Historical Fiction
''Mr Rowl''
Read by Elin
D. K. Broster
Raoul des Sablières, a French parole prisoner in England during the Napoleonic Wars, becomes enmeshed in a complicated tangle where h…
Old Mortality
Read by Deon Gines
Sir Walter Scott
Old Mortality is part of the Waverley series by Walter Scott. Set in southwest Scotland in the late 1600s, during the period of the Covenant…
Stella Maris
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Stellamaris is a young paralysed girl who is confined to a bed in the Channel House overlooking the English Channel. She is cared for by her…
The Voyage to Vinland
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James Russell Lowell
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Voyage to Vinland by James Russell Lowell. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Mar…
The Brown Brethren
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Patrick Macgill
The Brown Brethren tells the story of friends and comrades who fought together during World War I on the Western Front. The principal charac…
Atala
Read by William Allan Jones
François-René de Chateaubriand
What were the lower Mississippi River, Gulf Coast regions, and Appalachians of North America like in the earliest colonial days? Full of unt…
Kangaroo
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D. H. Lawrence
"Kangaroo" is the nickname of a character in this novel, Benjamin Cooley, who was a charismatic leader in the fascist movement of …
When London Burned
Read by Keith Salis
G. A. Henty
Follow the exciting beginnings of the career of Sir Cyril Shenstone. Orphaned at the death of his father, Sir Aubrey Shenstone, Cyril begins…
Arachne
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Georg Ebers
Ledscha, living in ancient Egypt, has lost her betrothed and all hope of love. But the gods see otherwise. She now loves a Greek sculptor, w…
The Castle of Twilight
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Margaret Horton Potter
"Wistfully I deliver up to you my simple story, knowing that the first suggestion of “historical novel” will bring before you an image …
A Study in Shadows
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Among the mixture of people spending the summer in a pension (boarding house) in Geneva are Felicia, a 20-year-old, and Katherine (30) who b…
A Man from the North
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
Richard Larch, a young man from the north of England, arrives in London to seek his fortune. By day he works as a clerk in an office but has…
Helen of the Old House
Read by Bob R
Harold Bell Wright
Helen is not the main character; it is the mill, in this small town in the first half of the 20th century. This is a story of labor strife, …
The Chouans (version 2)
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
“The Chouans” (1829) was the first novel published under Balzac’s own name (rather than a pen-name). It became the first book in the great w…
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 4, To California and Return
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Artemus Ward
Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer and lecturer under the name of Artemus Ward. Like his friend Mark Twain,…
Consuelo
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George Sand
This roman à clef follows the musical adventures of Consuelo, a gifted singer under the tutelage of the composer Nicola Porpora. Afte…
Oil!
Read by Bob R
Upton Sinclair
The two main characters of “Oil” are James Arnold Ross, called “Dad”, and his son James Jr., called “Bunny”. The book is loosely based on a …
Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Wit…
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John Kendrick Bangs
Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous spin on encounters with several famous people of the time. "I …
Gudrun
Read by Steven Fellows
Ferdinand Schmidt
The charming story of “Gudrun” is a romance of the old heroic period, written by some unknown poet of Austria or Bavaria in the thirteenth c…
Prince and Heretic
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Marjorie Bowen
This novel is centered on the Dutch House of Orange, and begins with its prince, William. It is set in the time of the Holy Inquisition, whe…