Historical Fiction

For the Term of His Natural Life

by Marcus Clarke Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
For the Term of his Natural Life, written by Marcus Clarke, was published in the Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872 (as His Natural Li…

The Scottish Chiefs

by Jane Porter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Scottish Chiefs is a historical adventure novel that brings to life the legendary figure of William Wallace, a Scottish hero who fought …

Louise de la Valliere

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Set against the backdrop of 17th-century France, Louise de la Vallière continues the saga of the legendary Musketeers, weaving a tale…

The Pilot

by James Fenimore Cooper Read by Jim Locke 4.2
The work, which was admired by Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad for its authentic portrayal of a seafaring life and takes place during the …

Germinal

by Émile Zola Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Fresque sociale qui décrit les conditions de vie des mineurs au XIXème siècle, Germinal est le treizième roman d…

Barnaby Rudge

by Charles Dickens Read by Debra Lynn 4.6
A wayside tavern where the local men drink and gossip; an unsolved, twenty year old murder at a nearby mansion; a very talkative black raven…

The Coming Wrath

by John K. Reed Read by John K. Reed 4.7
A world lost in time and history. The earth as it was before the world wide flood destroyed the face of the planet almost five thousand year…

Eyes Like the Sea

by Mór Jókai Read by MaryAnn 4.4
He was a painter, a poet, a novelist. He lived during the Hungarian revolution and his love of freedom meant his life was often in peril. Sh…

A Group of Noble Dames

by Thomas Hardy Read by Libby Gohn 4.4
The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of…

Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady

by Samuel Richardson Read by Nicole Lee 4.4
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady is a profound exploration of virtue and the struggles of a young woman in 18th-century Engl…

The Metropolis

by Upton Sinclair Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
In this 1907 novel about the extravagant life of New York City’s high society, the author of The Jungle, presents a portrait of the wealthy …

Three Soldiers

by John Dos Passos Read by mb 4.3
Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First Worl…

Gerona

by Benito Pérez Galdós Read by Tux 4.7
"Gerona" es la séptima novela de la primera serie de los Episodios Nacionales de Benito Pérez Galdós. Contin&…

An Outback Marriage

by Andrew Barton Paterson and Banjo Paterson Read by Arrowhead Aussie 4.3
A ROLLICKING YARN FROM AN AUSTRALIAN LEGENDBanjo Paterson is our best known and most loved bush poet. Less well known, but no less captivati…

Paul: A Herald of the Cross

by Florence Morse Kingsley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This is an exciting sequel to the earlier books Titus: A Comrade of the Cross and Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross. It tells the story of the…

The Valley of Decision

by Edith Wharton Read by Robert Keiper 4.3
Odo Valsecca, a promising nobleman, inherits a dukedom at a young age and, over the course of his young life, must quickly learn the politic…

Invito Rex

by Brand Gamblin Read by Brand Gamblin 4.6
In a fantastic world not too far ahead of us, Victorian sensibilities have brought back the monarchy, with a caste system that is lethally e…

A Vital Question

by Nikolai Chernyshevsky Read by Expatriate 3.9
Despised by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, What Is To Be Done? is a fascinating, sympathetic story of idealistic revolutionaries in mid-nineteenth…

Salammbô

by Gustave Flaubert Read by Crln Yldz Ksr 4.2
After completing the famous Mme Bovary, Flaubert put all his efforts into researching the Punic Wars and completed the lesser known Salammb&…

Rob Roy

by Sir Walter Scott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
Rob Roy is a historical novel by Walter Scott. It is narrated by Frank Osbaldistone, the son of an English merchant who travels first to the…

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