Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
The Secret City
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Hugh Walpole
Written in the first person, The Secret City is a novel in three parts of a journey through post World War I Russia and the Revolution, duri…
The History of Pendennis
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William Makepeace Thackeray
In Pendennis, William Makepeace Thackeray skillfully shows the coming of age of Arthur Pendennis, a young gentleman trying to make his way i…
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (version 2)
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James Weldon Johnson
The story of a biracial man living in the deep south after the reconstruction era. He is young and talented. Yet, in order for him to avoid …
Silas Strong
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Irving Bacheller
Per the author: "The book has one high ambition. It has tried to tell the sad story of the wilderness itself—to show, from the woodsman…
Sentimental Tommy
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J. M. Barrie
"J. M. Barrie is most noted for being the author of Peter Pan, the beloved book about a child who does not want to grow up. The two Tom…
Shakspere: Personal Recollections
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John A. Joyce
A fictitious account of a "friend" of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling…
Im dunkeln Zimmer
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Bruno Frank
Im dunkeln Zimmer ist eine grüblerische Liebesgeschichte.Wegen eines Augenleidens wird dem Protagonisten vom Arzt ein Aufenthalt in ein…
Susan
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Ernest Oldmeadow
Susan is a perfect gem of a maid until suddenly she begins to mess things ups and is so distracted that her mistress Gertrude is determined …
The Autobiography of Cockney Tom
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Thomas Bastard
The Autobiography of Cockney Tom, Showing his Struggles through Life,and proving this Truth of the Old Saying"that Honesty is the best …
Por el camino de Swann Tomo I
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Marcel Proust
Por el camino de Swann (en francés, Du côté de chez Swann) es la primera entrega de la obra de Marcel Proust, En busca d…
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
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George Gissing
This novel consists of selections from the diary of an author, starting soon after his retirement and continuing until just before his death…
The Late Mattia Pascal
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Luigi Pirandello
Mattia Pascal grew up in a small Italian town not dissimilar to that of the author's upbringing. Pascal leads a somewhat feckless boyhood, a…
Lost Diaries
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Maurice Baring
Within these pages find passages from the "lost diaries" of a wide range of people: royal, regular, famous, infamous, historical…
Die Ahnen - Die Geschwister
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Gustav Freytag
Die fünfte Erzählung 'Die Geschwister' ist in sich zweigeteilt und behandelt die Geschichte zweier Militärpersonen aus der Fa…
Tommy and Grizel
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J. M. Barrie
This book continues Sentimental Tommy, also in the Librivox catalogue. Tommy grows up and marries Grizel. But life is not only roses and rai…
Mémoires d'outre-tombe. Tome 2
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François-René de Chateaubriand
Suite des Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe, deuxième partie. Après la jeunesse, sa famille, les évènements ré…
Rezanov
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Gertrude Atherton
This novel by the prolific Californian author Gertrude Horn Atherton is based on the real life story of Nikolai Rezanov, a man who, in 1806,…
The Newcomes
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William Makepeace Thackeray
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of such works as Vanity Fair, The …
Dialogues of the Dead
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George Lyttelton
Can the dead of different ages and spaces meet in the afterlife? This is a thought that has occupied a number of writers throughout literatu…
John Gutenberg, First Master Printer: His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses a…
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Franz Von Dingelstedt
This is a brief sketch of the last years of the life of Johannes (John) Gutenberg, the man who invented the movable letter press. We join hi…