Jane Austen and Her Times - Geraldine Edith Mitton
Jane Austen and Her Times - Geraldine Edith Mitton
- Author: Geraldine Edith Mitton
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This is a lively and highly accessible overview of the life and times of one of England's most beloved authors. Using excerpts from a wide variety of sources, such as Austen's own personal correspondence and the works of her contemporaries, Mitton...
The Apostle of Alaska: The Story of William Duncan of Metlakahtla - John W. Arctander
The Apostle of Alaska: The Story of William Duncan of Metlakahtla - John W. Arctander
- Author: John W. Arctander
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
This is this story of William Duncan, an English missionary, who established a colony among the Tsimshian people of the Pacific Northwest. He worked there from 1856 until his death in 1918 at the age of 86. - Summary by Fritz...
My Inventions and Other Works - Nikola Tesla
My Inventions and Other Works - Nikola Tesla
- Author: Nikola Tesla
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
Between February and October 1919, Nikola Tesla submitted many articles to the magazine Electrical Experimenter. The most famous of these works is a six part series titled My Inventions, which is an autobiographical account of Nikola Tesla's life...
Wellington - George Hooper
Wellington - George Hooper
- Author: George Hooper
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1769-1852), was born in Dublin, the younger son of an Irish Protestant aristocrat. He served with his brother in India and rose to prominence during the Napoleonic Wars in the Peninsular Campaign. As a...
A Bunch of Everlastings - Frank W. Boreham
A Bunch of Everlastings - Frank W. Boreham
- Author: Frank W. Boreham
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Commentary
A collection of brief biographies and the text from scripture that was significant in the life of each. It is biography and devotional Bible study expertly woven together to produce interesting and inspirational stories. (Summary by Tim Bower)...
The Confessions of a Poacher - John Watson
The Confessions of a Poacher - John Watson
- Author: John Watson
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Nature
The poacher of these "Confessions" was no imaginary being. Following in his father's and forefather's footsteps, he learnt from an early age the practical skills of poaching and woodcraft. It was, however, Mother Nature that made old "Phil" a...
The Underground Railroad, Part 2 - William Still
The Underground Railroad, Part 2 - William Still
- Author: William Still
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
"This is one of the most remarkable volumes of the century. Its publication has only been made possible by a combination of circumstances which seldom attend the birth of a book. Before emancipation, and while the bane of slavery was on the country,...
Paul Jones - Alexandre Dumas
Paul Jones - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Plays / Biography & Autobiography
Dumas's play talks of American Naval Hero John Paul Jones's romantic entanglements and affairs of honor ashore in France. He later converted it to a novel. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: The Marquis D'Auray: Amy Gramour The Marchioness, his wife:...
The Pirates Own Book - Charles Ellms
The Pirates Own Book - Charles Ellms
- Author: Charles Ellms
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers....
Van Dyck - Percy M. Turner
Van Dyck - Percy M. Turner
- Author: Percy M. Turner
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
A biography and critique of Van Dyck in The Masterpieces in Colour series. The Plates of the paintings are fully described and the artistic periods in his life's work are given as well as his place in history. (Summary by Susan Morin)...
England and the Hundred Years' War - Charles William Chadwick Oman
England and the Hundred Years' War - Charles William Chadwick Oman
- Author: Charles William Chadwick Oman
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
This little book by the British military historian, Charles Oman, begins with the accession of the warrior king, Edward III, to the English throne in 1327 and ends with the downfall of Richard III at Bosworth Field in 1485. By carrying the story of...
A Journal of Impressions in Belgium - May Sinclair
A Journal of Impressions in Belgium - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
In 1914, at the age of 51, the novelist and poet May Sinclair volunteered to leave the comforts of England to go to the Western Front, joining the Munro Ambulance Corps ministering to wounded Belgian soldiers in Flanders. Her experiences in the...
My Mark Twain - William Dean Howells
My Mark Twain - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) became fast friends with Mark Twain from the moment in 1869 when Twain strode into the office of The Atlantic Monthly in Boston to thank Howell, then its assistant editor, for his favorable review of Innocents...
Ten Days in a Madhouse - Nellie Bly
Ten Days in a Madhouse - Nellie Bly
- Author: Nellie Bly
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young reporter who would soon go on to make a career for herself as an investigative journalist and βstuntβ reporter, had herself committed to the Blackwellβs Island Insane Asylum...
The Life of Apollonius of Tyana - Flavius Philostratus
The Life of Apollonius of Tyana - Flavius Philostratus
- Author: Flavius Philostratus
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Ancient / Other religions
Apollonius of Tyana (ca. 40-120 AD) was a Greek Pythagorean philosopher and teacher. He hailed from the town of Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Asia Minor. His date of birth is a matter of conjecture as some say he was roughly a...
Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2 - Moncure Daniel Conway
Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2 - Moncure Daniel Conway
- Author: Moncure Daniel Conway
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This second volume of his autobiography covers the years from the US Civil War to roughly 1904. (Summary by JoeD)...
