Historical Fiction
La Constantin
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
Dumas chronicles the court intrigues that led to the execution of Marie La Roux Constantin. La dame Constantin was known by French nobility …
Australia Felix
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Henry Handel Richardson
The story of Richard Mahony, a doctor trained in Edinburgh who comes to Ballarat in the gold rush of the 1850s. At first he runs a shop but …
The Roots of the Mountains
Read by Phil Benson
William Morris
The Roots of the Mountains was the second in a projected series of three historical novels set in a pre-medieval Germanic world (the third w…
Delia Blanchflower
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
Delia Blanchflower’s father has died, leaving her a considerable inheritance. However, she has become caught up in the militant wing of the …
Roses of Winter
Read by Murdo Morrison
Murdo Morrison
They had been through one World War and a Great Depression. Now they faced another global conflict. Share the adventures of the Burns and Mc…
Watch and Wait
Read by Scarlett Martin
William Taylor Adams and Oliver Optic
One soft summer evening, when Woodville was crowned with the glory and beauty of the joyous season, three strangers presented themselves bef…
Celebrated Crimes
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
Martin Guerre was a French peasant that, during a long absence, was famously impersonated in the 16th century. Although the real Martin Guer…
Marietta
Read by Michele Fry
Francis Marion Crawford
This swash-buckling, romantic story of Zorzi Ballarin and Angelo Beroviero, master glass-blowers of Murano, Italy in the 1500's, is not enti…
St. George and St. Michael
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George MacDonald
’St. George and St. Michael’ is a little-known historical romance telling the story of a young couple who find themselves on opposing sides …
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James McGlothlin
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…
Soldiers' Pay
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William Faulkner
Soldiers return from the War to a mixed reception in America. The first novel by one of the 20th century's most poetic writers experimentin…
The Tale of Triona
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Olivia is a newly orphaned young woman looking for adventure and excitement. She rents out her house to Blaise Olifant whose friend Alexis T…
The Pharaoh and the Priest
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Bolesław Prus
The Pharaoh and the Priest (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was the sole historica…
The Golem
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Rudolf Lothar
Rabbi Loeb creates a clay man to house a perfect soul that he hopes will not be blighted by human prejudices. The plan does not go as he hop…
Saxby
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Emma Leslie
Set in the 17th Century, this book tells of the backdrop to the settlement of New England in the American Colonies: the struggles of the Chu…
Don Sebastian; or, The House of the Braganza
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Anna Maria Porter
Now living peacefully with his young family as an anonymous exile, Don Sebastian has just received word that the queen of England will back …
Dorothy's Double
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G. A. Henty
In the last volume of this series, Captain Ned Hampton and his faithful friend Jacob travel to America to the gold fields of California in s…
Canadian Battlefields and Other Poems
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John Richardson Wilkinson
Canadian Battlefields And Other Poems is an important historical record of Canadian soldiers participating in wars prior to 1899. - Summar…
The Poems and Some Satires of Andrew Marvell
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Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell is a man of many faces, in both poetry and politics. A master of the pastoral dialogue, he can equally well fire out a Juvena…
Piping Hot
Read by Mark Leder
Émile Zola
Covering a two-year period, Zola recounts the lives, intrigues, quarrel and loves of a group of five families all living in what was at the …