Historical Fiction
A Cry From An Indian Wife
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E. Pauline Johnson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of A Cry From an Indian Wife by E. Pauline Johnson,. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for…
Marriage
Read by Patti Cunningham
Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier
"Love!--A word by superstition thought a God; by use turned to an humour; by self-will made a flattering madness." - Alexander and…
The Daughter of the Sioux
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Charles King
Charles King was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He was the son of Civil War general Rufus King and great grandson of Ru…
Ivanhoe
Read by Bart de Leeuw
Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe is een historische roman uit 1819 van Sir Walter Scott. Het verhaal speelt ten tijde van het bewind van koning Richard Leeuwenhart e…
The Rough Road
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
The book tells the story of "Doggie" Trevor, who, having been wrapped in cotton wool since babyhood, becomes a snobbish rich dilet…
Paul: A Herald of the Cross
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Florence Morse Kingsley
This is an exciting sequel to the earlier books Titus: A Comrade of the Cross and Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross. It tells the story of the…
La fortune des Rougon
Read by Bidou
Émile Zola
La Fortune des Rougon est le premier volume de la série Les Rougon-Macquart. Il se déroule dans une petite ville appelé…
Peter und Alexej
Dmitri Sergejewitsch Mereschkowski
Historischer Roman über den russischen Zaren Peter I. Mit großer Authentizität schildert der Autor den Reformprozess der unt…
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
A classic Victorian novel and a historical novel rolled into one! Read about court and army life during the reign of Queen Anne - a story of…
The Brushwood Boy
Read by Liam Neely
Rudyard Kipling
The experiences in public school, Sandhurst and military life in India of Major George Cotter together with his adventures in the dream worl…
The Pilot
Read by Jim Locke
James Fenimore Cooper
The work, which was admired by Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad for its authentic portrayal of a seafaring life and takes place during the …
Leonora
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
Leonora Stanway is 40 and lives a comfortable middle-class life with her unsympathetic and dull husband, John. Her three daughters are rapid…
Clementina
Read by Jacquerie
A. E. W. Mason
This well-written novel is a fictional account of a true historical rescue mission. In 1719, at the age of 17, when she was on her way acros…
Catherine Howard
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Alexandre Dumas
Subtitled "The Throne, The Tomb, and The Scaffold - An Historical Play in 3 Acts From the Celebrated Play of that Name by Alexandre Dum…
Taras Bulba
Read by Simon Hoare
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Taras Bulba is a romanticised historical novella by Nikolai Gogol set in Russia’s equivalent of America’s wild frontier, what is today Ukrai…
Urbain Grandier
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
This is the dramatic story of Urbain Grandier, a catholic priest, who had a reputation to rival that of Casanova, which ultimately led to hi…
The World’s Story
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Eva March Tappan
This is the fifth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…
Elsie's New Relations
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Martha Finley
In this ninth book in the classic Elsie Dinsmore series, the family finishes their summer at the seaside and returns to Ion. The narrative t…
The Inner Shrine
Read by Simon Evers
Basil King
At the opening of this story Diane Eveleth returns from a party in Paris to her mother-in-law, who tells her that her husband George Eveleth…