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

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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

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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

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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 …

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