Historical Fiction

Last Days of Pompeii

by Edward Bulwer-Lytton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culmi…

King Henry IV

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
King Henry IV, Part 1 is the second of Shakespeare’s eight Wars of the Roses history plays, with events following those of King Richard II. …

The Return of the Mucker

by Edgar Rice Burroughs Read by Joseph DeNoia 4.3
After being framed for a murder he didn’t commit, law enforcement arrests Billy Byrne…The Mucker… as he returns to the streets of Grand Aven…

Healer

by J. K. Swift Read by Brad Wills 3.9
Why would anyone try to kill a healer? Deenah's quiet life as an apprentice healer in the remote village of Brae's Creek is shattered when …

An Outcast Of The Islands

by Joseph Conrad Read by Tom Weiss 3.9
An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the…

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy Read by Alisson Veldhuis 4.7
Tess of the d'Urbervilles subtitled, "A Pure Woman," is the story of a young working woman named Tess Durbeyfield who is sent by h…

Dead Souls

by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души) by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of …

The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Ru…

With Frederick The Great

by G. A. Henty Read by Gary Olman 4.1
Among the great wars of history there are few, if any, instances of so long and successfully sustained a struggle, against enormous odds, as…

Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table

by Andrew Lang Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history o…

The Evil Genius

by Wilkie Collins Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Evil Genius, one of Wilkie Collins' last works, is subtitled "A Domestic Scene". It is the intriguing tale of family Linley, i…

Moving the Mountain

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Read by Elizabeth Klett 4
Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodica…

Conjuror's House

by Stewart Edward White Read by Roger Melin 4
In the northern outreaches of the Canadian wilderness, it was understood that the Hudson Bay Company governed all trading, and one factor na…

The Story of the Romans

by H. A. Guerber Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
The Story of the Romans by H. A. Guerber invites young listeners to explore the rich tapestry of Roman history through engaging narratives. …

The Stowmarket Mystery

by Louis Tracy Read by Crln Yldz Ksr 3.6
Another case for Reginald Brett, barrister and hobby detective: David Hume-Frazer is in some trouble. He was the prime suspect in the murder…

Louise de la Valliere

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Set against the backdrop of 17th-century France, Louise de la Vallière continues the saga of the legendary Musketeers, weaving a tale…

The Saga of Erik the Red

by Unknowntranslated Byarthur Middleton Reeves, Translated Byarthur Middleton Reeves and Unknowntranslated By Arthur Middleton Reeves Read by Expatriate 4.3
The Saga of Erik the Red is one of the two important thirteenth-century accounts of the Norse explorations of Greenland and North America, a…

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Jane Eyre is a profound exploration of a young woman's journey toward self-discovery and independence. Set in 19th-century England, the nove…

Night's Knights

by Emerian Rich Read by Emerian Rich 3.8
Severina is an exotic beauty from the jungles of Brazil whose family is brutally murdered by the same man she later calls lover. Markham is…

Three Soldiers

by John Dos Passos Read by mb 4.3
Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First Worl…

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