Historical Fiction

The Rough Road

by William John Locke Read by Simon Evers 4.8
The book tells the story of "Doggie" Trevor, who, having been wrapped in cotton wool since babyhood, becomes a snobbish rich dilet…

Pimpernel and Rosemary

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by Holly 4.3
A novel in the Scarlet Pimpernel series that features Peter Blakeney, a descendant of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Peter's adventures take him to…

The Lancashire Witches

by William Harrison Ainsworth Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017) 4.8
The Lancashire Witches is a highly fictionalised account of the activities of the notorious witches Demdike, Chattox and Alice Nutter who, t…

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad Read by Peter Dann 4.6
In this powerful novella based on Joseph Conrad's own experiences in the Belgian Congo, Charles Marlow, an experienced seaman, tells a small…

The Eustace Diamonds

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace, is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. Wh…

Johnny Reb and Billy Yank

by Alexander Hunter Read by Barry Eads 4.6
Johnny Reb & Billy Yank is an epic novel first published in 1905 by Alexander Hunter, a soldier who served in Confederate General Robert…

With Moore at Corunna

by G. A. Henty Read by Charles P. Sapp 4.7
Terrence O’Conner, Son of an officer in the “Mayo Fusiliers,” joins as an ensign when the regiment is called out to Portugal to fight the Fr…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

Selected Uncle Abner Mysteries

by Melville Davisson Post Read by Winston Tharp 4.5
Fourteen mysteries from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, the Metropolitan, Red Book, and Pictorial Review magazines featuring Uncle A…

Phineas Redux

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Phineas Finn is the fourth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. At the end of Phineas Finn, the second novel in the series, Phineas…

A Lady of Quality

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by Linda Andrus 4.1
A Lady of Quality transports listeners to late 17th-century England, where the life of a spirited woman unfolds against a backdrop of societ…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir”) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, firs…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by MaryAnn 4.6
”War and Peace” is a panoramic novel: It is its own justification, and perhaps needs no introduction. It always reminds the translator of a …

The Scouts of Stonewall

by Joseph A. Altsheler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
In this third book of Joseph Altsheler's Civil War series, Harry Kenton, a lieutenant in the Southern Army, is on scout patrol in the Shenan…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
In Part 2, Kitty’s health deteriorates from regret and heartbreak, while Levin retreats to his country estate. Anna and Vronsky continue to …

A Great Man

by Arnold Bennett Read by Simon Evers 4.6
Subtitled 'A Frolic', this light-hearted book follows the fortunes of Henry Shakespeare Knight who, rather to his own surprise, writes a bes…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir”) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, firs…

The Brethren

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Abigail Rasmussen 4.8
Set in the days of the Crusaders, this books tells of a young maiden named Rosamund, and her twin cousins. Godwin is the grey eyed thoughtfu…

The House by the Churchyard

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Read by John 4.6
Murder, mystery, mayhem, romance and relationships. Our classic who-done-it takes place in olde Dublin, Ireland in the village of Chapelizod…

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