Historical Fiction

Windsor Castle

by William Harrison Ainsworth Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Book 1 - Anne Boleyn. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as h…

The Island of Sheep

by John Buchan 4.2
This is the last of Buchan’s ‘Richard Hannay’ novels. It’s cast of Characters, in addition to Hannay himself, includes from earlier novels, …

Salammbô

by Gustave Flaubert Read by Crln Yldz Ksr 4.2
After completing the famous Mme Bovary, Flaubert put all his efforts into researching the Punic Wars and completed the lesser known Salammb&…

hackoff.com

by Tom Evslin Read by Tom Evslin 4.1
Larry Lazard, CEO of hackoff.com, takes his company public and watches its stock price soar and collapse. Following a hostile takeover attem…

Theft of the Master

by Edwin Alexander Read by Edwin Alexander 4.1
Theft of the Master has been described as the Boys from Brazil meets The Da Vinci Code —Kirkus Private Investigator Al Hershey takes the rea…

The Terrible Business of Salmon & Dusk

by Myke Bartlett Read by Myke Bartlett 4.2
Theo Braithwaite, failed actress and worse waitress, is a stranger to London. In a single day, she loses her job, her boyfriend and quite po…

When Knighthood Was in Flower

by Charles Major Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Set during the Tudor period of English history, When Knighthood Was in Flower tells the tribulations of Mary Tudor, a younger sister of Henr…

Wild Blue Yonder

by Jack B. Rochester Read by Jack B. Rochester 3.9
Wild Blue Yonder is the coming-of-age story of Nathaniel Hawthorne Flowers, a smart but sheltered boy from suburban Chicago whose beloved fa…

The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.

by William Makepeace Thackeray Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
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 Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the…

The World's Story

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
This is the sixth 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…

The Bronze Eagle

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by Deon Gines 3.7
The Bronze Eagle is a romantic historical novel which takes place during the return of Napoleon and his attempt to reestablish his Empire. T…

The Candle Star

by Michelle Isenhoff Read by Michelle Isenhoff 4.9
Detroit, 1858. After a tantrum, Emily Preston is shipped from her plantation home to her inn-keeping Uncle in Detroit.There Emily meets Mala…

Catherine Howard

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Subtitled "The Throne, The Tomb, and The Scaffold - An Historical Play in 3 Acts From the Celebrated Play of that Name by Alexandre Dum…

The Armourer's Prentices

by Charlotte Mary Yonge Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Set in the sixteenth century, two young boys are left orphans and are turned out of their home by their older brother, or, more particularly…

The Traitor

by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Read by Michele Fry 4.2
Dixon lived through Reconstruction, and believed it ranked with the French Revolution in brutality and criminal acts. The Traitor (1907), th…

The Deluge

by Henryk Sienkiewicz Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a th…

North and South

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
North and South is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, …

The Iliad

by Homer Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Homer’s Iliad is the first great work of Western literature. Composed in twenty-four books of Greek hexameter poetry, it portrays the events…

The Witch of Salem

by John R. Musick Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
A historical novel about the Salem Witch Trials. A fantastic illustrated historical novel by the prolific American author John R. Musick.Fro…

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