Historical Fiction
War and Peace, Volume 4 (Maude Translation)
Read by Mark Nelson
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy’s epic historical novel chronicling the Napoleonic war in Russia. Considered one of the greatest works of literature of all time…
The Traitor
Read by Michele Fry
Thomas Dixon, Jr.
Dixon lived through Reconstruction, and believed it ranked with the French Revolution in brutality and criminal acts. The Traitor (1907), th…
Catherine De' Medici
Read by Edmund Bloxam
Honoré de Balzac
The Philosophical Studies from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine) are a series of works that are intended as a reflection on history in p…
Die Schlacht bei Stellau 1201
Read by Dirk Weber
Detlev Von Liliencron
Kurzes Historien Drama um die Schlacht bei Stellau 1201 zwischen Dänen und Holsteinern. Den roten Faden bittet die Liebe zu einer Sklav…
Imaginary Conversations (Dramatic Reading)
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Walter Savage Landor
This is a group of Imaginary Conversations by Walter Savage Landor. It is a series of dialogues of historical and mythical characters. Marce…
Ollanta - Drama Quichua en Tres Actos y en Verso
Read by KendalRigans
Unknown
Ollantay u Ollántay es un drama escrito originalmente en quechua colonial, considerado por unos como de origen incaico —y como tal la…
Of Such Is The Kingdom, A Novel of Biblical Times
Read by James M. Becher
James M. Becher
Step back into New Testament times--to Ancient Jerusalem at the time of Christ and of the historical Roman Empire, and ask: What could a cyn…
Hamilton
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George Arliss and Mary P Hamlin
One hundred years before the current hit musical Hamilton, Mary Hamlin wrote this historical play for Broadway with a big actor of the day, …
恩讐の彼方に (Onsyuu no Kanata ni)
Read by ekzemplaro
Kan Kikuchi
A samurai story of revenge. Ichikurou killed his master. He got away from Edo (Tokyo) with his lover. They became burglars. Then he became a…
The Pioneers
Read by Kirsty Leishman
Katharine S. Prichard
The Pioneers is set against the background of pioneering life in the Gippsland region of Victoria in pre-Federation Australia. Mary and Dona…
The Deluge Volume 1
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a th…
The Landleaguers
Read by Angel5
Anthony Trollope
Near Galway, young Florian Jones has just converted to Catholicism when he witnesses the deliberate destruction of his English father’s land…
The Mountebank
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Andrew Lackaday, an English orphan, was born and brought up in a French circus. He becomes a highly skilled mimic and juggler. He plies his …
When Knighthood Was in Flower
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Charles Major
Set during the Tudor period of English history, When Knighthood Was in Flower tells the tribulations of Mary Tudor, a younger sister of Henr…
The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt
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Théophile Gautier
The account he gives, in his novel, of the ancient city of Thebes, of the great necropolis in the valley of Biban el Molûk, of the sub…
Cleopatra
Read by Jim Locke
Georg Ebers
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…
Glorious
Read by Aram Schefrin
Aram Schefrin
On June 25th, 1876, General George Custer died at the Little Big Horn. Why did Custer rush into battle against the largest agglomeration of …
Børnene i Nyskoven
Read by Lulularsen
Frederick Marryat
Handlingen foregår i 1600-tallet under den Engelske borgerkrig. Fire forældreløse adelsbørn må flygte fra de…