Memoirs
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand
Read by Nicole Lee
François-René de Chateaubriand
The third volume of Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb covers the spectacular fall, exile, and …
Secrets of the Friendly Woods
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Rex Brasher
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 …
Down In Water Street
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Samuel Hopkins Hadley
Written by the Superintendent of the Jerry McAuley Water Street Mission, "Down in Water Street" is intended to share some of the e…
Memories of My Life
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Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt was a popular French actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries…
The Life of Josiah Henson
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Josiah Henson
The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself is an autobiographical narrative given by J…
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand
Read by Nicole Lee
François-René de Chateaubriand
After the extinction of Napoleon's comet on St Helena, Chateaubriand covers the Bourbon Restoration in this volume, meeting a dazzling array…
The Outermost House
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Henry Beston
A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod - Summary by subtitle
An American Idyll
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Cornelia Stratton Parker
In a memoir marked by joy, love, and an unbending sense of adventure, Cornelia Stratton Parker reveals the heart of a unique man and their l…
Autobiography of an Actress
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Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
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 w…
Journal Of Small Things
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Helen Gansevoort Edwards Mackay
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 ka…
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope
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Charles Lewis Meryon and Lady Hester Stanhope
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in Conversations with her Physician, comprising her opinions and anecdotes of som…
Man-of-War Life
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Charles Nordhoff
In 1844, Charles Nordhoff joined the U.S. Navy at the young age of 14. He describes his around-the-world adventure as a young sailor aboard …
The Gentle Persuasion
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Alan Gray
Twelve stories from the author's life in Scotland, by Robert Cuthbert Johnstone, writing as Alan Gray. For more information on the author se…
Reminiscences and Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers
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Samuel Rogers
Samuel Rogers was a renowned conversationalist who associated with the most distinguished persons of his time. This volume contains fascinat…
Germany Before the War
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Napoleon-Eugène Beyens
Baron Beyens was a senior member of the Belgian diplomatic service who was posted to Berlin in 1912. His book, published in early 1916, is i…
Seen and Unseen
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Emily Katharine Bates and E. Katharine Bates
Novelist. Psychic investigator. Globe trotter. The multi-plane traveler, E. Katharine Bates, shares her phenomenal adventures on the cusp of…
What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
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John Hanning Speke
This volume by British explorer Captain John Hanning Speke contains accounts of his first two expeditions into East Africa in the 1850s. Vol…
The Third Voyage of James Cook
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James Cook
Only months after his return from his mammoth Second Voyage, the Admiralty ordered Cook back to the Pacific, ostensibly to return Omai, a yo…
Under the Guns
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Annie Wittenmyer and Annie Wittenmyer
Preface:The stories and reminiscences in this book are true to life, every one of them. They are told just as they occurred, without any att…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…