Historical Fiction

To Have And To Hold

by Mary Johnston Read by Tom Weiss 4.6
When I first started reading this book, I thought it to be a historical romance novel. As I read further, I pondered whether it might be a s…

The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.7
Volume 3 of The d'Artagnan Romances is divided into three parts. The first begins in 1660, ten years after Volume 2, with d’Artagnan as Lieu…

Havelok the Dane

by Charles Watts Whistler Read by Tony Foster 4.8
Troy, Athens, Rome... each has its founding legend. So too does the Lincolnshire town of Grimsby, once the largest fishing port in the world…

Purgatory

by Tim Dodge Read by Tim Dodge 4.7
Charles Cunningham, a wealthy real estate developer, dies unexpectedly and finds himself in Purgatory, the place between heaven and hell. Th…

On the Eve

by Ivan Turgenev Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.6
On the Eve appeared in 1860, two years before Fathers and Sons, Turgenev's most famous novel. It is set in the prior decade (by the end of t…

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil

by Anthony Trollope Read by Simon Evers 4.5
Harry Heathcote is an English ‘squatter’ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sist…

Waverley

by Sir Walter Scott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or…

Bonnie Prince Charlie

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This is a tale of the son of a Scottish officer, who gets arrested for helping a Jacobite agent. Set during the Jacobite rebellion in Scotl…

I Will Repay

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by Annie Kirkpatrick 4.1
I Will Repay is the thrilling sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, continuing the adventures of the enigmatic hero, Sir Percy Blakeney. Set agai…

The Blazed Trail

by Stewart Edward White Read by Tom Weiss 4.7
Stewart Edward White wrote fiction and non-fiction about adventure and travel, with an emphasis on natural history and outdoor living. White…

Under Western Eyes

by Joseph Conrad Read by Expatriate 4.5
Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is vie…

Völsungasaga

by Anonymous Read by Corpang 4.6
The 13th century Icelandic Völsungasaga is usually read by people studying the Poetic Edda or Wagner's Ring - which obscures the fact i…

Jewish Children

by שלום עליכם Sholem Aleichem Read by Adrian Praetzellis 4.7
Although written from a child's perspective, this is not a kids book but a series of funny, poignant, and sometimes disturbing stories about…

La caja de amatista

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Victor Villarraza 4.6
Anna Katharine Green es considerada la madre de la novela de detectives. Fue una escritora admirada por autores de su tiempo como Wilkie Col…

The Talisman

by Sir Walter Scott Read by Lizzie Driver 4.3
The Talisman is a gripping tale set near the end of the Third Crusade. King Richard the Lionheart is grievously ill, and all around him the …

'Tilda Jane

by Marshall Saunders Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
When spunky 'Tilda Jane isn't allowed to keep her beloved dog with her at the orphanage, she decides to set out on her own in search of a ho…

The Ladies' Paradise

by Émile Zola Read by Kristin G. 4.6
Zola's original French publication, Au Bonheur des Dames ("The Ladies' Delight"), published 1882, is the eleventh novel in his Rou…

A Dance With Demons

by Jeff Offringa Read by Jeff Offringa 4.3
Tarn Nohmal doesn't want much out of life. Food on the table, a roof over his head, and privacy. But when his old commander shows up and nee…

The Hidden Institute

by Brand Gamblin Read by Brand Gamblin 4.6
Rising above your station can be deadly. Cliffy is a child born on the streets of a Neo-Victorian world. Witnesses to a murder, he blackmai…

Robin Hood

by J. Walker McSpadden Read by Barry Eads 4.7
Step into the legendary world of Robin Hood, the iconic outlaw of English folklore. Known for his unmatched archery skills and daring exploi…

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