Historical Fiction

Septimus

Read by Simon Evers


William John Locke


The book concerns the tangled lives of four people: Zora, a young widow who seeks some purpose in her life; Septimus Dix, an other-wordly bu…

The Reign of King Edward the Third

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William Shakespeare


The Reign of King Edward the Third is an Elizabethan play printed anonymously in 1596. It has frequently been claimed that it was at least p…

The Leopard's Spots

Read by Michele Fry


Thomas Dixon, Jr.


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…

The Home and the World

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Rabindranath Tagore


Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo religionist, visual artist, playwright, nov…

The Fortune of the Rougons

Read by Peter Tucker


Émile Zola


The Fortune of the Rougons (French: La Fortune des Rougon), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monument…

A Tale of Two Cities (Version 5)

Read by Richard Reiman


Charles Dickens


Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities is a novel that views the eighteenth century French Revolution through the lens of nineteenth century…

Selected Uncle Abner Mysteries

Read by Winston Tharp


Melville Davisson Post


Fourteen mysteries from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, the Metropolitan, Red Book, and Pictorial Review magazines featuring Uncle A…

Eyes Like the Sea

Read by MaryAnn


Mór Jókai


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…

The Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine

Read by James E. Carson


William Carleton


A story about the Irish, just before the onset of the famine of 1847, with all the color and dialogue of a man who lived it. (Summary by JCa…

The Queen's Necklace

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


Alexandre Dumas


The Queen's Necklace is historical fiction based on an actual scandal in the court of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI during 1784-85, "T…

Mark the Match Boy or Richard Hunter's Ward

Read by Tori Faulder


Horatio Alger, Jr.


In this third installment from the “Ragged Dick” series by Horatio Algers, Jr., the reader is reacquainted with some old friends and meets y…

Montes de Oca

Read by Tux


Benito Pérez Galdós


Manuel Montes de Oca (Medina-Sidonia, 1804 – Vitoria, 20 de octubre de 1841) fue un marino y ministro de Marina, Comercio y Ultramar durante…

Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


This satire on the U.S.A.'s myth of being the "Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal", is unrelenting in its pur…

Germinal (English )

Read by VfkaBT


Émile Zola


This epic about French coal miners and the burgeoning labor movement is considered one of Zola's finest novels. - Summary by Matt Pierard

War and Peace, Volume 1 (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…

Salammbô

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Gustave Flaubert


After completing the famous Mme Bovary, Flaubert put all his efforts into researching the Punic Wars and completed the lesser known Salammb&…

Helen

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Maria Edgeworth


Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children…

El Equipaje del Rey José

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Benito Pérez Galdós


El equipaje del rey José (1875) es la primera novela de la segunda serie de los Episodios nacionales de Benito Pérez Gald&oacu…

The House by the Churchyard

Read by John


Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


Murder, mystery, mayhem, romance and relationships. Our classic who-done-it takes place in olde Dublin, Ireland in the village of Chapelizod…

The Little Colonel

Read by Maria Therese


Annie Fellows Johnston


The scene of this story is laid in Kentucky. Its heroine is a small girl, who is known as the Little Colonel, on account of her fancied rese…

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