Historical Fiction

The Landleaguers

by Anthony Trollope Read by Angel5 4.2
Near Galway, young Florian Jones has just converted to Catholicism when he witnesses the deliberate destruction of his English father’s land…

The Manchester Man

by Isabella Varley Banks Read by Phil Benson 4.5
Jabez Clegg, the Manchester man, floats into this historical novel in 1799, carried downstream by the River Irk in flood. Jabez's rise to co…

Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf

by George W. M. Reynolds Read by clarinetcarrot 4.4
Wagner is a poor, lonely old shepherd living on the edge of the Black Forest. In a devil's pact he gains youth and wealth for the price of t…

12.21.12

by Killian McRae Read by Killian McRae 4.4
The only way to save the future is to decode the past. The only way to decode the past is to save the future. Archaeologist Sheppard Smyth h…

The Roots of the Mountains

by William Morris Read by Phil Benson 4.9
The Roots of the Mountains was the second in a projected series of three historical novels set in a pre-medieval Germanic world (the third w…

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial.Like most of Dickens' work, the book is used to ca…

The World's Story

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This is the second 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…

A Man of Honor

by George Cary Eggleston Read by Roger Melin 4.5
New Yorker Robert Pagebrook travels to Virginia to visit relatives. The Civil War has ended and family ties are in order to be re-establishe…

Sir Thomas More

by Anthony Munday Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Sir Thomas More is a collaborative Elizabethan play by Anthony Munday and others depicting the life and death of Thomas More. It survives on…

The World's Story

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This is the first 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…

Weaver's Web

by Philippa Ballantine Read by Philippa Ballantine 4.4
Betrayal by one you love is the cruelest cut of all. And when the Lord of Crisfell betrays it is done on a grand scale. Ashi'mei Candre fee…

Arson Plus

by Dashiell Hammett 4.4
A rural case of arson brings in the insurance companies -- and they bring in the Continental Op. Dashiell Hammett's first Continental Op sto…

Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreord…

DarkAge

by Kirk Warrington Read by Kirk Warrington 3.7
DarkAge is a mature, fantasy fiction, podcast novel where Sword and Sorcery meets Medieval Fantasy. A group of friends playing a fantasy r…

Taking the Bastile

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Pitou lost his mother when he was small. He was raised by a stern aunt who did not really love him. He starts knowing the world by going to …

The Canadians of Old

by Philippe Aubert De Gaspé Read by Bruce Pirie 4.7
In his mid-70s, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé took on the project of recording the culture and heritage of French Canada, especially that …

The Antiquary

by Andrew Lang Read by skoval 4.3
Illegitimacy, false identity, and bankruptcy are the major elements of Sir Walter Scott's 1816 novel, The Antiquary. Set in the period of th…

The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald

by Anonymous Read by Phil Schempf 4.4
A tale from Iceland, 800 years ago.In a dream of quarrels and deathThe birth of fair Helga is toldCross the north seas ventured for fameAt t…

Delia Blanchflower

by Mary Augusta Ward Read by Simon Evers 4
Delia Blanchflower’s father has died, leaving her a considerable inheritance. However, she has become caught up in the militant wing of the …

The Pharaoh and the Priest

by Bolesław Prus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
The Pharaoh and the Priest (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was the sole historica…

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