Historical Fiction

Uncle Bernac

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Cate Barratt 4.5
Looking for a replacement to Sherlock Holmes after the author had killed him off in 1894, Doyle wrote this murder mystery in the dying years…

What's Mine's Mine

by George MacDonald Read by Hannah Mary 4.8
Set in the invigorating wilds of Scotland, clans are crumbling and emigrating as their homeland is bought out from under them. The character…

The Mystery Girl

by Carolyn Wells Read by Roger Melin 4.4
Was it murder or suicide? All entrances to the study where the body was found were locked from the inside. The future college president an…

The Ghost Girl

by Henry Kitchell Webster Read by Kate Follis 4.6
Henry Kitchell Webster is an American author best know for his detective novels. The Ghost Girl opens with a murder mystery. A young woman's…

The Golden Calf

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by Tara Dow 4.6
A late 19th Century sensation novel following the young life of Ida Palliser as she searches for fortune and love within England's Gentry Cl…

Little Lord Fauntleroy

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This story is about an American lad of 7 years old who lives with his young widowed mother in New York. He spends his days with his friend t…

The Wheat Princess

by Jean Webster Read by Celine Major 4.7
Marcia Copley, an American Heiress, comes to Rome. Typically for the period, she may want to attract an aristocrat. He brings the title, she…

The Efficiency Expert

by Edgar Rice Burroughs Read by Delmar H Dolbier 4.7
Our hero, Jimmy Torrance, Jr., has a hard time finding suitable employment after a brilliant (athletically, at least) college career, despit…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

A Poor Wise Man

by Mary Roberts Rinehart Read by Celine Major 4.4
Mary Roberts Rinehart offers a superb blend of romance and suspense amidst political tensions in this story set in early 20th Century Americ…

The Children of the New Forest

by Frederick Marryat Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The children of Colonel Beverley, a Cavalier officer killed at the Battle of Naseby are believed to have died in the flames when their house…

The Pearl of Orr's Island

by Harriet Beecher Stowe Read by Bridget Gaige 4.5
Go on a journey to the coast of Maine and immerse yourself in the picturesque community on Orr’s Island. See the raindrops glistening on the…

The Marriage of William Ashe

by Mary Augusta Ward Read by Simon Evers 4.6
William Ashe, an up and coming politician, impulsively marries Kitty, a young, flighty and strange girl who, far from supporting her husband…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

Marie

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Peter John Keeble 4.8
This is a superb sweeping romantic adventure story of how Alan Quatermain, hero of fourteen of Rider H Haggard's books, met, fell in love wi…

The Rain-Girl

by Herbert George Jenkins Read by Anna Simon 4.5
Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he…

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by Cori Samuel 4.6
This book tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman who conceives a child while her husband is missing at sea. The Puritan Elders of …

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce Read by Tadhg 4.8
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce’s semi-autobiographical first novel. It traces the early life of Stephen Dedalus and his in…

Agnes Grey

by Anne Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn money to care for herself, she takes one o…

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