Historical Fiction

The Children of the New Forest

by Frederick Marryat Read by Nick Whitley 4.6
The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is set in the time of the English Civil War …

The Pathfinder

by James Fenimore Cooper Read by Mark F. Smith 4.6
Natty Bumppo goes by many names: La Longue Carabine, Hawk Eye, Leatherstocking, and in this tale, The Pathfinder. Guide, scout, hunter, and …

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.7
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court transports readers from 19th-century America to the legendary realm of Camelot, where the clash …

The Dragon and the Raven

by G. A. Henty Read by Mike Harris 4.7
During the reign of King Alfred, Danish forces have invaded the English countryside. Although the English try to repulse these attacks, they…

The Shrieking Pit

by Arthur J. Rees Read by Kevin Green 4.6
The Shrieking Pit is one of Arthur Rees's earlier works, and is a good old fashioned murder mystery story. Grant Colwyn, a private detective…

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfol…

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray Read by Helen Taylor 4.8
One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mo…

The Mystery of the Hidden Room

by Christopher Harvey and Marion Harvey Read by Roger Melin 4.5
A classic mystery/detective story in the Sherlock Holmes tradition, the hidden room suggested by the title of this book does not remain a my…

The Mystery Girl

by Carolyn Wells Read by Roger Melin 4.4
Was it murder or suicide? All entrances to the study where the body was found were locked from the inside. The future college president an…

A Journal of the Plague Year

by Daniel Defoe Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) 4.6
The novel is a fictionalized account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The boo…

The Call Of The Canyon

by Zane Grey Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.5
Glenn Kilbourne returns from the war and travels to Arizona to regain his health. There he is nursed back to health by an Arizona girl, Flo …

The Black Arrow

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Mark F. Smith 4.7
In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. …

The People of the Black Circle

by Robert E. Howard Read by Mark Nelson 4.6
"The People of the Black Circle" is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. H…

The Cat of Bubastes

by G. A. Henty Read by David Leeson 4.7
G.A. Henty’s “tale of ancient Egypt” tells the story of Amuba, prince of the Rebu, who is taken captive when his people are conquered by the…

The Custom of the Country

by Edith Wharton Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.6
Edith Wharton's 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional M…

Mr. Harrison's Confessions

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by NoelBadrian 4.6
It is asserted that the inspiration for Elizabeth Gaskell's marvellous stories of Cranford was her childhood home of Knutsford, a small tow…

Miss Frances Baird, Detective

by Reginald Wright Kauffman Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.4
Frances Baird is a detective with the Watkins Agency of New York City. She and a colleague are sent undercover to "The Maples" to…

The Rainbow Trail

by Zane Grey Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.6
The Rainbow Trail is a sequel to The Riders of the Purple Sage. Both novels are notable for their protagonists' mild opposition to Mormon po…

Scarhaven Keep

by J. S. Fletcher Read by Cate Barratt 4.5
Set against the rugged beauty of the northern English sea coast, Scarhaven Keep weaves a tale of mystery and intrigue. When a sudden disappe…

The Long, Long Trail

by Max Brand Read by David Wales 4.4
A willful flirtatious girl; a morose family; a dark, mysterious, and (to some) alluring man; lots of horses, guns, honor, love, courage, and…

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