Historical Fiction

Elsie's Children

by Martha Finley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
In "Elsie's Children," the beloved characters from the "Elsie Dinsmore" series return, now as parents navigating the com…

His Masterpiece

by Émile Zola Read by Lisa Reichert 4.5
“His Masterpiece" (“L’Oeuvre”) is a fictionalized account of the Parisian art world in the mid 19th century, and the emerging Realism, …

The Cloister and the Hearth

by Charles Reade Read by Tom Denholm 4.8
'The Cloister and the Hearth', by Charles Reade, was published in 1861. It's a long and winding picaresque novel set in 15th century Europe,…

The Marrow of Tradition

by Charles Waddell Chesnutt Read by James K. White 4.9
In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the ra…

The Black Arrow

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The Black Arrow tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of the Roses: how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sed…

Where Love Is

by William John Locke Read by Simon Evers 4.6
Norma Hardacre is a member of smart London society. She finds herself irresistibly drawn to a penniless artist named Jimmie Padgate. However…

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.7
The d'Artagnan Romances are six volumes that intertwine exciting events (real and fictionalized) from 17th-century Europe and the life of th…

The Old English Baron

by Clara Reeve Read by MaryAnn 4.4
The story follows the adventures of Sir Philip Harclay, who returns to medieval England to find that the castle seat and estate of his frien…

The Man in the Iron Mask

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.8
Volume 3 of The d'Artagnan Romances is divided into three parts. In this, the final part, d’Artagnan’s fortune is near its height; having be…

Dash for Khartoum

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
When a nursemaid mixes up her baby boy and the baby of the family she works for, the family decides to keep both. Years later, the nursemaid…

Dead Souls

by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души) by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of …

A Desert Drama

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by David Wales 4.4
Also published under the title The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898). A group of European tourists are enjoying their trip to Egypt in the year …

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil

by Anthony Trollope Read by Simon Evers 4.5
Harry Heathcote is an English ‘squatter’ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sist…

Chicot the Jester

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.3
This sequel to Dumas' “Marguerite de Valois” begins four years after the sudden death of King Charles IX and succession of his brother Henry…

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

by Henry Fielding Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foun…

Fraternity

by John Galsworthy Read by Simon Evers 4.2
A satire of middle-class complacency and artistic aspiration. It is the story of a strange bohemian upper-class love triangle, and of a myst…

Iola Leroy

by Frances E. W. Harper Read by James K. White 4.7
This is the story of Iola Leroy, a free-born, mixed-race woman who passed as white. Her true racial identity eventually discovered, she was …

Pimpernel and Rosemary

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by Holly 4.3
A novel in the Scarlet Pimpernel series that features Peter Blakeney, a descendant of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Peter's adventures take him to…

The Black Moth

by Georgette Heyer Read by Sibella Denton 4.5
The year is 1752. Devil, the Duke of Andover, and highwayman Jack, the Earl of Wyncham are at odds over a country squire's beautiful daughte…

The Fifth Queen

by Ford Madox Ford Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.3
The Fifth Queen invites listeners into the tumultuous world of Tudor England, where ambition and desire intertwine in the court of King Henr…

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