Historical Fiction
We Were There at the Normandy Invasion
Read by Wayne Cooke
Clayton Knight
D-Day: 6 June 1944. The date of the invasion of the Normandy Coast of France by the Allies. This novel gives a different look at that invasi…
The Young Visiters
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Daisy Ashford
The Young Visiters is a comic romance novella that parodies upper class society of late Victorian England. Social climber Alfred Salteena in…
Dulcibel
Read by Elaine Webb
Henry Peterson
Dulcibel is a young, pretty and kind-hearted fictional character charged with Witchcraft during the infamous Salem Witch trials. During this…
Antic Hay
Read by Jim Locke
Aldous Huxley
The epigram to this work from Christoher Marlowe applies to the plot of this story: "My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns / Shall wi…
A Set of Six
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
Each of the stories in this collection is spun from a simple, if typically wry and bleak, idea. In "Gaspar Ruiz", a South American…
Missing
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
It is 1915 and Nelly and Lieutenant George Sarratt have recently married. After a blissful but brief honeymoon in the Lake District, George …
Saxon and Norman
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Amice Macdonell
Edward the Confessor is very weak and will die soon. But with no son to succeed him, who will gain the throne? The common folk and loyal Sax…
Warriors of Old Japan, and Other Stories
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Yei Theodora Ozaki
This is a collection of stories featuring members of the Samurai - the warrior class of old Japan, rendered into English by Yei Theodora Oza…
The Northern Spy
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J. Thomas Warren
The Northern Spy, written in the 1800s, is a lively story about a Union soldier who infiltrates a Confederate battalion in order to aid in …
Regiment of Women
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Clemence Dane
Set in a small town in Edwardian England, Regiment of Women is about the relationship between two teachers at a private (and elitist) girls'…
The Indian Corn Planter
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E. Pauline Johnson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Indian Corn Planter by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 2…
The Boy Scouts in Front of Warsaw; Or, In the Wake of War
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George Durston
The boy scouts are at it again! The war in Warsaw, Poland was devastating and led to many broken families. When the beloved children of the …
The Lie (version 2)
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Sir Walter Raleigh
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of "The Lie" by Sir Walter Raleigh. This was the fortnightly poem for the period begin…
Colonel Greatheart
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H. C. Bailey
This is a story of the English Civil War where a witching woman conquerors hearts and marks.
The Chimney Corner
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Stowe wrote over 30 books. This one is a fascinating collection of her post Civil War musings on a variety of cultural topics, staged mostly…
De L'Orme
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George Payne Rainsford James
G.P.R. James was a historian and novelist, who took well-documented historical events and characters and wove stories around minor or imagin…
Muslin
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George Moore and George Logan Moore
Muslin, better known as A Drama In Muslin, is a realistic novel by George Moore. It describes the lives of five Irish girls after their grad…
Saint Joan: Preface
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George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th-century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her…
Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand
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Henry Cadwallader Adams
A young man travels to South Africa to find his Mother and sister. He wants to be a clergyman and a farmer when he arrives there. This story…
Uther and Igraine
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Warwick Deeping
This beautifully written book imagines the lives of Igraine and Uther Pendragon before the legend of Arthur began. (Summary by A. Gramour)