Historical Fiction

Huntingtower

by John Buchan Read by Simon Evers 4.7
Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer, plans a walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English p…

The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation

by J. S. Fletcher Read by MaryAnn 4.6
Marshall Allerdyke is driving through the night from London to Hull in response to an urgent telegram from his cousin. As he nears Hull, a …

Lost Man's Lane

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Mary Bard 4.6
After several people apparently vanish into thin air while walking along the same country road, New York detective Mr Gryce calls on the ski…

The Children of the New Forest

by Frederick Marryat Read by Nick Whitley 4.6
The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is set in the time of the English Civil War …

The Mark of Zorro

by Johnston Mcculley Read by Mark F. Smith 4.8
In Spanish California, a troubling pattern had developed. The natives were reduced to peasants, the Franciscan friars that ministered to the…

The Enchanted April

by Elizabeth Von Arnim Read by Helen Taylor 4.8
Four very different women, with very different reasons for wanting to escape a cold and dreary London, come together to share a month's holi…

Dawn of the Morning

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Fresh from school, mistreated and neglected by her father and stepmother, sixteen-year-old Dawn consents to marry a friend of her father's w…

The Big Blue Soldier

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by LikeManyWaters 4.5
Back from the Great War, a penniless and disillusioned young soldier finds himself in the home of Miss Marilla Chadwick, a sweet old lady wh…

The Man of the Desert

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by LikeManyWaters 4.8
Fleeing from an aggressive suitor, Hazel Radcliffe becomes hopelessly lost in the Arizona desert. Exhausted, she falls unconscious from her …

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy Read by MaryAnn 4.7
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 8, Vr…

The Gloved Hand

by Burton Egbert Stevenson Read by Don W. Jenkins 4.5
Mr. Lester, a private investigator, and his friend Godfrey are caught up in a strange case that takes them to a large estate in the country …

He Fell in Love with His Wife

by Edward P. Roe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
James desperately needs someone to help him keep his farm going, but has failure after colossal failure finding a good housekeeper. Alida ma…

The Story of a Whim

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by LikeManyWaters 4.6
A group of girls send gifts and letters to one whom they think to be a young woman like them. "Christie" is really a poor young ba…

Anthony Trent, Master Criminal

by Wyndham Martyn Read by Anna Simon 4.8
In 1918, Anthony Trent, a well-educated young man in his late twenties, lives an unsatisfactory life in a New York boarding house. He writes…

The Borough Treasurer

by J. S. Fletcher Read by MaryAnn 4.6
Messrs. Mallalieu and Cotherstone were outsiders who had built a prosperous business in Highmarket and even been elected as Mayor and Treasu…

The Benefactress

by Elizabeth Von Arnim Read by Helen Taylor 4.4
Anna Estcourt, twenty-five and beautiful, is the penniless ward of her distant brother and his exasperating wife. Turning down all offers of…

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy Read by MaryAnn 4.7
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 4, An…

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope Read by Nick Whitley 4.7
Barchester Towers, published in 1857, is the 2nd novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". It f…

Barnaby Rudge

by Charles Dickens Read by Mil Nicholson 4.8
One of the two Historical novels Charles Dickens wrote, Barnaby Rudge is set around the ‘Gordon’ riots in London in 1780. The story begins i…

The Pathfinder

by James Fenimore Cooper Read by Mark F. Smith 4.6
Natty Bumppo goes by many names: La Longue Carabine, Hawk Eye, Leatherstocking, and in this tale, The Pathfinder. Guide, scout, hunter, and …

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