Historical Fiction

The Mill on the Floss (Version 2)

Read by Tom Denholm


George Eliot



The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the l…

His Masterpiece

Read by Lisa Reichert


Émile Zola



“His Masterpiece" (“L’Oeuvre”) is a fictionalized account of the Parisian art world in the mid 19th century, and the emerging Realism, …

Richard of Jamestown: A Story of the Virginia Colony

Read by Laura Caldwell


James Otis



Richard of Jamestown by James Otis was written for children with the purpose to show them the daily home life of the Virginia colonists. It …

'Tilda Jane

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Marshall Saunders



When spunky 'Tilda Jane isn't allowed to keep her beloved dog with her at the orphanage, she decides to set out on her own in search of a ho…

Windsor Castle, Book 1

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William Harrison Ainsworth



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…

Из жизни щепок (Борис Акунин)

Read by Александр Клюквин




Из жизни щепок (Борис Акунин) Москва, 1883. В своей московской конторе отравлен Леонард фон Мак, владелец крупной железнодорожной компании.…

The Forty-Five Guardsmen

Read by John Van Stan


Alexandre Dumas



The sequel to "Chicot the Jester" and final book of the "Valois Romances." This story begins six years after the famed &…

War and Peace, Volume 1 (Maude translation)

Read by Mark Nelson


Leo Tolstoy



Leo Tolstoy’s epic historical novel chronicling the Napoleonic war in Russia. Considered one of the greatest works of literature of all time…

Der Heilige

Read by Hans Hafen


Conrad Ferdinand Meyer



Die Rahmenhandlung der Novelle "Der Heilige" bildet Hans der Armbruster, der im Jahre 1180 im Rückblick die dramatische Leben…

Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson



The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreord…

Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country

Read by Roger Melin


Irving Bacheller



Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country. Having lost both parents and his home in northern Vermont, orphan Willie Brower is taken in by Eb…

A Tale of Two Cities (Version 5)

Read by Richard Reiman


Charles Dickens



Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities is a novel that views the eighteenth century French Revolution through the lens of nineteenth century…

The Trumpet-Major

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Thomas Hardy



Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments pr…

The Spoilers

Read by Tom Weiss


Rex Beach



Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan to a prominent family and pursued a career as a lawyer before being drawn to Alaska at the time of th…

The Maid of Maiden Lane (dramatic reading)

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Amelia E. Barr



The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Mrs. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in …

Windsor Castle, Book 2

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William Harrison Ainsworth



Book 2 - Herne the Hunter. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn…

The Fortune of the Rougons

Read by Peter Tucker


Émile Zola



The Fortune of the Rougons (French: La Fortune des Rougon), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monument…

The Leopard's Spots

Read by Michele Fry


Thomas Dixon, Jr.



The first in a trilogy of the Reconstruction era - The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907), parts of this no…

Septimus

Read by Simon Evers


William John Locke



The book concerns the tangled lives of four people: Zora, a young widow who seeks some purpose in her life; Septimus Dix, an other-wordly bu…

Die Ahnen, Bd. I.1 Ingo

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Gustav Freytag



Der Vandalenprinz Ingo wird im Jahre 357 von den Römern aus seiner Heimat am Rhein vertrieben und findet Zuflucht bei einem Gastfreund …

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