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Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
- Author: Maria Edgeworth
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Satire
"One of the most inspired chronicles written in English" was the verdict of William Butler Yeats on the novel Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth which was first published in 1800. It is recognised as the first true historical novel in English as...
John Gutenberg, First Master Printer: His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses and his Death - Franz von Dingelstedt
John Gutenberg, First Master Printer: His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses and his Death - Franz von Dingelstedt
- Author: Franz von Dingelstedt
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
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 him in Mayence, where he lives in poverty. We get to know his enemies and his friends, and some information...
Studies in the Art of Rat-Catching - Henry C. Barkley
Studies in the Art of Rat-Catching - Henry C. Barkley
- Author: Henry C. Barkley
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Crafts & Hobbies
This book is often described as an instruction manual on the subject of rat-catching. It does indeed contain a good deal about rats, ferrets and dogs, but it is much more than that. Barkley fills the book with humour, sharp observation, and his...
Lost Diaries - Maurice Baring
Lost Diaries - Maurice Baring
- Author: Maurice Baring
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Literary Fiction
Within these pages find passages from the "lost diaries" of a wide range of people: royal, regular, famous, infamous, historical, and fictional. - Summary by A. Gramour...
The Bishop's Apron - W. Somerset Maugham
The Bishop's Apron - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
"Canon Spratte saw himself as he thought others might see him: mediocre, pompous, self-assertive, verbose." Maugham could have added ambitious, hypocritical, and vain. In this engrossing social satire, Theodore Spratte, a cleric, motivated by an...
The Man Who Found the Truth - Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
The Man Who Found the Truth - Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
- Author: Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
An old man, accused of having murdered his family as a young man, spends a lifetime in prison. With brilliant psychological insight so characteristic of Leonid Andreyev's work, we follow this man telling his story about his obsession with truth and...
The Rise of David Levinsky - Abraham Cahan
The Rise of David Levinsky - Abraham Cahan
- Author: Abraham Cahan
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Published 1900 onward
Coming to New York from the Russian Empire, Abraham Cahan founded the Jewish Daily Forward to help Yiddish-speaking immigrants adjust to life in New York. He also became a popular novelist, best known for his semi-autobiographical The Rise of David...
Demian, The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth - Hermann Hesse
Demian, The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth - Hermann Hesse
- Author: Hermann Hesse
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Somewhat autobiographical, this "coming of age" novel unfolds an introspective boy's formative years in pre-World War 1 Germany, from grade school through college. Hesse likens this confusing process to a giant bird struggling to break out of its...
Idomen, or The Vale of Yumuri - Maria Gowen Brooks
Idomen, or The Vale of Yumuri - Maria Gowen Brooks
- Author: Maria Gowen Brooks
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Idomen (1843) is the creative-nonfiction memoir of the beautiful and brilliant American poetess Maria Gowen Brooks, who was compared in the 19th century to Byron and Swinburne. In it she tells the story of an ill-fated love affair she had twenty...
In the Bishop's Carriage - Miriam Michelson
In the Bishop's Carriage - Miriam Michelson
- Author: Miriam Michelson
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Nancy 'Nance' Olden, a young and very pretty woman, is an accomplished liar and thief. Raised in a horrific orphanage, called the Cruelty by its occupants, Nance and her criminal boyfriend, Tom Dorgan, are pulling a con when the book begins. The...
Tommy and Grizel - J. M. Barrie
Tommy and Grizel - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Family Life / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction
This book continues Sentimental Tommy, also in the Librivox catalogue. Tommy grows up and marries Grizel. But life is not only roses and rainbows. This book has all the elements of a good love story, but it is also a book about growing up and...
Rezanov - Gertrude Atherton
Rezanov - Gertrude Atherton
- Author: Gertrude Atherton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
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, pushed for the Russian colonization of Alaska and California. "Not twenty pages have you turned before you...
Silas Strong - Irving Bacheller
Silas Strong - Irving Bacheller
- Author: Irving Bacheller
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Published 1900 onward
Per the author: "The book has one high ambition. It has tried to tell the sad story of the wilderness itselfβto show, from the woodsman's view-point, the play of great forces which have been tearing down his home and turning it into the flesh and...
Lore of Proserpine - Maurice Henry HEWLETT
Lore of Proserpine - Maurice Henry HEWLETT
- Author: Maurice Henry HEWLETT
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Literary Fiction
If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one may see substance in the idiom, so to speak, of the senses. That, I take it, is how the Greeks saw...
Shakspere: Personal Recollections - John A. JOYCE
Shakspere: Personal Recollections - John A. JOYCE
- Author: John A. JOYCE
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A fictitious account of a "friend" of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling Shakespeare's life, adventures, speeches, and impromptu bursts of poetry. (Summary by Tricia G.)...
The Purple Land - William Henry HUDSON
The Purple Land - William Henry HUDSON
- Author: William Henry HUDSON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Travel Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
In W.H. Hudsonβs first novel, an Englishman wandering on horseback across the pampas finds adventure and romance in Uruguay. The full title became: βThe Purple Land: Being the Narrative of One Richard Lamb's Adventures in The Banda Oriental, in...
Chicot the Jester - Alexandre Dumas
Chicot the Jester - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Romance
This sequel to Dumas' βMarguerite de Valoisβ begins four years after the sudden death of King Charles IX and succession of his brother Henry III. The reign of King Henry III was plagued with rebellion and political intrigue due to the War of the...
Doctor Johnson: A Play - A. Edward NEWTON
Doctor Johnson: A Play - A. Edward NEWTON
- Author: A. Edward NEWTON
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Plays
The life of Doctor Johnson, told in his own words and (mostly) those of others around him. "Anyone with a teaspoonful of imagination can read this play with pleasure; with two teaspoonsful, I will not be responsible for results. He, or she, may be...
The Forty-Five Guardsmen - Alexandre Dumas
The Forty-Five Guardsmen - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
The sequel to "Chicot the Jester" and final book of the "Valois Romances." This story begins six years after the famed "Duel of the Mignons" between the favorites of the courts of King Henry III and Henry the Duke of Guise (somewhat allied with the...
Curiosities of Street Literature - Various
Curiosities of Street Literature - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Satire / Biography & Autobiography
This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The collection contains sensationalist and sometimes comical stories about criminal conduct, love, the Royal...
Mary Cary, Frequently Martha - Kate Langley BOSHER
Mary Cary, Frequently Martha - Kate Langley BOSHER
- Author: Kate Langley BOSHER
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General
"My name is Mary Cary. I live in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum. It does. The orphans are sure enough children, and real much like the kind that have Mothers and Fathers; and thatβs why I am...
Heimskringla: The Stories of the Kings of Norway, Called The Round World - Snorri STURLESON
Heimskringla: The Stories of the Kings of Norway, Called The Round World - Snorri STURLESON
- Author: Snorri STURLESON
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Heimskringla (Icelandic pronunciation: [ΛheimsΛkΚ°riΕla]) is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Iceland by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson (1178/79β1241) ca. 1230. The name Heimskringla was first used...
Violet Osborne - Trilogy - Emily PONSONBY
Violet Osborne - Trilogy - Emily PONSONBY
- Author: Emily PONSONBY
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Romance
"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, and of course she must be happy. Yet, as we learn, she is a manipulative and overbearing woman who would do...
Marguerite de Valois - Alexandre Dumas
Marguerite de Valois - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
A historical fiction novel set in Paris (1572) during Charles IX's reign and the French Wars of Religion. Marguerite de Valois, daughter of deceased Henry II, is the novel's protagonist set against the infamous schemes of the Catholic power player,...
Agnes Sorel - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
Agnes Sorel - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Author: George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
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 the House of Valois, rulers of the Kingdom of France, over the succession to the French throne. It was a...
Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance - Mark Twain
Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Humorous Fiction
Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance, a short volume, published by Sheldon & Co., NY in 1871, is Mark Twain's third book. It consists of two stories - First Romance, which had originally appeared in The Express in 1870, and A...
The Friendly Road, New Adventures in Contentment - Ray Stannard Baker
The Friendly Road, New Adventures in Contentment - Ray Stannard Baker
- Author: Ray Stannard Baker
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
My grandmother Gertrude received a copy of The Friendly Road for Christmas in 1919. It must have been a special gift book--green leather binding, gold embossing, a sheet of tissue paper protecting the color plate facing the title page--this a...
Rilla of Ingleside (version 3 Dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rilla of Ingleside (version 3 Dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Anne of Green Gables is all grown up and married, and this is the story of her daughter βRillaβ, named for the indomitable Marilla Cuthbert of Anneβs childhood. The young Rilla will need all her strength for the dark days ahead, as her coming of age...
Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph - Frances SHERIDAN
Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph - Frances SHERIDAN
- Author: Frances SHERIDAN
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Romance
Sidney and Cecilia are best childhood friends who are forced to part for 5 years. In that interval, Sidney Bidulph - an undoubtedly good and dutiful woman - writes to her friend about everything: her marriage, her children, her other friendships...
The Moon and Sixpence (version 2) - W. Somerset Maugham
The Moon and Sixpence (version 2) - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 short novel by William Somerset Maugham based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told in episodic form by the first-person narrator as a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central...
Sentimental Tommy - J. M. Barrie
Sentimental Tommy - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Family Life / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
"J. M. Barrie is most noted for being the author of Peter Pan, the beloved book about a child who does not want to grow up. The two Tommy novels, as they are collectively referred to, are also about a child who does not want to grow up. Yet, unlike...
A Rogue's Life - Wilkie Collins
A Rogue's Life - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
"[T]he story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles Dickens for a near neighbor and a daily companion, and when my leisure hours were joyously passed with many other friends,...
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography - Walt Whitman
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction
This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the world as novel written by Walt Whitman. Zachary Turpin, a graduate student specializing in Whitman's works, had...
Days With Sir Roger de Coverley - Joseph ADDISON
Days With Sir Roger de Coverley - Joseph ADDISON
- Author: Joseph ADDISON
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
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's house. (Elijah Fisher)...
Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (version 2) - Andrew Lang
Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (version 2) - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history of the country opens, and a few words are necessary to explain why the characters in the stories act and speak...
The Autobiography of Methuselah - John Kendrick Bangs
The Autobiography of Methuselah - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Religious Fiction / Satire
A satirical look at early biblical events from the point of view of someone who was there to witness most of them: the oldest man in recorded history. (Introduction by Matthew Reece)...
Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition - Horatio Alger, Jr.
Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction
Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition deals with the grit and determination of Grant, a 15 year old farmer's boy whose father is dead and in order to pay his minister father's debts, and to help his mother deal with their abject poverty...
The Late Mattia Pascal - Luigi Pirandello
The Late Mattia Pascal - Luigi Pirandello
- Author: Luigi Pirandello
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Mattia Pascal grew up in a small Italian town not dissimilar to that of the author's upbringing. Pascal leads a somewhat feckless boyhood, allowing opportunities to slip away from him and living on the accumulated but dwindling resources of his...
Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving - Washington Irving
Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction
Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with an old friend he is able to experience Christmas in a stately manor house. Through his eyes as a houseguest...
The Pride of Jennico - Egerton CASTLE
The Pride of Jennico - Egerton CASTLE
- Author: Egerton CASTLE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
"The death of a patriarch, unexpected inheritance of a second son, dark and stormy castle, faithful retainers, scary governess who never speaks, star-crossed lovers -- I could go on, but that would involve spoilers! All you'd want and expect from a...
