Historical Fiction

The Postmaster's Daughter

by Louis Tracy Read by Sharon Kilmer 4.3
A charming mystery story set in the early 1900s which is as much about the townspeople, sleuths and othercolorful characters as it is about …

The Benefactress

by Elizabeth Von Arnim Read by Helen Taylor 4.4
Anna Estcourt, twenty-five and beautiful, is the penniless ward of her distant brother and his exasperating wife. Turning down all offers of…

Household Puzzles

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.7
Household Puzzles peeks into the life of the Randolph family, four daughters and one son. They are financially strapped but must follow soci…

One of the 28th

by G. A. Henty Read by Mike Harris 4.7
One of the 28th transports listeners to the tumultuous era of the Napoleonic Wars, where valor and romance intertwine amidst the chaos of ba…

Diary of a U-boat Commander

by Stephen King-Hall Read by Mark F. Smith 4.6
Captain Karl von Schenk of the Kaiser's Navy is a stereotypical German nobleman - supremely self-confident, touchy about the divisions of cl…

The Circular Study

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Jacquerie 4.4
In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He…

The Fur Country

by Jules Verne Read by Esther 4.5
In 1859, officers of the Hudson's Bay Company travel through the Northwest Territories of Canada on a mission to found a fort at 70 degrees,…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

In the Mayor's Parlour

by J. S. Fletcher Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.5
“Rotten borough” is a term that goes back to the 18th century, and it used to mean a parliamentary constituency in which a few property owne…

Rilla of Ingleside

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Anne of Green Gables is all grown up and married, and this is the story of her daughter “Rilla”, named for the indomitable Marilla Cuthbert …

Uncle Bernac

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Cate Barratt 4.5
Looking for a replacement to Sherlock Holmes after the author had killed him off in 1894, Doyle wrote this murder mystery in the dying years…

Jo's Boys

by Louisa May Alcott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Jo’s little men and women are grown up and entering new stages of life. Along with discovering their individual niches, there are lots of le…

The Rain-Girl

by Herbert George Jenkins Read by Anna Simon 4.5
Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he…

The Hand of Ethelberta

by Thomas Hardy Read by Simon Evers 4.5
Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but became a governess and consequently, at the age of 18, married well. However, her husband …

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe Read by John Greenman 4.8
Among the most “banned” books in the United States, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beeche…

Scaramouche

by Rafael Sabatini Read by Gord Mackenzie 4.8
Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a la…

What's Mine's Mine

by George MacDonald Read by Hannah Mary 4.8
Set in the invigorating wilds of Scotland, clans are crumbling and emigrating as their homeland is bought out from under them. The character…

The Man Who Fell Through the Earth

by Carolyn Wells Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
A lawyer is leaving his office on the top floor of an office building. He sees the shadows of two men fighting through the clouded glass of …

At Agincourt

by G. A. Henty Read by Mike Harris 4.7
The story begins in a grim feudal castle in Normandie. The times were troublous, and soon the king compelled Lady Margaret de Villeroy, with…

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens Read by Phil Benson 4.7
Hard Times was Dickens's shortest novel and the only one to be set in the industrial north of England. A fast moving story with a typical ca…

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