Historical Fiction

Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady

by Samuel Richardson Read by Nicole Lee 4.4
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady is a profound exploration of virtue and the struggles of a young woman in 18th-century Engl…

Callista

by John Henry Newman Read by Carol Pelster 4.8
Callista, A Tale of the Third Century, was written by John Henry Newman, who was a scholarly and personable Anglican theologian who became a…

The Favor of Kings

by Mary Hastings Bradley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
"Never have bright romance and black scandal been more attached to the name of lovely woman," writes a quaint and susceptible chro…

A Daughter of the Land

by Gene Stratton-Porter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A Daughter of the Land follows Kate Bates, one of sixteen children, as she takes the wings of morning to try for independence and the life s…

Three Soldiers

by John Dos Passos Read by mb 4.3
Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First Worl…

Roses of Winter

by Murdo Morrison Read by Murdo Morrison 4.8
They had been through one World War and a Great Depression. Now they faced another global conflict. Share the adventures of the Burns and Mc…

Lady Connie

by Mary Augusta Ward Read by Simon Evers 3.9
Constance Bledlow is a beautiful monied 20 year old with the world at her feet. She arrives in Oxford to spend a few months with her impover…

In the Service of Samurai

by Gloria Oliver Read by Gloria Oliver 4.6
The choice: Serve the undead or become one of them. Toshi never expected the strange visitor who one evening stepped foot insidehis master'…

The Cathedral

by Hugh Walpole Read by David Wales 4.5
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (1884 – 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the c…

The Caves of Fear

by Harold L. Goodwin Read by Bellona Times 3.9
In The Caves of Fear, Rick Brant and his friend Scotty embark on a perilous journey to the Himalayas, where they face the looming threat of …

Tom of the Raiders

by Austin Bishop and William Henry Bishop Read by Brett W. Downey 4.6
Tom of the Raiders follows the journey of a young man who enlists in the Union Army during the tumultuous days of the American Civil War. As…

Healer

by J. K. Swift Read by Brad Wills 3.9
Why would anyone try to kill a healer? Deenah's quiet life as an apprentice healer in the remote village of Brae's Creek is shattered when …

The World's Story

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
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…

The Key to the Riddle

by Margaret S. Comrie Read by Angela Engel 4.7
Young Azerole Montoux and her brother Leon find themselves separated from their family by the religious persecutions of 1686. Threatened by …

Father Goriot

by Honoré de Balzac Read by James E. Carson 4.2
One of Balzac's most popular works, set around 1815 during the re-ascendancy of the Bourbon kings following the defeat of Napoleon. Said to …

The Last Three Soldiers

by William Henry Shelton Read by David Wales 4.6
What if the Confederacy had won the American Civil War? It’s July 1864 and three oh-so-young Union troopers are assigned to a mountaintop in…

The Clansman

by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Read by Michele Fry 4.4
The second book in a trilogy of the Reconstruction era - The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907), this novel…

Codename Vengeance

by David Wright Read by David Wright 4.7
When an American pilot on loan to the RAF shoots down three British spitfires in his own squadron, and then crash-lands at a German airbase …

A Legend of Montrose

by Sir Walter Scott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
A Legend of Montrose is one of Sir Walter Scott's Tales of my Landlord. It is set in the tumultuous 17th century during the Earl of Montrose…

A Prisoner of Morro

by Upton Sinclair Read by Tom Weiss 4.3
Upton Sinclair, born in 1878 was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author. He wrote over 90 books in many genres. Best known for his muckrak…

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