Memoirs - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
'Co. Aytch,' Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show - Sam R. Watkins
'Co. Aytch,' Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show - Sam R. Watkins
- Author: Sam R. Watkins
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Samuel “Sam” Rush Watkins (June 26, 1839 – July 20, 1901) was a noted Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. He is known today for his memoir Company Aytch: Or, a Side Show of the Big Show, often heralded as one of the best primary...
The English Governess at the Siamese Court - Anna Harriette Leonowens
The English Governess at the Siamese Court - Anna Harriette Leonowens
- Author: Anna Harriette Leonowens
- Genre: History / Memoirs
In 1862 Anna Leonowens accepted an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, king of Siam. The king wished to give his 39 wives and concubines and 82 children a modern Western education...
My Confession - Leo Tolstoy
My Confession - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Philosophy / Memoirs
"My Confession" is a brief autobiographical story of Leo Tolstoy's struggle with a mid-life existential crisis of melancholia. It describes his search for answers to the profound questions "What will come of my life?" and "What is the meaning of...
Unaddressed Letters - Anonymous
Unaddressed Letters - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Memoirs
“I had a friend who loved me;” but he has gone, and the “great gulf” is between us. After his death, I received a packet of manuscript with these few words:—“What I have written may appeal to you because of our friendship, and because, when you come...
Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
- Author: Richard Henry Dana Jr.
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
While there are many books upon the subject of sea life, there are few that can compare with Two Years Before the Mast. It is the story of a sailor's life from the forecastle, not a captain, nor a passenger, but a regular hand. The book was a great...
California Coast Trails - Joseph Smeaton Chase
California Coast Trails - Joseph Smeaton Chase
- Author: Joseph Smeaton Chase
- Genre: Nature / Memoirs
In 1911, decades before California's coast Highway 1 was built, an Englishman rode 2000 miles on horseback the length of California, from Mexico to Oregon. On the way he is courteously received at isolated ranches, has many quiet adventures, and is...
My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum - Herman Charles Merivale
My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum - Herman Charles Merivale
- Author: Herman Charles Merivale
- Genre: Memoirs
Fully titled My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum, by a Sane Patient, this memoir describes its author's, Herman Merivale's, experience in one of England's countryside asylums during the 1860's. The main subject - in this case, the author - is less...
Reminiscences of Captain Gronow - Rees Howell Gronow
Reminiscences of Captain Gronow - Rees Howell Gronow
- Author: Rees Howell Gronow
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
A collection of memoirs about the Peninsular War, the Battle of Waterloo, and society and personalities of Regency London and 19th century Paris, by a sometime Grenadier Guards officer, unsuccessful parliamentarian, and dandy. Gronow displays some...
Life of Chopin - Franz Liszt
Life of Chopin - Franz Liszt
- Author: Franz Liszt
- Genre: Memoirs
Chopin was a romantic era Polish composer. This work is a memoir by Liszt who knew Chopin both as man and artist. This memoir gives a unique understanding to the psychological character of the compositions of Chopin. It also offers Liszt's insight...
Three Times and Out - Nellie McClung
Three Times and Out - Nellie McClung
- Author: Nellie McClung
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
The true story of M. C. Simmons, a Canadian soldier captured by the German Army during the early days of World War I. We read of his sixteen months of imprisonment, his encounters with other captured troops of the other Allied armies and his...
In Italy with the 332nd Infantry - Joseph L. Lettau
In Italy with the 332nd Infantry - Joseph L. Lettau
- Author: Joseph L. Lettau
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
A brief, personal recounting of the 332nd Infantry in World War I, including training in America, a brief billet in France, activities in Italy, and the return to America. Summary by KevinS...
The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 - Leander Stillwell
The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 - Leander Stillwell
- Author: Leander Stillwell
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Leander Stillwell was an 18-year-old Illinois farm boy, living with his family in a log cabin, when the U.S. Civil War broke out. Stillwell felt a duty "to help save the Nation;" but, as with many other young men, his Patriotism was tinged with...
Reminiscences of a Southern Hospital, by Its Matron - Phoebe Yates Pember
Reminiscences of a Southern Hospital, by Its Matron - Phoebe Yates Pember
- Author: Phoebe Yates Pember
- Genre: Memoirs
Phoebe Yates Pember served as a matron in the Confederate Chimborazo military hospital in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, overseeing a dietary kitchen serving meals to 300 or more wounded soldiers daily. Reminiscences of a Southern...
The Life and Adventures of Venture - Venture Smith
The Life and Adventures of Venture - Venture Smith
- Author: Venture Smith
- Genre: Memoirs
Venture Smith (1729–1805) was an African captured as a child and transported to the American colonies to be sold as a slave. As an adult, he purchased his freedom and that of his family. His history was documented when he gave a narrative of his...
Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria - William Westgarth
Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria - William Westgarth
- Author: William Westgarth
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Son of John Westgarth, surveyor-general of customs for Scotland, was born at Edinburgh, in June 1815. He was educated at the high schools at Leith and Edinburgh, and at Dr Bruce's school at Newcastle-on-Tyne. He then entered the office of G. Young...
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant - Ulysses S. Grant
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant - Ulysses S. Grant
- Author: Ulysses S. Grant
- Genre: Memoirs
In preparing these volumes for the public, I have entered upon the task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not making mention often where...
Roughing It - Mark Twain
Roughing It - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
Roughing It is semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. It was authored during 1870–71 and published in 1872 as a sequel to his first book Innocents Abroad. This book tells of Twain's adventures prior to his...
Memoir of Washington Irving - Charles Adams
Memoir of Washington Irving - Charles Adams
- Author: Charles Adams
- Genre: Memoirs
Arguably one of America's greatest writers, Washington Irving is the author of such classics as "Legend of Sleepy Hollow," "Bracebridge Hall," and "Knickerbocker's History of New York." This book is a concise and extremely entertaining biography of...
A Versailles Christmas-Tide - Mary Stuart Boyd
A Versailles Christmas-Tide - Mary Stuart Boyd
- Author: Mary Stuart Boyd
- Genre: Memoirs
The Boy has fallen ill with scarlet fever while at school in France. His parents rush to his side. A touching memoir. - Summary by david wales...
Steep Trails - John Muir
Steep Trails - John Muir
- Author: John Muir
- Genre: Nature / Memoirs
A collection of Muir's previously unpublished essays, released shortly after his death. "This volume will meet, in every way, the high expectations of Muir's readers. The recital of his experiences during a stormy night on the summit of Mount Shasta...
Roughing It in the Bush - Susanna Moodie
Roughing It in the Bush - Susanna Moodie
- Author: Susanna Moodie
- Genre: Memoirs
'Roughing It In the Bush' is Susanna Moodie's account of how she coped with the harshness of life in the woods of Upper Canada, as an Englishwoman homesteading abroad. Her narrative was constructed partly as a response to the glowing falsehoods...
The Soul of a People - Harold Fielding Hall
The Soul of a People - Harold Fielding Hall
- Author: Harold Fielding Hall
- Genre: Memoirs
In The Soul of a People, Englishman H. Fielding explores the beliefs of the Burmese people. He offers an understandable, and yet thorough, explanation of Buddhism, and illustrates the many ways the people of Burma (Myanmar) live their faith. He also...
An Explorer in the Air Service - Hiram Bingham
An Explorer in the Air Service - Hiram Bingham
- Author: Hiram Bingham
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Memoirs / Modern (20th C)
Explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, as recounted in his book Inca Lands, now released on Librivox at http://librivox.org/inca-lands-by-hiram-bingham/. In 1917, he became an aviator and organized the United States Schools of...
The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott Vol 1 - Robert Falcon Scott
The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott Vol 1 - Robert Falcon Scott
- Author: Robert Falcon Scott
- Genre: History / Memoirs / Exploration
Capt. Robert F. Scott's bid to be the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole is one of the most famous journeys of all time. What started as a scientific expedition turned out to be an unwilling race against a team lead by R....
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography (version 2) - Booker T. Washington
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography (version 2) - Booker T. Washington
- Author: Booker T. Washington
- Genre: Memoirs
Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education...
South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 - Ernest Shackleton
South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 - Ernest Shackleton
- Author: Ernest Shackleton
- Genre: Memoirs / Exploration
Shackleton's most famous expedition was planned to be an attempt to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea south of the Atlantic, to the Ross Sea south of the Pacific, by way of the Pole. It set out from London on 1 August 1914, and reached the...
How I Filmed the War - Geoffrey H. Malins
How I Filmed the War - Geoffrey H. Malins
- Author: Geoffrey H. Malins
- Genre: Technology & Engineering / Memoirs / Modern (20th C)
An account of World War I and the experience of filming it by an early cinematographer (and, after the war, successful director) who was there. (Summary by R. S. Steinberg)...
Old Rail Fence Corners - Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris
Old Rail Fence Corners - Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris
- Author: Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Old Rail Fence Corners is an historical treasure trove containing the stories of the first significant waves of European-American settlers in the now state of Minnesota (United States of America). This book has direct accounts of mid-19th century...
Russia in 1919 - Arthur Ransome
Russia in 1919 - Arthur Ransome
- Author: Arthur Ransome
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern (20th C)
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: On August 27, 1914, in London, I made this note in a memorandum book: "Met Arthur Ransome at_____'s; discussed a book on the Russian's relation to the war in the light of psychological background--folklore." The book was not...
The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Volume I - Horatio Nelson
The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Volume I - Horatio Nelson
- Author: Horatio Nelson
- Genre: Memoirs
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...
A Woman Who Went to Alaska - May Kellogg Sullivan
A Woman Who Went to Alaska - May Kellogg Sullivan
- Author: May Kellogg Sullivan
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
Alaska has only been a state since 1959, and the breathtaking terrain remains mostly unspoiled and natural. In modern times, many of us have had the pleasure of visiting Alaska via a luxurious cruise ship, where we enjoyed gourmet meals, amazing...
My Hunt After 'The Captain' - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
My Hunt After 'The Captain' - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally published in The Atlantic Magazine, 1862. Holmes, Sr. (1809 -1894) was an American physician, poet, professor,...
The Humbugs of the World - P. T. Barnum
The Humbugs of the World - P. T. Barnum
- Author: P. T. Barnum
- Genre: Performing Arts / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Memoirs
P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witchcraft, religious humbugs, money manias, adventurers, personal reminiscences, and much more. (Summary by...
Boots and Saddles - Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Boots and Saddles - Elizabeth Bacon Custer
- Author: Elizabeth Bacon Custer
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
Elizabeth Custer has penned an engaging portrait of 1870’s life on a U.S. cavalry post in the Dakotas, just before her husband and his troops met their tragic deaths in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. “Our life,” she writes, “was often as...
Recollections of a Busy Life - William Forwood
Recollections of a Busy Life - William Forwood
- Author: William Forwood
- Genre: Memoirs
Liverpool in the second half of the 19th century was burgeoning with rich merchants and swollen with poor immigrants. It was known variously as the "New York of Europe" and the "Black Spot on the Mersey." Waist-deep in this mosaic we find William...
The Rough Riders - Theodore Roosevelt
The Rough Riders - Theodore Roosevelt
- Author: Theodore Roosevelt
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
Theodore Roosevelt's personal account of The Rough Riders, the name affectionately bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish-American War and the only one to see action....
The Innocents Abroad (version 2) - Mark Twain
The Innocents Abroad (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Memoirs
Samuel L. Clemens' (Mark Twain) journey to Europe and the Holy Land in 1866. Reportedly his best selling book....
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...
Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire - Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de La Tour du Pin
Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire - Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de La Tour du Pin
- Author: Henriette Lucie Dillon marquise de La Tour du Pin
- Genre: Memoirs / Early Modern / Modern (19th C)
An aristocratic Frenchwoman's personal record of the dazzling extravagance of the Ancien Régime, of the court of Marie Antoinette, of the Revolution, of her life in exile (partly in Upstate New York) and of the court of Napoleon Bonaparte. This...
Why Crime Does Not Pay - Sophie Lyons
Why Crime Does Not Pay - Sophie Lyons
- Author: Sophie Lyons
- Genre: Memoirs
The publishers believe that a picture of a life sketched by a master hand-somebody who stands in the world of crime as Edison does in his field or Morgan and Rockefeller do in theirs-could not fail to be impressive and valuable and prove the oft...
