Historical Fiction

A Mating in the Wilds

by Ottwell Binns Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.6
An adventure tale set in the North Woods. Stane, a former convict in England, has established a lonely life as a trapper in the north woods.…

A Laodicean

by Thomas Hardy Read by Simon Evers 4.5
The Laodicean (someone whose religious beliefs are “lukewarm”) of the title is Paula Power who bought the ancient castle De Stancy which she…

The Lancashire Witches

by William Harrison Ainsworth Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017) 4.8
The Lancashire Witches is a highly fictionalised account of the activities of the notorious witches Demdike, Chattox and Alice Nutter who, t…

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,…

The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.2
It is the noon hour at a museum in New York City. The date: May 23, 1913. The weekday, attendance is light; the attendees are scattered betw…

The Guns of Bull Run

by Joseph A. Altsheler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The first volume in the Civil War series, following the adventures of Harry Kenton, who leaves his home in Kentucky. He travels through dang…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
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, firs…

The Marrow of Tradition

by Charles Waddell Chesnutt Read by James K. White 4.9
In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the ra…

The Seaboard Parish

by George MacDonald Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This is Second book of Three series. All the same characters from the first book, just with a few new friends and family members. The Pastor…

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by Adrian Wilson 4.7
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel d…

The Fur Country

by Jules Verne Read by Esther 4.5
In 1859, officers of the Hudson's Bay Company travel through the Northwest Territories of Canada on a mission to found a fort at 70 degrees,…

The Valley of the Moon

by Jack London Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.7
The novel Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-th…

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by Mark Nelson 4.7
Crime and Punishment is the second of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from 5 years of exile in Siberia, and is …

Pearl Maiden

by H. Rider Haggard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This is the story of Miriam, an orphan Christian woman living in Rome in the first century. She falls in love with a Roman officer, but know…

The Three Clerks

by Anthony Trollope Read by Anthony Ogus 4.5
Romance and crime in the mid-19th century British Civil Service. In this early novel,Trollope draws on his own experiences as a junior clerk…

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas Read by David Clarke 4.9
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo is an adventure novel and one of the author's most popular works. He completed the work in 1844. The story takes pl…

The Rainbow

by D. H. Lawrence Read by Tony Foster 4.3
Briefly appearing in 1915, then banned and taken out of circulation for its adult treatment of sexuality, Lawrence's visionary novel The Rai…

Dragon Ore

by Brian Rathbone Read by Brian Rathbone 4.7
A World of Godsland novel. Clinging to life, Catrin Volker struggles to regain her strength as her foes go in search of even greater power. …

The Opal Serpent

by Fergus Hume Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.5
An old pawnbroker is found strangled with his lips pinned together with an opal serpent broach. He has a beautiful daughter who is apparentl…

In the Reign of Terror

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Like all Henty books, this one centers around a young English lad whose courtesy and courage win the day. Harry Sandwith travels to France t…

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