Memoirs - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 7
All in the Day's Work - Ida M. TARBELL
All in the Day's Work - Ida M. TARBELL
- Author: Ida M. TARBELL
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern (20th C)
In this autobiography, written when the author was 82 years old, Ida Tarbell looks back at her life and remarkable career as an investigative journalist. Ms. Tarbell is best known for her 1904 work, "The History of the Standard Oil Company," which...
The Diary of a Country Parson - James Woodforde
The Diary of a Country Parson - James Woodforde
- Author: James Woodforde
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Memoirs
The Revd. James Woodforde was an English clergyman, best known for his vivid account of parish life in the 18th century. His diary, edited by John Beresford, remained unpublished until the 20th century. The diary provides a wonderfully full account...
A Journey Round My Room - Xavier de Maistre
A Journey Round My Room - Xavier de Maistre
- Author: Xavier de Maistre
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Memoirs
Sentenced to house arrest for forty-two days owing to his participation in a duel, Xavier de Maistre was inspired to write a travel memoir about the greatest journey a man can take. It is a journey which costs nothing, one which is equally...
Oscar Wilde and Myself - Lord Alfred DOUGLAS
Oscar Wilde and Myself - Lord Alfred DOUGLAS
- Author: Lord Alfred DOUGLAS
- Genre: Memoirs
The first memoir by the poet Lord Alfred βBosieβ Douglas was written 14 years after the death of Oscar Wilde and in the aftermath of Douglas's failed prosecution of Arthur Ransome for libel. Ransome, in his "Oscar Wilde, a Critical Study," had...
Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon - Austen Layard
Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon - Austen Layard
- Author: Austen Layard
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Memoirs / Antiquity
Austen Henry Layard is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after...
The Gentle Persuasion - Alan Gray
The Gentle Persuasion - Alan Gray
- Author: Alan Gray
- Genre: Memoirs
Twelve stories from the author's life in Scotland, by Robert Cuthbert Johnstone, writing as Alan Gray. For more information on the author see his biography by the Manitoba Historical Society....
Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer - Henry Dawson
Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer - Henry Dawson
- Author: Henry Dawson
- Genre: Memoirs / Transportation
Henry Dawson has written several vignettes of railroad men from the days of steam locomotives. His goal is to show the reader that they are not just rough men, but are also brave and heroic men through descriptions of divers dangers encountered on...
Reminiscences Of A Workhouse Medical Officer - Joseph Rogers
Reminiscences Of A Workhouse Medical Officer - Joseph Rogers
- Author: Joseph Rogers
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Medical / Memoirs
Joseph Rogers (1821-1889) was an English physician, medical officer, and health care reformer in London. The system of poor-law dispensaries and separate sick wards, with proper staffs of medical attendants and nurses, was due to the efforts of...
