Historical Fiction

The Vicomte De Bragelonne

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
In the final installment of Alexandre Dumas' celebrated Musketeer saga, The Vicomte de Bragelonne picks up the story of Athos, Porthos, Aram…

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald 4.5
Language: EnglishThe Great Gatsby follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the sum…

The Golden Web

by E. Phillips Oppenheim Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
Stirling Deane has sold the Little Anna Gold Mine which he discovered in South Africa. The sale has made him a rich man and the head of the …

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens Read by Bob Neufeld 4.7
A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 mill…

Felix Holt, The Radical

by George Eliot Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is …

In Freedom's Cause

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
In Freedom's Cause transports listeners to the tumultuous era of the Scottish Wars of Independence, where the legendary figures of Robert Br…

A Daughter of the Land

by Gene Stratton-Porter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A Daughter of the Land follows Kate Bates, one of sixteen children, as she takes the wings of morning to try for independence and the life s…

Stories by English Authors

by F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill Read by Kirsten Wever 4.6
This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …

The World's Story

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is the fourth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March T…

The Saga of the Greenlanders

by Unknown Read by Expatriate 4.5
The Saga of the Greenlanders is one of the two important thirteenth-century accounts of the Norse explorations of Greenland and North Americ…

Old Christmas

by Washington Irving Read by Greg Giordano 4.8
Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with…

The Burning Secret

by Stefan Zweig Read by Lee Smalley 4.7
A lonely, convalescing 12 year-old boy and his attractive mother, who is in a loveless marriage, meet a gentleman while vacationing at a Eur…

His Masterpiece

by Émile Zola Read by Lisa Reichert 4.5
“His Masterpiece" (“L’Oeuvre”) is a fictionalized account of the Parisian art world in the mid 19th century, and the emerging Realism, …

The Queen's Necklace

by Alexandre Dumas Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan 4.3
The Queen's Necklace is historical fiction based on an actual scandal in the court of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI during 1784-85, "T…

The World's Story

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
This is the third volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…

Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.6
This satire on the U.S.A.'s myth of being the "Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal", is unrelenting in its pur…

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of a woman plagued by scandal whose presenc…

Callista

by John Henry Newman Read by Carol Pelster 4.8
Callista, A Tale of the Third Century, was written by John Henry Newman, who was a scholarly and personable Anglican theologian who became a…

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, based on true events, concerns the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, his assassination i…

Eric Brighteyes

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Brett W. Downey 4.4
The Saga of Eric Brighteyes is the title of an epic viking novel by H. Rider Haggard, and concerns the adventures of its eponymous principal…

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