Letters - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba - Mary Georgiana Caroline Hall
A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba - Mary Georgiana Caroline Hall
- Author: Mary Georgiana Caroline Hall
- Genre: Memoirs / Letters
In 1881, Mrs. Cecil Hall's brother went to Manitoba to farm. In 1882, she went out for a visit of some two months, and followed that visit with a long sojourn in Colorado, returning to England as the snows began to fall. While there, she had to give...
Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister - Ulysses S. Grant
Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister - Ulysses S. Grant
- Author: Ulysses S. Grant
- Genre: Letters
Among the national leaders whose names will always hold an honorable place in American history is Ulysses S. Grant, the simple-hearted man and capable soldier, to whose patriotism, courage, persistence, and skill was so largely due the successful...
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 - Frances M. A. Roe
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 - Frances M. A. Roe
- Author: Frances M. A. Roe
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Letters
"There appeared from the bushes in front of me, and right in the path, two immense gray wolves . . . Rollo saw them and stopped instantly, giving deep sighs, preparing to snort, I knew . . . To give myself courage, I talked to the horse, slowly...
Robert Browning 200th Anniversary Collection - Robert Browning
Robert Browning 200th Anniversary Collection - Robert Browning
- Author: Robert Browning
- Genre: Poetry / Single author / Letters
For this collection, LibriVox volunteers made their own selections from Robert Browning's poetry and prose to celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth on 7th May 1812....
Mark Twain's Travel Letters from 1891-92 - Mark Twain
Mark Twain's Travel Letters from 1891-92 - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humor / Travel & Geography / Letters
This collection of Mark Twain travel letters was compiled by Barbara Schmidt for her website, TwainQuotes.com. According to his biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, when Twain took his family to Europe in June of 1891, he left with the knowledge that...
War Letters From A Young Queenslander - Robert Marshall ALLEN
War Letters From A Young Queenslander - Robert Marshall ALLEN
- Author: Robert Marshall ALLEN
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (20th C) / Letters
Letters from a Brisbane doctor posted to the Western Front from 1914 to December 1915. He tells anecdotes of World War I including stories of "de-lousing" an entire regiment, the precise arrangements of the urine trenches and his eyewitness accounts...
Glimpses of Bengal - Rabindranath Tagore
Glimpses of Bengal - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs / Letters
The book is a selection of letters written by Tagore, in various places in Bengal, India....
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark - Mary Wollstonecraft
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark - Mary Wollstonecraft
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
- Genre: Letters
Published in 1796, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark is a personal travel narrative by the eighteenth-century British feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft. The twenty-five letters cover a wide range of topics,...
The Silence Dogood Letters - Benjamin FRANKLIN
The Silence Dogood Letters - Benjamin FRANKLIN
- Author: Benjamin FRANKLIN
- Genre: Early Modern / Essays / Letters
As a teenager, Benjamin Franklin apprenticed with his brother James at the shop where The New-England Courant was printed. Since James would not publish any of Benjamin's works, fifteen-year-old Benjamin sent letters to The New England Courant under...
Letters on an Elk Hunt - Elinore Pruitt STEWART
Letters on an Elk Hunt - Elinore Pruitt STEWART
- Author: Elinore Pruitt STEWART
- Genre: Letters
This is a sequel to Letters of a Woman Homesteader in which Elinore Rupert (Pruitt) Stewart describes her arrival and early years on a Burntfork Wyoming ranch in 1909-1913. The letters are written to her elderly friend, Mrs. Coney, in Denver. In the...
Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne - Dorothy OSBORNE
Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne - Dorothy OSBORNE
- Author: Dorothy OSBORNE
- Genre: Letters
A lively, interesting and important collection of 17th century love-letters written by an English lady, against the background of the Civil War and the Restoration [summary by hefyd] After refusing a long string of suitors put forth by her family,...
Emily Dickinson on Death - Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson on Death - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Poetry / Single author / Letters
Emily Dickinson is one of the most intriguing of American poets. Since she grew increasingly reclusive, very few of her poems were published until after her death. This collection includes two letters Dickinson wrote to her friends on the occasion...
Letters to His Children - Theodore Roosevelt
Letters to His Children - Theodore Roosevelt
- Author: Theodore Roosevelt
- Genre: General / Letters
The strong, vigorous, exalted character of a doting father who loved playing with his children and their pets, even while serving as the President of the United States, stands revealed in this selection of letters he wrote his children throughout...
Selected Letters of Ludwig van Beethoven - Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
Selected Letters of Ludwig van Beethoven - Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
- Author: Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
- Genre: Letters
A selection of Beethoven's letters from the compilation by Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800-1877) and Ludwig Nohl (1831-1885), and translated by Lady Grace Wallace. (Summary by Scott D. Farquhar)09 - To Herr Kauka is read by: Victor Guerreiro, Scott...
The Letters of Jane Austen - Jane Austen
The Letters of Jane Austen - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Letters
This recording includes a selection of Jane Austen's letters, edited by Susan Coolidge and chosen from the collection of Austen's great-nephew, Edward, Lord Brabourne. The letters are mostly addressed to Austen's sister Cassandra, with whom she was...
Letters from Victorian Pioneers - Various
Letters from Victorian Pioneers - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Letters
A series of letters on the early occupation of the colony, the Aborigines, etc addressed by Victorian pioneers to his Excellency Charles Joseph La Trobe Esq. , Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Victoria in response to a circular letter sent by...
The Letters of a Post-Impressionist - Vincent VAN GOGH
The Letters of a Post-Impressionist - Vincent VAN GOGH
- Author: Vincent VAN GOGH
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / Letters
“Being the Familiar Correspondence of Vincent Van Gogh ... [Van Gogh's] art was appreciated during his life only by a very few and it is but within recent years that it has found admirers who in many cases have been most ardently enthusiastic. Of...
The Letters of Mark Twain, Complete - Mark Twain
The Letters of Mark Twain, Complete - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Letters
These letters were arranged in two volumes by Albert Bigelow Paine, Samuel L. Clemens's literary executor, as a supplement to Mark Twain, A Biography, which Paine wrote. They are, for the most part, every letter written by Clemens known to exist at...
Hospital Sketches - Louisa May Alcott
Hospital Sketches - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: War & Military / Letters
Alcott in 1862 served as a nurse in Georgetown, D.C during the Civil War. She wrote home what she observed there. Those harrowing and sometimes humorous letters compiled make up Hospital Sketches. (Summary by Aaron Elliott)...
The Wound Dresser - Walt Whitman
The Wound Dresser - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Letters
The Wound Dresser is a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington by Walt Whitman during the War of the Rebellion to The New York Times, the Brooklyn Eagle and his mother, edited by Richard Maurice Burke, M.D., one of Whitman's...
Deer Godchild - Marguerite Bernard
Deer Godchild - Marguerite Bernard
- Author: Marguerite Bernard
- Genre: General / Letters
A young New-Yorker of twelve heard an appeal for the Fatherless Children of France and his heart was touched. He had no money, but he resolved to give his spare time and his utmost energy to support a "kid in France." The French child needed ten...
Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Written When She Was Eighty - Hester Lynch PIOZZI
Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Written When She Was Eighty - Hester Lynch PIOZZI
- Author: Hester Lynch PIOZZI
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Letters
Born into the influential Welsh Salusbury family and married to the rich brewer Henry Thrale, Hester Piozzi was associated to the most illustrious figures of London society in her time, among others the famous Samuel Johnson, to whose biography her...
Five Years of My Life 1894-1899 - Alfred Dreyfus
Five Years of My Life 1894-1899 - Alfred Dreyfus
- Author: Alfred Dreyfus
- Genre: Memoirs / Letters
Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French Army was court martialed in 1894 on a trumped up charge of treason and condemned to life imprisonment on Devil’s island, a penal colony off French Guiana. His prison diary, published as Five Years of My...
The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Volume II - Horatio Nelson
The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Volume II - Horatio Nelson
- Author: Horatio Nelson
- Genre: Letters
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was an English flag officer famous for his service in the Royal Navy, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars. He won several victories, including the...
Love Letter Collection 2008 - Various
Love Letter Collection 2008 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Romance / Letters
LibriVox readers have cast their nets wide to create this small collection of letters and poems, from fiction and from life, from heart to heart and from soul to soul. With love for St Valentine. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)...
The Story of My Life, Part 2 (Letters 1887 - 1901) - Helen KELLER
The Story of My Life, Part 2 (Letters 1887 - 1901) - Helen KELLER
- Author: Helen KELLER
- Genre: Letters
When Helen Keller's autobiography was first published in 1903, Part 1 of this 3 part book, she was just a young woman studying at Radcliffe College. In it, she shares memories of her childhood, describes how Miss Sullivan rescued her from complete...
Letters of John Huss - Jan Hus
Letters of John Huss - Jan Hus
- Author: Jan Hus
- Genre: Early Modern / Letters
Personal correspondence of Bohemian religious reformer John Huss (Jan Hus) from 1411 when he was exiled from Prague through his death by burning as heretic in 1415 by order of the Council of Constance. These were first published in 1536 by the...
Letters to a Friend, Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, 1866-1879 - John Muir
Letters to a Friend, Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, 1866-1879 - John Muir
- Author: John Muir
- Genre: Nature / Travel & Geography / Letters
When John Muir was a student in the University of Wisconsin he was a frequent caller at the house of Dr. Ezra S. Carr. The kindness shown him there, and especially the sympathy which Mrs. Carr, as a botanist and a lover of nature, felt in the young...
Letters from a Prairie Garden - Edna W. Underwood
Letters from a Prairie Garden - Edna W. Underwood
- Author: Edna W. Underwood
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Gardening / Letters
The "Letters from a Prairie Garden," are genuine letters and not fiction. They went through the mail. An explanatory word about their origin may not be amiss. Some years ago a famous artist came to a certain mid-western city on business connected...
Above the French Lines - Stuart Walcott
Above the French Lines - Stuart Walcott
- Author: Stuart Walcott
- Genre: War & Military / Letters
A collection of letters written by Stuart Walcott while training to be an aviator in France to prepare for combat. Walcott died in his first aerial combat after first downing a German bi-plane. - Summary by KevinS...
Letters on England - Voltaire
Letters on England - Voltaire
- Author: Voltaire
- Genre: Letters
Voltaire spent his early thirties in England as an exile following the Bastille imprisonment for his satires. With passionate admiration, he then wrote this series of letters in English putting forward his views on the 18th century England, in...
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft - Sir Walter Scott
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Letters
A series of letters written by Scott on the history of witchcraft and other supernatural events in England and other locations. He documents stories and discredits them with natural causes. (Summary by Deon Gines)...
An Authentic Narrative of Some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars in the Life of John Newton - John Newton
An Authentic Narrative of Some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars in the Life of John Newton - John Newton
- Author: John Newton
- Genre: Letters / Christianity - Biographies
John Newton, best known for his hymn "Amazing Grace", for his former life as a slave trader and as eventual opponent of the slave trade in Britain. These 14 short letters cover his early life to about 1755 and are filled with his Christian...