Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Boyhood
Read by Bill Boerst
Leo Tolstoy
Boyhood is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, published in a literary journal …
The Autobiography of Methuselah
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John Kendrick Bangs
A satirical look at early biblical events from the point of view of someone who was there to witness most of them: the oldest man in recorde…
Castle Rackrent
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Maria Edgeworth
"One of the most inspired chronicles written in English" was the verdict of William Butler Yeats on the novel Castle Rackrent by M…
Vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón
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Vicente Espinel
Las «Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón» (1618) son una novela picaresca, provista de muchos elementos …
The Vicar's Daughter
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George MacDonald
This is the third book of the 'Marshmallow' trilogy. It is a fictional autobiography written by Ethelwyn Percivale, or 'Wynnie'. Her father …
Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House
Read by Bridget Gaige
Harriet E. Wilson
Frado is a colored girl, living in the USA a few years before the Civil War. She is abandoned by her own white mother in the house of the Be…
Último día de un reo de muerte
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Victor Hugo
Víctor Hugo escribió esta obra a raíz de ver a un verdugo ensayando con la guillotina para la ejecución del d&ia…
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Read by James K. White
James Weldon Johnson
Johnson's only novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, was originally published anonymously in 1912. It is a fictional novel written …
The Last Day of a Condemned
Read by Alisson Veldhuis
Victor Hugo
A man who has been condemned to death writes down his cogitations, feelings and fears while he is waiting for his execution. He does not bet…
The Adventures of Roderick Random
Read by Arthur Krolman
Tobias Smollett
I am Roderick Random. This is the contemporary story of my struggle against the adversity of orphan-hood, poverty, press gangs, bloody duels…
Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving
Read by Greg Giordano
Washington Irving
Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with…
In the Bishop's Carriage
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Miriam Michelson
Nancy 'Nance' Olden, a young and very pretty woman, is an accomplished liar and thief. Raised in a horrific orphanage, called the Cruelty by…
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel…
Tagebuch einer Verlorenen
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Margarete Böhme
Die junge Thymian schreibt episodenhaft über ihr Schicksal in Tagebuchform: Gesellschaftskritisch prangert sie darin das schwere Los je…
Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge ist ein 1910 veröffentlichter Roman in Tagebuchform von Rainer Maria Rilke - sein einziger …
A Rogue's Life
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Wilkie Collins
"[T]he story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles Dickens f…
Heimskringla: The Stories of the Kings of Norway, Called The Round World
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Snorri Sturleson
Heimskringla (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈheimsˌkʰriŋla]) is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Ice…
The Forty-Five Guardsmen
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
The sequel to "Chicot the Jester" and final book of the "Valois Romances." This story begins six years after the famed &…
Studies in the Art of Rat-Catching
Read by Clive Catterall
Henry C. Barkley
This book is often described as an instruction manual on the subject of rat-catching. It does indeed contain a good deal about rats, ferrets…
Leave it to PSmith
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P. G. Wodehouse
Freddie Threepwood and his uncle are in difficulties. Freddie wants a thousand pounds to start a bookmaker’s business and to marry Eve, whil…