Memoirs - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 6
With the Anzacs in Cairo - Guy Thornton
With the Anzacs in Cairo - Guy Thornton
- Author: Guy Thornton
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
Guy Thornton recounts his experiences serving as a military chaplain with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) while stationed in Egypt during World War I. His writing is opinionated, emotionally vulnerable, and written in very...
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Memories and Adventures - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Memories and Adventures - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Memoirs
Arthur Conan Doyle first published his memories of his many various adventures around the world and his relationships with such famous figures of the age including Oscar Wilde, Empress Eugenie and Prime Minister Arthur Balfour to name a few, in The...
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist - Alexander Berkman
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist - Alexander Berkman
- Author: Alexander Berkman
- Genre: Memoirs
In 1892, anarchist and Russian émigré Alexander Berkman was apprehended for the failed assassination of industrialist Henry Clay Frick. This was a retaliatory act meant to incite revolution against those who had violently suppressed the Homestead...
A Personal Record - Joseph Conrad
A Personal Record - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Memoirs
Conrad began dictating the series of loose autobiographical sketches that would become 'A Personal Record' in 1911, when he was half way through writing 'Under Western Eyes'. His avowed aim was to give his readers a sense of 'the man behind the...
Autobiography of an Actress; or Eight Years on the Stage - Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
Autobiography of an Actress; or Eight Years on the Stage - Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Author: Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Genre: Performing Arts / Memoirs
Anna Cora Mowatt was the author of the first Broadway comedy hit written by a woman. Her 1845 play “Fashion” is still performed today. She was also the first woman to professionally perform solo public readings of literature in the U.S. In pre-Civil...
Religio Journalistici - Christopher Morley
Religio Journalistici - Christopher Morley
- Author: Christopher Morley
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Memoirs
The great Canadian journalist and humorist ruminates and reflects upon his life and calling in this 1924 little gem. - Summary by david wales...
Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance - Ford Madox Ford
Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance - Ford Madox Ford
- Author: Ford Madox Ford
- Genre: Memoirs
Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English...
Zone Policeman 88; A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and Its Workers - Harry A. FRANCK
Zone Policeman 88; A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and Its Workers - Harry A. FRANCK
- Author: Harry A. FRANCK
- Genre: History / Memoirs
Harry A. Franck was an American travel writer. After publishing Vagabond Journey Around the World, he spent 3 months in the Canal Zone of Panama as a census-taker and police officer. This work is a series of vignettes of the Panama Canal under...
On Being Negro in America - J. Saunders Redding
On Being Negro in America - J. Saunders Redding
- Author: J. Saunders Redding
- Genre: Memoirs
A penetrating, insightful, and thoroughly honest view of one's life in the United States as an African-American. - Summary by KevinS...
The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1664 - Samuel PEPYS
The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1664 - Samuel PEPYS
- Author: Samuel PEPYS
- Genre: Memoirs
Pepys continues to live life to the hilt, juggling extra-marital shenanigans with a complicated homelife, difficulties with staff, power struggles with colleagues, concerns about his relationship with his mentor Lord Sandwich, not to mention fears...
Days with Walt Whitman - Edward CARPENTER
Days with Walt Whitman - Edward CARPENTER
- Author: Edward CARPENTER
- Genre: Memoirs
"Days with Walt Whitman" is a contemplative summary of the life of Walt Whitman and the making of the poet, by one of his followers. Edward Carpenter collected a half dozen essays he had written about different aspects of the American poet's work...
Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837). Recorded by his daughter. - Constance Campbell Petrie
Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837). Recorded by his daughter. - Constance Campbell Petrie
- Author: Constance Campbell Petrie
- Genre: History / Memoirs
Tom Petrie (1831-1910), explorer and grazier, arrived in the then convict settlement of Moreton Bay in 1837. His reminiscences of what was to become the colony of Queensland were recorded by his daughter, Constance, in 1904. The book includes a...
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 02 - Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 02 - Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
- Author: Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." (Summary by Gillian Hendrie and Wikipedia)...
The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Volume 1 of 'Scott's Last Expedition' (Version 2) - Robert Falcon Scott
The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Volume 1 of 'Scott's Last Expedition' (Version 2) - Robert Falcon Scott
- Author: Robert Falcon Scott
- Genre: Memoirs / Earth Sciences / Exploration
Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy – but also a mythic adventure story which has inspired books, articles, and films over the generations. As so often in such cases the ‘truth’ of the...
A Soldier's Diary - Ralph Scott
A Soldier's Diary - Ralph Scott
- Author: Ralph Scott
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
This 1923 memoir of a World War I soldier (Royal Engineer and hand-to-hand combatant) is a well written much respected first-hand account of the brutal fighting in the last year of the war. - Summary by David Wales...
Anglo-American Memories - George Washburn Smalley
Anglo-American Memories - George Washburn Smalley
- Author: George Washburn Smalley
- Genre: Memoirs / Essays
“These Memories [1911] were written in the first instance for Americans and have appeared week by week each Sunday in the New York Tribune…. they are mainly concerned with men of exceptional mark and position in America and Europe whom I have met,...
Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865 - Ward Hill LAMON
Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865 - Ward Hill LAMON
- Author: Ward Hill LAMON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Abraham Lincoln came to the presidency under a heavy shroud of uncertainty, not only about his threatened life but, of course, the very existence of the United States, which was already falling apart. Ward Hill Lamon was, in effect, his first Secret...
Secrets of the Friendly Woods - Rex Brasher
Secrets of the Friendly Woods - Rex Brasher
- Author: Rex Brasher
- Genre: Animals / Nature / Memoirs
Rex Brasher is best known for his having painted in watercolor a complete set of all the extant American birds during his lifetime. This is a collection of his writing that serves as a kind of memoir. These are set on his 150-acre farm purchased in...
Down In Water Street - Samuel Hopkins Hadley
Down In Water Street - Samuel Hopkins Hadley
- Author: Samuel Hopkins Hadley
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Memoirs / Christianity - Biographies
Written by the Superintendent of the Jerry McAuley Water Street Mission, "Down in Water Street" is intended to share some of the experiences the writer had during his sixteen years of service to the Mission. Hadley's intent was to show "how some...
During the Persecution: Autobiography of Father John Gerard - Father John Gerard
During the Persecution: Autobiography of Father John Gerard - Father John Gerard
- Author: Father John Gerard
- Genre: Memoirs / Christianity - Other
Fr. John Gerard (1564 – 1637) was an English Jesuit priest who operated covertly in England during the Elizabethan era, during which the Catholic Church was subject to persecution. Gerard notably not only successfully hid from the English...
Journal Of Small Things - Helen Gansevoort Edwards Mackay
Journal Of Small Things - Helen Gansevoort Edwards Mackay
- Author: Helen Gansevoort Edwards Mackay
- Genre: Memoirs
Brief journal sketches from France during WW1. The author was was American, but went on to spend much of her life in France. - Summary by kathrinee...
A Wheel Within A Wheel - Frances E. Willard
A Wheel Within A Wheel - Frances E. Willard
- Author: Frances E. Willard
- Genre: Memoirs
Frances Willard was an influential campaigner and educator for social reforms, temperance and women's education, suffrage and empowerment, as shown in her motto "Do everything". She was a long-serving national president of the Woman's Christian...
Across Mongolian Plains: A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' - Roy Chapman Andrews
Across Mongolian Plains: A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' - Roy Chapman Andrews
- Author: Roy Chapman Andrews
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography / Memoirs
An account of a 1918 journey to Northern China by famed adventurer/paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews. Andrews, who was the inspiration for the many explorer hero characters (including Indiana Jones), wrote this book for the general public,...
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom - Ellen Craft
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom - Ellen Craft
- Author: Ellen Craft
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Ellen and William Craft were a married couple who escaped from slavery in 1848 when Ellen disguised herself as a white, literate man and William pretended to be an accompanying slave. This is their story of their escape to freedom. NB Listeners may...
Over Prairie Trails - Frederick Philip Grove
Over Prairie Trails - Frederick Philip Grove
- Author: Frederick Philip Grove
- Genre: Nature / Memoirs
When Frederick Philip Grove settled in a remote area of Manitoba in the early years of the 20th century, he found work teaching in a school over 30 miles from his home. He commuted by horse-and-wagon or horse-and-sleigh each weekend, and seven of...
Korea and Her Neighbors - Isabella L. BIRD
Korea and Her Neighbors - Isabella L. BIRD
- Author: Isabella L. BIRD
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
In this book, Isabella L. Bird, who had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society only 2 years prior, describes her travels through Korea from 1894 - 1897 in her well-known style. She went on lengthy trips through the interior of what...
Holmes' Own Story - Herman W. Mudgett
Holmes' Own Story - Herman W. Mudgett
- Author: Herman W. Mudgett
- Genre: True Crime / Memoirs
An account written by the infamous serial murderer H. H. Holmes in an attempt to exonerate himself while being tried for numerous crimes in Moyamensing Prison, Philadelphia. - Summary by Autumn...
Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789 - Arthur Young
Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789 - Arthur Young
- Author: Arthur Young
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs / Early Modern
Arthur Young, an English agriculturist, set out to write a travelogue on the state of agriculture in France and found himself in the midst of the French Revolution. His report on life in the capital and in the countryside in the years 1787, 1788,...
Prayers and Meditations - Samuel Johnson
Prayers and Meditations - Samuel Johnson
- Author: Samuel Johnson
- Genre: Literary Collections / Memoirs / Christianity - Other
The prayers and meditations of Samuel Johnson, published posthumously by George Strahan to whom Johnson had entrusted the manuscripts. Johnson had been writing these down for over forty years. They often show him at his most repentant, melancholy...
A Winter of Content - Laura Lee Davidson
A Winter of Content - Laura Lee Davidson
- Author: Laura Lee Davidson
- Genre: Memoirs
A charming memoir recounting 10 months spent among the country people of Ontario at the outbreak of the Great War. Resplendent in its descriptions and heartwarming in its depictions of the 'simple' folk living along Many Islands Lake. - Summary by...
With the Empress Dowager of China - Katharine Carl
With the Empress Dowager of China - Katharine Carl
- Author: Katharine Carl
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Memoirs
Through the eyes of an artist, With the Empress Dowager of China provides a glimpse of life in the Chinese Imperial Court, unseen by any other Westerner. In 1903, Katharine Carl, an American artist, was invited to paint a portrait of Cixi, the...
Chateau and Country Life in France - Mary King Waddington
Chateau and Country Life in France - Mary King Waddington
- Author: Mary King Waddington
- Genre: Memoirs
Mary King Waddington was the American daughter of Charles King, ninth president of Columbia University, and the granddaughter of New York Senator Rufus King. She moved to France with her parents in 1871, and three years later married William...
A Bachelor Girl in Burma - Geraldine Edith Mitton
A Bachelor Girl in Burma - Geraldine Edith Mitton
- Author: Geraldine Edith Mitton
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
Miss Mitton was an unusual English woman of her time. As a published author, this unmarried woman in her early 30s recorded her visit to Burma (and Ceylon) at the turn of the 20th century. Her language is picturesque, and her attitude toward the...
The Life of John Ruskin - William Gershom COLLINGWOOD
The Life of John Ruskin - William Gershom COLLINGWOOD
- Author: William Gershom COLLINGWOOD
- Genre: Memoirs
W. G. Collingwood became a student of John Ruskin in 1872 when he started his study in University College, Oxford. For many years he dedicated himself to helping Ruskin as his resident assistant. In 1883 he settled near to Ruskin in the Lake...
Six Women and the Invasion - Gabrielle Yerta
Six Women and the Invasion - Gabrielle Yerta
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- Genre: Memoirs / War & Military
A true tale of the wartime resilience of six Frenchwomen whose country town was invaded by the Germans during World War I. - Summary by Jael Baldwin...
A Life Unveiled, by a Child of the Drumlins - Anonymous
A Life Unveiled, by a Child of the Drumlins - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Memoirs
A memoir of a young woman, who lived in the late 19th century in the United States. Starting with her pastoral youth and progressing through to her studies to become a doctor at Boston University, this is a frank and refreshing portrait of a young...
Confessions of a Tradesman - Frank Thomas Bullen
Confessions of a Tradesman - Frank Thomas Bullen
- Author: Frank Thomas Bullen
- Genre: Humor / Memoirs
Frank T. Bullen is best known for his books based on his adventures at sea. However, he had a life on shore as well. He first went to sea as a boy as a cabin boy. He there had many adventures as a hand on a whaling ship. He then came ashore and...
Across the Plains in 1844 - Catherine Sager Pringle
Across the Plains in 1844 - Catherine Sager Pringle
- Author: Catherine Sager Pringle
- Genre: Memoirs
The Sager family, including seven children, set out on the Oregon trail in 1844. Accidents and disease made it a dangerous trip, and both parents died along the way. The orphans made it to the Whitman Mission in Walla Walla, Washington, but their...
Our Village, Volume 1 - Mary Russell Mitford
Our Village, Volume 1 - Mary Russell Mitford
- Author: Mary Russell Mitford
- Genre: Single Author Collections / Memoirs
This book is a compilation of short stories originally published in several series in The Lady's Magazine. Volume 1 covers a period of about 18 months, then later, Volume 2 chronicles the changes when Miss Mitford returns to the village some 2 years...
A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador - Mina Benson Hubbard
A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador - Mina Benson Hubbard
- Author: Mina Benson Hubbard
- Genre: Memoirs / Exploration
Mina Benson Hubbard set out in 1905 on a 576 mile canoe journey across the interior of Labrador with the assistance of four guides. Her husband Leonidas Hubbard had perished in an attempt to make the same trip in 1903 while working as a writer for...
