Biography & Autobiography - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 9
Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - William GODWIN
Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - William GODWIN
- Author: William GODWIN
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
William Godwin writes a tell-all about his ex-wife one year after her death. Mary Wollstonecraft (mother of Mary Shelley) was an early proponent of women's rights and lived a lifestyle that was frowned upon during her life. - Summary by Katie Cocco...
Women of History - Anonymous
Women of History - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
An intriguing look at well known women in history from BC 500 to the mid 1800's. Each chapter is a brief overview of one woman's life. An interesting read. (Summary by Michele Eaton)...
The Roman Empire of the Second Century: Or, The Age of the Antonines - William Wolfe CAPES
The Roman Empire of the Second Century: Or, The Age of the Antonines - William Wolfe CAPES
- Author: William Wolfe CAPES
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
This short overview of the Roman Empire from AD 96-180 opens as the murderers of Domitian raise to power the wise old senator, Nerva. Ignoring assassination rumors, his successor, the brave soldier Trajan, "went about the streets almost unguarded"...
Twelve Years in the Saddle - W. John L. SULLIVAN
Twelve Years in the Saddle - W. John L. SULLIVAN
- Author: W. John L. SULLIVAN
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Sergeant Sullivan tells the story of his life as a Texas Ranger for 12 incredible years in the late 1800s. (Summary by Will Nuessle)...
The Life and Adventures of Nat Love - Nat LOVE
The Life and Adventures of Nat Love - Nat LOVE
- Author: Nat LOVE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Nat Love was born a slave, emancipated into abject poverty, grew up riding the range as a cowboy and spent his maturity riding the rails as a Pullman Porter. For me, the most amazing thing about him is that despite the circumstances of his life,...
St. Francis of Assisi - G. K. Chesterton
St. Francis of Assisi - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
For Chesterton, Francis of Assisi is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved the pleasures of the natural world as few have loved them, but vowed himself to the most austere poverty,...
From Alien To Citizen - Edward A. STEINER
From Alien To Citizen - Edward A. STEINER
- Author: Edward A. STEINER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Edward Steiner spent his life figuring out how America manages to take in aliens from all over the world, who bring with them a huge diversity of beliefs, habits, ethics, prejudices, expectations, etc., throws them into the "melting pot", and within...
Women of Achievement - Benjamin Griffith BRAWLEY
Women of Achievement - Benjamin Griffith BRAWLEY
- Author: Benjamin Griffith BRAWLEY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This volume, published in 1919 by the American Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, opens with an introduction spelling out the important work done by African American women. It speaks both to the "invisible work" of as mothers and wives, and the...
Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup - John Kendrick Bangs
Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous spin on encounters with several famous people of the time. "I set forth from my office in London upon my pilgrimage to the shrines of the world's illustrious. Readers...
Abigail Adams and Her Times - Laura E. Howe Richards
Abigail Adams and Her Times - Laura E. Howe Richards
- Author: Laura E. Howe Richards
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
This is a young person's biography of Abigail Adams that will appeal to readers of all ages. In the author's own words, "I am not writing a history; far from it. I am merely throwing on the screen, in the fashion of today, a few scenes to make a...
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 4) - John Hay
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 4) - John Hay
- Author: John Hay
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 4 chronicles Lincoln's life from April...
Beethoven, A Character Study - George Alexander FISCHER
Beethoven, A Character Study - George Alexander FISCHER
- Author: George Alexander FISCHER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
A book of the life of the German Composer, Beethoven. - Summary by Jessie Yun...
A Handful of Stars - Frank W. Boreham
A Handful of Stars - Frank W. Boreham
- Author: Frank W. Boreham
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This is the second of a five volume series called "Texts That Made History". As with the first volume, "A Bunch of Everlastings", each chapter tell a brief biography with emphasis on the text from scripture that was significant in the life of each....
Frederic the Great - Thomas Babington Macaulay
Frederic the Great - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Early Modern
Macaulay's review essay on Frederick the Great of Prussia is found in vol. iii of his Critical and Historical Essays, and concentrates primarily on the ways in which he built Prussia up into a major military power. Though it's impossible to read the...
George Frideric Handel - Herbert Francis Peyser
George Frideric Handel - Herbert Francis Peyser
- Author: Herbert Francis Peyser
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Music
Handelβs long career resembles a gigantic tapestry, so bewilderingly crowded with detail, so filled with turmoil and vicissitude, with vast achievements, extremes of good and ill fortune, and unending comings and goings that any attempt to force...
From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indian - Charles Alexander Eastman
From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indian - Charles Alexander Eastman
- Author: Charles Alexander Eastman
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
From the Deep Woods to Civilization is the sequel to Indian Boyhood. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) gives his account of what it was like to transition from the ways of his Inidan life to that of the white man. His father, long thought dead, had...
Four Great Americans - James Baldwin
Four Great Americans - James Baldwin
- Author: James Baldwin
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Written for children, James Baldwin's history of Washington, Franklin, Webster, and Lincoln brings these men to life in a way that will be interesting for adults as well. The stories touch on the little humanities of the great men, rather than...
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 3 - Agnes Strickland
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 3 - Agnes Strickland
- Author: Agnes Strickland
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by her sister Elizabeth. These volumes give biographies of the queens of England from the Norman Conquest in 1066....
Queen Victoria - Giles Lytton STRACHEY
Queen Victoria - Giles Lytton STRACHEY
- Author: Giles Lytton STRACHEY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
Lytton Stracheyβs first great success, and his most famous achievement, was "Eminent Victorians" (1918), a collection of four short biographies of Victorian heroes. With a dry wit, he exposed the human failings of his subjects and what he saw as the...
Daniel Boone (Thwaites) - Reuben Gold THWAITES
Daniel Boone (Thwaites) - Reuben Gold THWAITES
- Author: Reuben Gold THWAITES
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Daniel Boone was a great hunter, explorer, surveyor, and excellent rifleman; he knew Indians and fought them skillfully. His life was filled with adventures and, with this biography, Reuben Gold Thwaites takes us along on some of those adventures....
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 7) - John Hay
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 7) - John Hay
- Author: John Hay
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 7 chronicles Lincoln's life from 1862,...
Loss of the Sultana - Chester D. BERRY
Loss of the Sultana - Chester D. BERRY
- Author: Chester D. BERRY
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
April, 1865. The country was in turmoil. The U.S. Civil War had come to an end, thousands of Union prisoners of war had recently been released, and President Lincoln had just been assassinated. The steamship 'Sultana' left New Orleans on April 21st,...
Knight of Molokai - Eva K. BETZ
Knight of Molokai - Eva K. BETZ
- Author: Eva K. BETZ
- Genre: Religion / Biography & Autobiography
Hurricane! Volcano eruptions and fire! Leprosy! Nothing deterred Father Damien from doing the work to which he had been called. Outstandingly big and strong as a boy, he was notably kind as a young man. He needed all his strength and kindness when...
Captain Cook - Walter Besant
Captain Cook - Walter Besant
- Author: Walter Besant
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Nature
James Cook (1728-1779), British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy was the son of a farm laborer. Apprenticed to a grocer, he ran away to sea. He saw hard service in the Baltic as a merchant seaman, while applying...
Uganda's White Man of Work: A Story of Alexander M. Mackay - Sophia Lyon FAHS
Uganda's White Man of Work: A Story of Alexander M. Mackay - Sophia Lyon FAHS
- Author: Sophia Lyon FAHS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
When Henry Stanley (the famous journalist who went to find David Livingstone) was in Africa , he met a king named Mutesa. This king had started believing his tribe's Ugandan traditions about spirits and devils. Then some Arabs came through and...
The Life of Saint Monica - Frances Alice Forbes
The Life of Saint Monica - Frances Alice Forbes
- Author: Frances Alice Forbes
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
This book is above all things the story of a mother. But it is also the story of a noble womanβa woman who was truly great, for the reason that she never sought to be so. Because she understood the sphere in which a woman's work in the world must...
Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War - Various
Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
Seven narratives published in the late nineteenth century and assembled in this 1913 collection. - Summary by david wales...
Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors - George ILES
Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors - George ILES
- Author: George ILES
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The playwright gives a play its plot, characters, dialog and form, but its sense of living reality is conveyed by the art of the actor. This fascinating collection of perspectives on acting is taken from biographies and autobiographies of American,...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 29 - The Day of Sir John Macdonald: A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion - Sir Joseph POPE
Chronicles of Canada Volume 29 - The Day of Sir John Macdonald: A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion - Sir Joseph POPE
- Author: Sir Joseph POPE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
A biography of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada. It was written by the man who served as Macdonald's private secretary from 1882 to 1891. - Summary by TriciaG...
The Autobiography of a Clown - Isaac MARCOSSON
The Autobiography of a Clown - Isaac MARCOSSON
- Author: Isaac MARCOSSON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This "as told to" autobiography of Jules Turnour is based on a popular article that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1909. Turnour relates through Marcosson his personal history and that of the circus, both in Europe and the United States....
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems - John MCCRAE
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems - John MCCRAE
- Author: John MCCRAE
- Genre: Single author / Biography & Autobiography
John McCrae, physician, soldier, and poet, died in France a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Canadian forces.The poem which gives this collection of his lovely verse its name has been extensively reprinted, and received with unusual enthusiasm.The volume...
Autobiography of Phineas Pett - Phineas PETT
Autobiography of Phineas Pett - Phineas PETT
- Author: Phineas PETT
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Phineas Pett was a Master Shipbuilder from one of England's greatest shipbuilding families of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and kept a journal of his experiences and thoughts at this important and turbulent time in the industry. Although...
The Soul of an Immigrant - Constantine PANUNZIO
The Soul of an Immigrant - Constantine PANUNZIO
- Author: Constantine PANUNZIO
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Constantine Panunzio (1884-1964) begins his autobiography by describing his childhood in Molfetta, Italy. At age 13, he left home as a sailor, landing in Boston in 1902. His trials finding work, learning English, and securing an education in the...
The Story of a Soul (Version 2) - Saint THERESE OF LISIEUX
The Story of a Soul (Version 2) - Saint THERESE OF LISIEUX
- Author: Saint THERESE OF LISIEUX
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
She is also known as St.Thérèse of Child Jesus. She was born at Alençon, France, 2 January 1873; died at Lisieux 30 September 1897. When she was fifteen she applied for permission to enter the Carmelite Convent, and being refused by the superior,...
Edward the First - Thomas Frederick TOUT
Edward the First - Thomas Frederick TOUT
- Author: Thomas Frederick TOUT
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
Edward I of England (1239-1307) will always be remembered as the "Hammer of the Scots" who condemned William Wallace (Braveheart) to a traitor's death in 1297. But Edward was one of England's greatest statesman-kings. In this short biography the...
The Life of Charlemagne - NOTKER THE STAMMERER
The Life of Charlemagne - NOTKER THE STAMMERER
- Author: NOTKER THE STAMMERER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Notker's work consists of anecdotes relating chiefly to the Emperor Charlemagne and his family. It was written for Charles the Fat, great-grandson of Charlemagne, who visited Saint Gall in 883. Traditionally, it has been scorned by traditional...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick DOUGLASS
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick DOUGLASS
- Author: Frederick DOUGLASS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the...
The Life of St. Teresa - Saint Teresa of Avila
The Life of St. Teresa - Saint Teresa of Avila
- Author: Saint Teresa of Avila
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
Saint Teresa of Γvila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa SΓ‘nchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, (March 28, 1515, at Gotarrendura (Γvila), Old Castile, Spain β October 4, 1582, at Alba de Tormes, Salamanca, Spain) was a prominent Spanish...
Auguste Rodin - Rainer Maria Rilke
Auguste Rodin - Rainer Maria Rilke
- Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
Rodin has pronounced Rilke's essay the supreme interpretation of his work. (From the translatorsβ Preface)Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917, was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out...
Shermanβs Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs - William Tecumseh SHERMAN
Shermanβs Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs - William Tecumseh SHERMAN
- Author: William Tecumseh SHERMAN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
This librivox recording comprises three chapters from American Civil War General William Tecumseh Shermanβs Memoirs. The chapters deal with a posting to California in his pre-Civil War military career in the years 1846-1848. While many of his...