Historical Fiction

The Black-Bearded Barbarian

by Mary Esther Miller Macgregor Read by Edmund Bloxam 4.5
The Black-Bearded Barbarian offers a vivid portrayal of George Mackay, a Presbyterian missionary whose life and work left a lasting impact o…

Hamilton

by George Arliss, Mary P Hamlin and Mary P. Hamlin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
One hundred years before the current hit musical Hamilton, Mary Hamlin wrote this historical play for Broadway with a big actor of the day, …

A Vital Question

by Nikolai Chernyshevsky Read by Expatriate 3.9
Despised by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, What Is To Be Done? is a fascinating, sympathetic story of idealistic revolutionaries in mid-nineteenth…

Cleopatra

by Georg Ebers Read by Jim Locke 4.4
The world knows the fate of the classic lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony, so there is no need to announce a spoiler alert. Georg Ebers was a…

Living With Capone

by John R. Swift Read by John R. Swift 4.7
A fortunate son and failed lawyer turned failed banker turned struggling stockbroker inexplicably marries well, crosses paths with Al Capone…

Raiding with Morgan

by Byron A. Dunn Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Raiding with Morgan transports listeners to the tumultuous days of the U.S. Civil War, focusing on the daring cavalry raids led by General J…

The Ballad of Iron Percy

by Edward Clark Read by Edward Clark 4.5
It has been twenty years since the island nation of Great Hale conquered the New World and became an empire. Lord Percival Wilmore, the Hero…

The Coming Wrath

by John K. Reed Read by John K. Reed 4.7
A world lost in time and history. The earth as it was before the world wide flood destroyed the face of the planet almost five thousand year…

The Fox

by Arlene Radasky Read by Arlene Radasky 4.7
Jahna and Lovern's clan lay in the Romans' path of destruction. The death of their people is a certainty, unless a bargain is made with the …

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens Read by Hamlet 4.8
A small group of people become embroiled in the tumultuous events of the French Revolution. - Summary by Brad Filippone

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838 (from just bef…

Anne of Geierstein

by Sir Walter Scott Read by Deon Gines 4.5
Anne of Geierstein, or The Maiden of the Mist (1829) is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. It is set in Central Europe, mainly in Switzerland, sho…

Glorious

by Aram Schefrin Read by Aram Schefrin 4.8
On June 25th, 1876, General George Custer died at the Little Big Horn. Why did Custer rush into battle against the largest agglomeration of …

Aristopia

by Castello Newton Holford Read by Ruth Golding 4.5
Aristopia (published 1895) is truly an alternative history. It is an imagination of how the continent of North America might have developed…

The Leopard's Spots

by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Read by Michele Fry 4.1
The first in a trilogy of the Reconstruction era - The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907), parts of this no…

Rob Roy

by Sir Walter Scott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
Rob Roy is a historical novel by Walter Scott. It is narrated by Frank Osbaldistone, the son of an English merchant who travels first to the…

Complete Original Short Stories

by Guy de Maupassant Read by Tatiana Chichilla 4.2
Guy de Maupassant was, and is to this day, one of the world's most celebrated short story writers. He famously tackled topics like the Franc…

Waverley

by Sir Walter Scott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or…

The Coffee Legacy

by Katharina Bordet Read by Katharina Bordet 4.4
An old cafe, an even older legend and a new threat. When Isabelle’s secret past returns to haunt her nightmares, she must take action to pro…

The Iron Box

by Unknown 4.5
Holmes and Watson are invited to Dunbar Castle just in time to witness the transfer of an inheritance, but complications arise because the h…

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