Historical Fiction
The Chicago Connection
Read by John R. Swift
John R. Swift
A teenager in Prohibition Chicago, haunted by disasters, breaks all his childhood vows of clean living and becomes a minor hoodlum. When he …
The Gods are Athirst
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Anatole France
The Gods Are Athirst (French: Les dieux ont soif, also translated as The Gods Are Thirsty or The Gods Will Have Blood) is a 1912 novel by An…
Marius the Epicurean, Volume 2
Read by DrPGould
Walter Pater
The conclusion of Pater's historico-philosophical novel about a young Roman nobleman's search for purpose and meaning. Set in the time of Ca…
The Stone Chest
Read by Laurie Banza
G. A. Henty
When the ship, Bluebell, went down, Captain Cromwell and Ruel Gross escaped on a raft, and after several days of suffering, finall…
The Conquest
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Oscar Micheaux
"This is the true story of a negro who was discontented and the circumstances that were the outcome of that discontent." While co…
Marry Me! Inc.
Read by RMdeChazal
RMdeChazal
Marry Me! Inc. is the story of women and men who in 1898 were, in various ways – romantically, entrepreneurially, innocently, nefariously – …
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Read by Deon Gines
Sir Walter Scott
An historical novel set in Scotland in 1736, involving a riot and surrounding drama. - Summary by Deon Gines
A Farewell to Arms (Version 2)
Read by Mark Nelson
Ernest Hemingway
Frederic Henry is an American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army during World War I, who after being severely wounded and ho…
The Spell of the Yukon
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Robert W. Service
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Spell of the Yukon by Robert W. Service. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Dece…
The Gray Mills of Farley
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Sarah Orne Jewett
As contemporary today as it was over a century ago, this relatively unsentimental tale of labor relations still packs a punch. (Summary by B…
Post Haste
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R. M. Ballantyne
In this book, Ballantyne weaves the story of Phillip Mayland and his friend, George Aspel with an interesting portrayal of the British Post …
The Spanish Brothers
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Deborah Alcock
The daughter of a minister, Deborah Alcock wrote novels on a Christian theme. The Spanish Brothers is set in the sixteenth century and deals…
Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 4: Taking the Bastile
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
This 4th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins several years after the close of "The Queen’s Necklace.” It describes the event…
Consider The Elephant
Read by Aram Schefrin
Aram Schefrin
The common wisdom is that the men who have attacked American Presidents - Czolgosz, Guiteau, Fromme, Hinckley, Moore, Oswald, Zangara - were…
MONARCH: the Big Bear of Tallac
Read by Ernest Thompson Seton
Ernest Thompson Seton
Ernest Thompson Seton's book, "Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac." Published in 1919, it tells the story of a tiny Grizzly cub who g…
The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw
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Frances Milton Trollope
The novel begins with the arrival of a family staking a claim in the black delta of the Deep South. Whitlaw is a brutish sort who bullies hi…
Jess
Read by Jim Locke
H. Rider Haggard
The setting for this novel is the Boer War in South Africa in 1880. This novel is interesting and exciting on several levels: there are com…
History and Fiction
Read by Roy Schreiber
Roy Schreiber
Why don't writers who fictionalize history just write fiction? Why did Shakespeare call his character Richard III or King John? Why not ca…
Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport
Read by Jim Locke
Lawrence Perry
Newport, of course, means aristocratic families and naval adventures. In this tale, we wonder if the heiress will actually marry the Russian…
The Pirate
Read by Deon Gines
Sir Walter Scott
The Pirate is set in the island of Shetland in the late 1600s, and is a historical novel based on the life of John Gow, Captain Cleveland in…