Historical Fiction

North and South

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by MaryAnn 4.8
North and South is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural so…

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 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…

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…

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 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…

El Dorado

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by Karen Savage 4.8
In El Dorado, Baroness Emma Orczy continues the thrilling escapades of the enigmatic hero known as the Scarlet Pimpernel. Set against the ba…

The Dust Flower

by Basil King Read by Simon Evers 4.7
Rashleigh Allerton, a wealthy New Yorker, quarrels with his well-to-do fiancée Barbara and impetuously says that he will marry instea…

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…

The Mysterious Rider

by Zane Grey Read by Mary Bard 4.7
This book has all the elements of a classic Western, including rustling and gunfights, but at its heart is the battle between good and evil,…

The Semi-Attached Couple

by Emily Eden Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.6
Young and beautiful Helen Eskdale and fabulously wealthy Lord Teviot seem to be the perfect match. But when they marry, they find that misun…

The Black Arrow

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Mark F. Smith 4.7
In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. …

The Rainbow Trail

by Zane Grey Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.6
The Rainbow Trail is a sequel to The Riders of the Purple Sage. Both novels are notable for their protagonists' mild opposition to Mormon po…

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.7
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court transports readers from 19th-century America to the legendary realm of Camelot, where the clash …

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 …

The People of the Black Circle

by Robert E. Howard Read by Mark Nelson 4.6
"The People of the Black Circle" is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. H…

The Custom of the Country

by Edith Wharton Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.6
Edith Wharton's 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional M…

The Eyes Of The World

by Harold Bell Wright Read by Tom Weiss 4.7
The Eyes of the World was the Best Selling Book for 1914 according to Publisher's Weekly. The novel explores what Harold Bell Wright views a…

A Prairie-Schooner Princess

by Mary Katherine Maule Read by Sharon Kilmer 4.7
The story of a Quaker family's journey from Ohio to Nebraska beginning in 1856. They encounter a mystery which leaves them an orphan girl wh…

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