Memoirs - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 3
Recollections of the Civil War - Charles Anderson DANA
Recollections of the Civil War - Charles Anderson DANA
- Author: Charles Anderson DANA
- Genre: Memoirs
Recollections of the Civil War records the events that took place during the American Civil war. It forms one of the most remarkable volumes of historical, political, and personal reminiscences which have been given to the public. Mr. Dana wrote...
Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians - Fanny KELLY
Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians - Fanny KELLY
- Author: Fanny KELLY
- Genre: True Crime / Memoirs
"Narrative of my captivity among the Sioux Indians: with a brief account of General Sully's Indian expedition in 1864, bearing upon events occurring in my captivity" "I was a member of a small company of emigrants, who were attacked by an...
Thoughts on Art and Life - Leonardo DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life - Leonardo DA VINCI
- Author: Leonardo DA VINCI
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Philosophy / Memoirs
This is a compilation of the thoughts on art, science and life of Leonardo da Vinci, translated by Maurice Baring and edited by Lewis Einstein. - Summary by A. Gramour...
Notes of a War Correspondent - Richard Harding Davis
Notes of a War Correspondent - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: War & Military / History / Memoirs
Experiences and observations of the journalist in the Cuban-Spanish War, the Greek-Turkish War, the Spanish-American War, the South African War, and the Japanese-Russian War, accompanied by "A War Correspondent’s Kit." (Summary by Neeru Iyer)This...
The Escape of a Princess Pat - George PEARSON
The Escape of a Princess Pat - George PEARSON
- Author: George PEARSON
- Genre: Memoirs
Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia'sCanadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland. (Summary from Book subtitle) This is to celebrate...
The Life of Honorable William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill The Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide - Col. William F. Cody
The Life of Honorable William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill The Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide - Col. William F. Cody
- Author: Col. William F. Cody
- Genre: Memoirs
The life and adventures of Honorable William F. Cody--Buffalo Bill--as told by himself, make up a narrative which reads more like romance than reality, and which in many respects will prove a valuable contribution to the records of our Western...
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains - Isabella L. BIRD
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains - Isabella L. BIRD
- Author: Isabella L. BIRD
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
Isabella Bird began travelling while in her early twenties to help alleviate illness that had plagued her since childhood. She was a single woman in her early forties when she made her treck through the Rocky Mountains. A Lady's Life in the Rocky...
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon - Henry Fielding
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
Sailing voyage from England to Portugal in the mid Eighteenth Century, by one of the premier humorists, satirists, novelists and playwrights of his age. It was to be his last work, as his failing health proved unable to persevere much longer after...
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume V - François-René de Chateaubriand
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume V - François-René de Chateaubriand
- Author: François-René de Chateaubriand
- Genre: Memoirs
The memoirs of Chateaubriand continue in Volume 5, with the author, now a grand hommes des lettres, still in the thick of political events, telling his story with his trademark acerbity and melancholy, interspersed with extracts from his voluminous...
Brief Lives Volume II - John AUBREY
Brief Lives Volume II - John AUBREY
- Author: John AUBREY
- Genre: Memoirs
Volume 2 of Aubrey's sparkling gossipy biographical pieces on his contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glimpses into the unofficial side of these towering figures has won it an undying popularity, with Ruth Scurr's...
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume IV - François-René de Chateaubriand
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume IV - François-René de Chateaubriand
- Author: François-René de Chateaubriand
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Memoirs
After the extinction of Napoleon's comet on St Helena, Chateaubriand covers the Bourbon Restoration in this volume, meeting a dazzling array of literary and political figures, as his diplomatic career advances. - Summary by Nicole Lee...
From Slave Cabin To Pulpit and Sketches Of Slave Life - Peter RANDOLPH
From Slave Cabin To Pulpit and Sketches Of Slave Life - Peter RANDOLPH
- Author: Peter RANDOLPH
- Genre: Memoirs
Peter Randolph was born a slave in 1825 (?), was freed before the American Civil War, and became a clergyman in the Baptist tradition, dying in 1897. This is his 1893 autobiography. The latter third of the book is a slightly edited re-publication of...
A Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound - John R. JEWITT
A Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound - John R. JEWITT
- Author: John R. JEWITT
- Genre: Memoirs
John Jewitt (1783-1821), a blacksmith by trade, spent the years 1803-1806 as a slave among the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, off the Pacific Coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, after the trading vessel on which he served as armorer was...
Confessions, volumes 1 and 2 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confessions, volumes 1 and 2 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Genre: Psychology / Memoirs
“Thus I have acted; these were my thoughts; such was I.” Rousseau’s lengthy and sometimes anguished dossier on the Self is one of the most remarkable and courageous works of introspection ever undertaken. Some readers may be repelled by his tendency...
A Confederate Girl's Diary - Sarah Morgan DAWSON
A Confederate Girl's Diary - Sarah Morgan DAWSON
- Author: Sarah Morgan DAWSON
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
Sarah Morgan Dawson was a young woman of 20 living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when she began this diary. The American Civil War was raging. Though at first the conflict seemed far away, it would eventually be brought home to her in very personal...
The Backwoods of Canada - Catharine Parr TRAILL
The Backwoods of Canada - Catharine Parr TRAILL
- Author: Catharine Parr TRAILL
- Genre: Memoirs
The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of settlers to cultivate all the mental resources of a superior education, as she is to induce them to discard all irrational and artificial wants and mere useless...
Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends - John Keats
Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends - John Keats
- Author: John Keats
- Genre: Memoirs
These are the letters of John Keats, as written to family, close friends and others during his brief, eventful years as an artist. (However, the editor chose to exclude love letters to Fanny Brawne, respecting their private nature.) The celebrated...
With The Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt - Tickner Edwardes
With The Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt - Tickner Edwardes
- Author: Tickner Edwardes
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
Throughout the First World War, members of the Royal Army Medical Corps provided constant support for British and Allied military troops whether they were fighting on the frontline or engaged in other operations within all areas of the conflict....
Dallam's Travels with an Organ to the Grand Signieur, 1599-1600 - Thomas DALLAM
Dallam's Travels with an Organ to the Grand Signieur, 1599-1600 - Thomas DALLAM
- Author: Thomas DALLAM
- Genre: Memoirs
Queen Elizabeth the First of England, the Grand Turk at Constantinople, and an organ builder named Thomas Dallam—quite a trio. In 1599, Elizabeth commanded master organ builder Dallam to construct and deliver to the Grand Signieur , as a present...
An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army - Flora SANDES
An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army - Flora SANDES
- Author: Flora SANDES
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
Flora Sandes was the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War I. Initially a St. John Ambulance volunteer, she traveled to Serbia, where, in the confusion of war, she was formally enrolled in the Serbian army. While the...
The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1661 - Samuel PEPYS
The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1661 - Samuel PEPYS
- Author: Samuel PEPYS
- Genre: Memoirs
Samuel Pepys was the first Secretary to the Admiralty during the reign of Charles II, instrumental in developing the Royal Navy and witness to some of the most significant events of the Restoration period, including the Great Fire of London. His...
Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel - Margaret HERSCHEL
Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel - Margaret HERSCHEL
- Author: Margaret HERSCHEL
- Genre: Memoirs / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
For many people, the name Caroline Herschel will be unfamiliar, but she was one of the most significant women on the English scientific scene during the late 18th and early 19th century. Sister of the well known William Herschel (he of the discovery...
Travels and adventures of an orchid hunter: An account of canoe and camp life in Colombia, while collecting orchids in the northern Andes - Albert MILLICAN
Travels and adventures of an orchid hunter: An account of canoe and camp life in Colombia, while collecting orchids in the northern Andes - Albert MILLICAN
- Author: Albert MILLICAN
- Genre: Memoirs
This is quite the adventure tale and travelog. We see cities, peoples, plants and wildlife of Columbia and the ports our intrepid 'hunter' visits on the way there and back. It is an interesting period; a canal is being cut through Columbia to the...
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume II - François-René de Chateaubriand
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume II - François-René de Chateaubriand
- Author: François-René de Chateaubriand
- Genre: Memoirs
Volume II of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, translated by Teixeira de Mattos. This volume covers the period from his return to France to fight, reluctantly, for the King, his early literary successes with many portraits of the great...
South African Memories - Lady Sarah WILSON
South African Memories - Lady Sarah WILSON
- Author: Lady Sarah WILSON
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she was recruited to cover the Siege of Mafeking for the Daily Mail during the Boer War. She moved to Mafeking...
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself - Harriet JACOBS
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself - Harriet JACOBS
- Author: Harriet JACOBS
- Genre: Memoirs
Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children. The narrative was partly serialized in...
My Mother and I - Elizabeth Gertrude STERN
My Mother and I - Elizabeth Gertrude STERN
- Author: Elizabeth Gertrude STERN
- Genre: Memoirs
Elizabeth Stern was two and a half years old, when her family emigrated from Poland to Pittsburgh. My Mother and I is the story of Stern's Americanization and how it ultimately alienated her from her parents. Stern's father had been a small village...
Recollections of Bush Life in Australia - Henry William HAYGARTH
Recollections of Bush Life in Australia - Henry William HAYGARTH
- Author: Henry William HAYGARTH
- Genre: Memoirs
This was written in the mid 1800’s at time when Australia saw an influx of immigration from Europe and when England was sending some prisoners to Australia rather than to prisons. Haygarth shows us what it is like, and what it takes, to live in the...
The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself - Cole YOUNGER
The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself - Cole YOUNGER
- Author: Cole YOUNGER
- Genre: Memoirs
Autobiography of Cole Younger, American Civil War veteran and member of the Jesse James gang. Cole Younger was a member of Quantrill's Raiders during the Civil War and along with his brother, Jim Younger and the James brothers, robbed banks and...
The Spell of Egypt - Robert Smythe HICHENS
The Spell of Egypt - Robert Smythe HICHENS
- Author: Robert Smythe HICHENS
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
The author, a British journalist and novelist, is interested in the feel of the places he visits. He describes at length a visit he has made to Egypt, with emphasis on the emotional response the places generate. (summary by Sibella)...
My Experiences as an Executioner - James BERRY
My Experiences as an Executioner - James BERRY
- Author: James BERRY
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Memoirs
From 1884 until 1891, James Berry was an executioner. In this time he carried out 131 hangings. In this memoir he writes about the methods he used, and the final moments of some of those he executed. - Summary by ashleighjane...
Fifty Years in Chains; or The Life of an American Slave - Charles BALL
Fifty Years in Chains; or The Life of an American Slave - Charles BALL
- Author: Charles BALL
- Genre: Memoirs
This is the story of Charles Ball, an American slave who was born in 1780 and remained a slave for fifty years thereafter. Ball told his story to a lawyer who turned it into this written work. (Summary by Tom Causby)...
Memoirs of Chateaubriand 1768 to 1800 - François-René de Chateaubriand
Memoirs of Chateaubriand 1768 to 1800 - François-René de Chateaubriand
- Author: François-René de Chateaubriand
- Genre: Memoirs
This is the first volume of Chateaubriand's Memoires d'Outre Tombe, in a Victorian translation. It covers the period from his birth, including the extraordinarily evocative childhood years and his travels in America, the source of some of his later...
Pitching in a Pinch - Christy MATHEWSON
Pitching in a Pinch - Christy MATHEWSON
- Author: Christy MATHEWSON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Memoirs
In this book Mathewson is telling the reader of the game as it is played in the Big Leagues.... It’s as good as his pitching and some exciting things have happened in the Big Leagues, stories that never found their way into the newspapers. Matty has...
First Successful Ascent of Mt. Rainier, 1870 - Hazard STEVENS
First Successful Ascent of Mt. Rainier, 1870 - Hazard STEVENS
- Author: Hazard STEVENS
- Genre: Memoirs
Hazard Stevens and P.B. Van Trump, aided by the Indian guide Sluiskin, made the first documented successful ascent of Mt. Rainier on August 17, 1870. Hazard's account of the climb was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1876 and later...
Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave - Isaac MASON
Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave - Isaac MASON
- Author: Isaac MASON
- Genre: Memoirs
Isaac Mason was born into slavery. As a young man, he escaped to freedom and made a life for himself. An intelligent man, he gave lectures on his experiences and was later encouraged to publish them in book form. - Summary by Lynne Thompson...
My First Book - Various
My First Book - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Memoirs / Essays
This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which over twenty well-known authors write with characteristic style and humour of their experiences in writing...
The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1662 - Samuel PEPYS
The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1662 - Samuel PEPYS
- Author: Samuel PEPYS
- Genre: Memoirs
Samuel Pepys was the first Secretary to the Admiralty during the reign of Charles II, instrumental in developing the Royal Navy and witness to some of the most significant events of the Restoration period, including the Great Fire of London. His...
My Days and Dreams - Edward CARPENTER
My Days and Dreams - Edward CARPENTER
- Author: Edward CARPENTER
- Genre: Memoirs
Hard to imagine now, but there have been times and places where just wearing sandals could get you labeled as being in rebellion against established society. Two such places were Berkeley, California in the early 1960s and Millthorpe, England in the...
War and Women - Mabel Annie STOBART
War and Women - Mabel Annie STOBART
- Author: Mabel Annie STOBART
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
"The sending of a Women’s Convoy Corps to the Balkans was the result of Mrs. Stobart’s keen desire to demonstrate the ability of women to render signal service under war conditions and without the direction and assistance of men. This record of...