Historical Fiction

Kenilworth

by Sir Walter Scott Read by skoval 4.5
An Elizabethan era historical novel by Scotland's master of fiction, Sir Walter Scott. With a cast of historical and created characters, inc…

A Horse's Tale

by Mark Twain Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012) 4.5
Soldier Boy is the top steed at Fort Paxton. He is Buffalo Bill’s favorite horse and has led a life of glory and honor. One day General Alis…

The Burning Secret

by Stefan Zweig Read by Lee Smalley 4.7
A lonely, convalescing 12 year-old boy and his attractive mother, who is in a loveless marriage, meet a gentleman while vacationing at a Eur…

Castle Rackrent

by Maria Edgeworth Read by Noel Badrian 4.1
"One of the most inspired chronicles written in English" was the verdict of William Butler Yeats on the novel Castle Rackrent by M…

A Group of Noble Dames

by Thomas Hardy Read by Libby Gohn 4.4
The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of…

For the Term of His Natural Life

by Marcus Clarke Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
For the Term of his Natural Life, written by Marcus Clarke, was published in the Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872 (as His Natural Li…

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, …

The Pioneers

by Katharine S. Prichard Read by Kirsty Leishman 4.6
The Pioneers is set against the background of pioneering life in the Gippsland region of Victoria in pre-Federation Australia. Mary and Dona…

Invito Rex

by Brand Gamblin Read by Brand Gamblin 4.6
In a fantastic world not too far ahead of us, Victorian sensibilities have brought back the monarchy, with a caste system that is lethally e…

Richard of Jamestown

by James Otis Read by Laura Caldwell 4.6
Richard of Jamestown invites young listeners to step back in time to the early days of American colonization through the eyes of a spirited …

The Pilot

by James Fenimore Cooper Read by Jim Locke 4.2
The work, which was admired by Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad for its authentic portrayal of a seafaring life and takes place during the …

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens Read by Bob Neufeld 4.7
A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 mill…

When God Laughs

by Jack London Read by Don W. Jenkins 4.2
This collection of Jack London's short stories touches on a variety of topics, from his love of boxing, to relationships between criminals, …

The Saga of the Greenlanders

by Unknown Read by Expatriate 4.5
The Saga of the Greenlanders is one of the two important thirteenth-century accounts of the Norse explorations of Greenland and North Americ…

The Sword of Antietam

by Joseph A. Altsheler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Sword of Antietam immerses listeners in the tumultuous landscape of the American Civil War, following the journey of young Northern hero…

St. George and St. Michael

by George MacDonald Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
’St. George and St. Michael’ is a little-known historical romance telling the story of a young couple who find themselves on opposing sides …

The Hidden Institute

by Brand Gamblin Read by Brand Gamblin 4.6
Rising above your station can be deadly. Cliffy is a child born on the streets of a Neo-Victorian world. Witnesses to a murder, he blackmai…

The Virginians

by William Makepeace Thackeray Read by Nick Bulka 4.5
It tells the story of Henry Esmond's twin grandsons, George and Henry Warrington. Henry's romantic entanglements with an older woman lead up…

Eyes Like the Sea

by Mór Jókai Read by MaryAnn 4.4
He was a painter, a poet, a novelist. He lived during the Hungarian revolution and his love of freedom meant his life was often in peril. Sh…

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