Historical Fiction

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…

Shadows in the Moonlight

by Robert E. Howard Read by Phil Chenevert 4.5
For a genuine Conan tale, full of barbarian craftiness, magic, fierce fighting and his berserker strength, this meets every criteria and is …

The Young Trailers

by Joseph A. Altsheler Read by A. E. Maroney 4.7
This is the story of Henry Ware, a young boy living in the wilds of the Kentucky frontier of the 1700's. The story follows Henry as he helps…

Deep Lake Mystery

by Carolyn Wells Read by Roger Melin 4.3
Imagine, if you will, a murder committed in a sealed room. A room which has been sealed from the inside, that is, with no possible means of …

The Prairie

by James Fenimore Cooper Read by William Peck 4.6
The story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen and Abiram slowly making their way across the virgin prairies of the Midwest looking for a h…

Works and Days

by Hesiod Read by Arthur Krolman 4.6
Works and Days provides advice on agrarian matters and personal conduct. The Theogony explains the ancestry of the gods. The Shield of Herac…

The Spirit of the Border

by Zane Grey Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) 4.6
This is an early novel by the phenomenally successful author of frontier, western and sports stories. It deals with historical characters an…

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…

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens Read by Peter John Keeble 4.9
Bleak house is one of Dickens finest achievements. It was written for serialisation in 1853 when Dickens was at the peak of his career. Mont…

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…

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…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by MaryAnn 4.8
I am inclined to rank Count Tolstoy not among the realists or naturalists, but rather as an impressionist. He is often careless about accur…

Heart of the Ronin

by Travis Heermann Read by Travis Heermann 4.6
Thirteenth-century Japan is a dangerous place, even in a time of peace. Capricious gods, shape-changing animals, and bloodthirsty demons ar…

A Little Country Girl

by Susan Coolidge Read by Lynne T 4.6
Candace makes the first long trip of her young life alone. Everything is new, from the ocean views, to the fashionable people she encounters…

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Read by Expatriate 4.8
Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the mo…

The Cross Brand

by Max Brand Read by David Wales 4.5
Jack Bristol shot the sheriff and stole his horse. He rode off, not into the sunset, but into the mountains. The mountain man held him cap…

Miss Maitland, Private Secretary

by Geraldine Bonner Read by Holly Jenson 4.4
Semi-retired sleuth Molly Morgenthau Babbitts goes undercover as a governess to investigate a robbery at the aristocratic Janney mansion on …

Ride Proud, Rebel!

by Andre Norton Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
Drew Rennie, served as a cavalry scout in Confederate general John Hunt Morgan's command. He had left home in 1862 after a final break with …

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe Read by John Greenman 4.8
Among the most “banned” books in the United States, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beeche…

In the Midst of Life

by Ambrose Bierce Read by David Wales 4.6
These stories detail the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. This is the 1909 edition. The 1909 edition omits six…

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