Historical Fiction

Last Days of Pompeii

by Edward Bulwer-Lytton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culmi…

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 …

King Henry IV

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
King Henry IV, Part 1 is the second of Shakespeare’s eight Wars of the Roses history plays, with events following those of King Richard II. …

Healer

by J. K. Swift Read by Brad Wills 3.9
Why would anyone try to kill a healer? Deenah's quiet life as an apprentice healer in the remote village of Brae's Creek is shattered when …

Thorstein of the Mere

by William Gershom Collingwood Read by Phil Benson 4.6
A fine adventure set in 10th-century England at a time when everyday life in north was made hazardous by wars and shifting alliances among S…

An Outcast Of The Islands

by Joseph Conrad Read by Tom Weiss 3.9
An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the…

The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Ru…

The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald

by Anonymoustranslated Bywilliam Morris, Anonymoustranslated By William Morris and William James McGlothlin Read by Phil Schempf 4.5
A tale from Iceland, 800 years ago.In a dream of quarrels and deathThe birth of fair Helga is toldCross the north seas ventured for fameAt t…

Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table

by Andrew Lang Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history o…

The Story of the Romans

by H. A. Guerber Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
The Story of the Romans by H. A. Guerber invites young listeners to explore the rich tapestry of Roman history through engaging narratives. …

The House of the Wolfings

by William Morris Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
William Morris was a writer, illustrator and medievalist from the Romantic period and associated with other renowned authors of the time suc…

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…

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Jane Eyre is a profound exploration of a young woman's journey toward self-discovery and independence. Set in 19th-century England, the nove…

Conjuror's House

by Stewart Edward White Read by Roger Melin 4
In the northern outreaches of the Canadian wilderness, it was understood that the Hudson Bay Company governed all trading, and one factor na…

Moving the Mountain

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Read by Elizabeth Klett 4
Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodica…

With Frederick The Great

by G. A. Henty Read by Gary Olman 4.1
Among the great wars of history there are few, if any, instances of so long and successfully sustained a struggle, against enormous odds, as…

Night's Knights

by Emerian Rich Read by Emerian Rich 3.8
Severina is an exotic beauty from the jungles of Brazil whose family is brutally murdered by the same man she later calls lover. Markham is…

Vixen

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
This is an exquisite and heartbreaking love story. Violet Tempest and Roderick Vawdrey, otherwise known to each other as Vixen and Rorie, ar…

The Stowmarket Mystery

by Louis Tracy Read by Crln Yldz Ksr 3.6
Another case for Reginald Brett, barrister and hobby detective: David Hume-Frazer is in some trouble. He was the prime suspect in the murder…

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…

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