Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure is a controversial 18th-century novel that explores the life of a young woman navigating the complexities o...
1819 gerät das Handelshaus, bei dem Johanna Schopenhauer ihr ganzes Geld angelegt hat, in Zahlungsschwierigkeiten. Beim anschließenden Vergleich verli...
"I have known, and loved, and studied many cats, but my knowledge of her (Pretty Lady, a cat) alone would convince me that cats love people--in their...
The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of settlers to cultivate all the mental resources of a superior educati...
Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his experience...
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 different recordings of Alice Pleasance Liddell by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of...
Stanton H. King was from Barbados and followed his brothers to sea at the age of twelve in 1880. He spent only twelve years at sea for reasons given i...
The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the "westering fever" of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Si...
Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, the world'...
"If you have visions of a middle-aged parasol-bearing lady smiling sweetly from her carriage as she tours Bendigo think again. In 1852, 20 year old cl...
'Two Years in the Forbidden City' offers a unique glimpse into the inner workings of the Qing Dynasty court through the eyes of Der Ling Yu, a close c...
Castles in the Air is a short novel or a collection of interconnected stories told in the form of an autobiography by a charming yet unscrupulous Fren...
Adrift on an Ice-Pan is an autobiographical work by Sir Wilfred Grenfell. The book describes the author's harrowing experience caught on a small drift...
This book is a blend of travelogue, memoir, and literary criticism, following in the footsteps of Charles Dickens through the county of Kent. The auth...
Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography is a captivating and often shocking account of his extraordinary life during the Italian Renaissance. A gifted scul...
Autobiography of Cockney Tom is a memoir that chronicles the struggles and triumphs of a young man named Tom in the 1800s. Born into poverty in Englan...
This book is a collection of personal memories, gossip, letters, and fragments of biography about famous people who have lived in Piccadilly, London....
Glengarry School Days is a collection of affectionate and gently amusing sketches based on Ralph Connor's memories of growing up in rural Ontario arou...
Four Weeks in the Trenches offers a first-hand account of the harrowing experiences of a soldier on the Eastern Front during World War I. Through Frit...
The book offers a glimpse into the life and times of Lily Braun, a prominent German socialist and feminist. Born into an aristocratic family, Braun de...
The Log of a Cowboy is a classic account of a five-month cattle drive from Texas to Montana in 1882. Based on the author's own experiences, the book p...
In "A-Birding on a Bronco," Florence A. Merriam Bailey chronicles her experiences as an early ornithologist. She details her expeditions to a Califor...
A practical guide to adventure travel in the Victorian era, covering everything from planning an expedition to dealing with hostile natives. Galton pr...
The book comprises the letters of Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, one of the central figures of the American Revolution. The letters offer an intim...
