Historical Fiction
With Moore at Corunna
Read by Charles P. Sapp
G. A. Henty
Terrence O’Conner, Son of an officer in the “Mayo Fusiliers,” joins as an ensign when the regiment is called out to Portugal to fight the Fr…
Helen
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children…
The Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine
Read by James E. Carson
William Carleton
A story about the Irish, just before the onset of the famine of 1847, with all the color and dialogue of a man who lived it. (Summary by JCa…
Selected Uncle Abner Mysteries
Read by Winston Tharp
Melville Davisson Post
Fourteen mysteries from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, the Metropolitan, Red Book, and Pictorial Review magazines featuring Uncle A…
Salammbô
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Gustave Flaubert
After completing the famous Mme Bovary, Flaubert put all his efforts into researching the Punic Wars and completed the lesser known Salammb&…
Montes de Oca
Read by Tux
Benito Pérez Galdós
Manuel Montes de Oca (Medina-Sidonia, 1804 – Vitoria, 20 de octubre de 1841) fue un marino y ministro de Marina, Comercio y Ultramar durante…
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
This satire on the U.S.A.'s myth of being the "Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal", is unrelenting in its pur…
The Little Colonel
Read by Maria Therese
Annie Fellows Johnston
The scene of this story is laid in Kentucky. Its heroine is a small girl, who is known as the Little Colonel, on account of her fancied rese…
Vergara
Read by Tux
Benito Pérez Galdós
El general Espartero, acogiendo a Fernando Calpena en su ejército y en su familia, le encomienda una delicada misión, no exent…
The World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Eva March Tappan
This is the third 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…
El Equipaje del Rey José
Read by KendalRigans
Benito Pérez Galdós
El equipaje del rey José (1875) es la primera novela de la segunda serie de los Episodios nacionales de Benito Pérez Gald&oacu…
Edward II
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Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan tragedy focuses on the downfall of King Edward II, whose love for his favorite courtier, Piers Gaveston, l…
The Virginians
Read by Nick Bulka
William Makepeace Thackeray
It tells the story of Henry Esmond's twin grandsons, George and Henry Warrington. Henry's romantic entanglements with an older woman lead up…
Canaã
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José Pereira da Graça Aranha and José Pereira Da Graça Aranha
Milkau e Lentz são dois jovens alemães que imigram para Porto do Cachoeiro, Espírito Santo. Trabalhando como colonos, d…
Callista
Read by Carol Pelster
John Henry Newman
Callista, A Tale of the Third Century, was written by John Henry Newman, who was a scholarly and personable Anglican theologian who became a…
Fortunata y Jacinta: dos historias de casadas (Tercera Parte)
Read by Epachuko
Benito Pérez Galdós
"Fortunata y Jacinta" esta considerada la mejor obra de su autor: Benito Pérez Galdós, y junto con "La Regenta&…
Clayhanger (Version 2)
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
A coming-of-age story about Edwin Clayhanger, who leaves school, has his ambition to become an architect thwarted by his tyrannical father, …
The World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome
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Eva March Tappan
This is the fourth 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 T…
Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt
Read by Sibella Denton
James Baikie
Written primarily for children, James Baikie's 'peep' at ancient Egypt is a really well done, historical account of the ways of that fascina…
Felix Holt, The Radical
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George Eliot
"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is …