Historical Fiction

Joshua

by Georg Ebers Read by Ann Boulais 3.6
Hosea is a commander in Pharaoh's army... and a Hebrew. As he returns home from war, he finds that there has been a great pestilence in Egy…

The House Without a Key

by Earl Derr Biggers 4.1
The novel deals with the murder of a former member of Boston society who has lived in Hawaiʻi for a number of years. The main character is t…

Catherine De' Medici

by Honoré de Balzac Read by Edmund Bloxam 3
The Philosophical Studies from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine) are a series of works that are intended as a reflection on history in p…

Joel, a Boy of Galilee

by Annie Fellows Johnston Read by Esther ben Simonides 3.5
Joel, a crippled boy, cannot play with the children and has nothing to care about. Rabbi Phineas helps him to find something he can do and t…

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald 4.1
Language: EnglishThe Great Gatsby follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the sum…

Windsor Castle

by William Harrison Ainsworth Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Book 6 - Jane Seymour. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as …

Monte-Cristo's Daughter

by Edmund Flagg Read by Jim Locke 3.4
"Monte-Cristo's Daughter," a wonderfully brilliant, original, exciting and absorbing novel, is the Sequel to "The Count of Mo…

The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt

by Théophile Gautier Read by LibriVox Volunteers 1.9
The account he gives, in his novel, of the ancient city of Thebes, of the great necropolis in the valley of Biban el Molûk, of the sub…

Leonora

by Arnold Bennett Read by Simon Evers 3.1
Leonora Stanway is 40 and lives a comfortable middle-class life with her unsympathetic and dull husband, John. Her three daughters are rapid…

Colonel Chabert

by Honoré de Balzac Read by Nicole Lee 3.5
Colonel Chabert is a soldier, who goes missing during the Napoleonic wars, and then returns from the dead, most inconveniently for his wife,…

The Lusiads

by Luís Vaz de Camões Read by Leni 2.4
The Lusiads (Os Lusíadas) is a Portuguese epic poem, written in the 16th century by Luis Vaz de Camões. The poem tells the tal…

The World's Story

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 2.2
This is the seventh 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 …

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.2
The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town …

Windsor Castle

by William Harrison Ainsworth Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Book 5 - Mabel Lyndwood. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn a…

A Bachelor's Dream

by Mrs. Hungerford Read by Lynda Marie Neilson 3.1
This is a wonderfully written novel by Mrs. Hungerford about the perennial bachelor and the various interests in his life, where he is a doc…

Sons of Fire

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by Jim Locke 3.3
"He was a stranger in Matcham, a 'foreigner' as the villagers called such alien visitors. He had never been in the village before, knew…

Windsor Castle

by William Harrison Ainsworth Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.2
Book 3 - The History of the Castle. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Ann…

Lara, A Tale

by George Gordon, Lord Byron Read by Nathan 1.1
This powerful poem narrates the fateful return of Count Lara to the British Isles after spending years abroad traveling the orient.Returning…

Cecilia

by Frances Burney Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find…

The Jungle Girl

by Gordon Casserly Read by Lynda Marie Neilson 1.8
Mrs Norton is the wife of the Political Officer and confident of Mr. Wargrave who as an officer ends up at her husbands Border Outpost, Rang…

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