Historical Fiction

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe Read by Larraine Paquette 4.7
This is a deeply moving novel centered around the lives of Uncle Tom and others and which very effectively portrays the suffering caused by …

Toothless

by J.P. Moore Read by J.P. Moore 4.4
J. P. Moore's 2009 podcast reinvented the zombie apocalypse, taking it where it had never gone before! Hailed as brutal, dark, and brilliant…

Chicot the Jester

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.3
This sequel to Dumas' “Marguerite de Valois” begins four years after the sudden death of King Charles IX and succession of his brother Henry…

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

by Giacomo Casanova Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This is the first of five volumes. - Giacomo Casanova (1725 in Venice – 1798 in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Vene…

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by Expatriate 4.7
"Crime and Punishment" is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal "T…

Ben Hur

by Lew Wallace Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
In this dramatic reading of the classic epic Ben Hur, rediscover the wonder of three wise men who travel through the wilderness together. Th…

The Terrible Business of Salmon & Dusk

by Myke Bartlett Read by Myke Bartlett 4.5
Theo Braithwaite, failed actress and worse waitress, is a stranger to London. In a single day, she loses her job, her boyfriend and quite po…

Eric Brighteyes

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Brett W. Downey 4.4
The Saga of Eric Brighteyes is the title of an epic viking novel by H. Rider Haggard, and concerns the adventures of its eponymous principal…

The Saga of the Greenlanders

by Unknowntranslated Byarthur Middleton Reeves, Translated Byarthur Middleton Reeves and Unknowntranslated By Arthur Middleton Reeves Read by Expatriate 4.4
The Saga of the Greenlanders is one of the two important thirteenth-century accounts of the Norse explorations of Greenland and North Americ…

Kenilworth

by Sir Walter Scott Read by skoval 4.6
An Elizabethan era historical novel by Scotland's master of fiction, Sir Walter Scott. With a cast of historical and created characters, inc…

The Adventures of Buffalo Bill

by William Frederick Cody Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Buffalo Bill was arguably, the most recognized man in the world when he penned this book. The first four stories are of some of his adventur…

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, based on true events, concerns the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, his assassination i…

The Black Arrow

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The Black Arrow tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of the Roses: how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sed…

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald 4.5
Language: EnglishThe Great Gatsby follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the sum…

Thorstein of the Mere

by William Gershom Collingwood Read by Phil Benson 4.6
A fine adventure set in 10th-century England at a time when everyday life in north was made hazardous by wars and shifting alliances among S…

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
The story tells of the inner turmoil of Rodion Raskolnikov, a student in St. Petersburg who commits murder. His psychological and moral agit…

The Scottish Chiefs

by Jane Porter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Scottish Chiefs is a historical adventure novel that brings to life the legendary figure of William Wallace, a Scottish hero who fought …

The Aeneid of Virgil

by Virgil Read by George Allen 4.5
The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy,…

Sister Simon's Murder Case

by Margaret Ann Hubbard Read by Maria Therese 4.2
Set in the picturesque wilds of a Midwestern resort town at the height of the tourist season, Sister Simon’s Murder case begins with the mur…

The Staircase at the Heart's Delight

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Crln Yldz Ksr 3.9
Detective Ebenezer Gryce tells the story of the case with which he begun his career in 1840. Several wealthy men were drowned and washed ash…

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