Historical Fiction

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens Read by Hamlet 4.8
A small group of people become embroiled in the tumultuous events of the French Revolution. - Summary by Brad Filippone

Lady Connie

by Mary Augusta Ward Read by Simon Evers 3.9
Constance Bledlow is a beautiful monied 20 year old with the world at her feet. She arrives in Oxford to spend a few months with her impover…

The World's Story

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
This is the sixth 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…

The Roaring Girl

by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Roaring Girl is a rip-roaring Jacobean comedy co-written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker and first published in 1611. The play is …

The Landleaguers

by Anthony Trollope Read by Angel5 4.2
Near Galway, young Florian Jones has just converted to Catholicism when he witnesses the deliberate destruction of his English father’s land…

The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

by Henry Fielding Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) 4.7
This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph A…

Arson Plus

by Dashiell Hammett 4.4
A rural case of arson brings in the insurance companies -- and they bring in the Continental Op. Dashiell Hammett's first Continental Op sto…

The Midnight Queen

by May Agnes Fleming Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
May Agnes Fleming is renowned as Canada's first best-selling novelist. She wrote 42 novels, many of which have only been published posthumou…

Doom Castle

by Neil Munro Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Doom Castle is the story of young Count Victor's journey to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion, searching for a traitor to the Jacobite c…

Hypatia

by Charles Kingsley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Charles Kingsley (June 12 1819 - January 23 1875) was an English divine, university professor, historian, and novelist, particularly associa…

Weaver's Web

by Philippa Ballantine Read by Philippa Ballantine 4.4
Betrayal by one you love is the cruelest cut of all. And when the Lord of Crisfell betrays it is done on a grand scale. Ashi'mei Candre fee…

DarkAge

by Kirk Warrington Read by Kirk Warrington 3.7
DarkAge is a mature, fantasy fiction, podcast novel where Sword and Sorcery meets Medieval Fantasy. A group of friends playing a fantasy r…

North and South

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
North and South is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, …

The Favor of Kings

by Mary Hastings Bradley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
"Never have bright romance and black scandal been more attached to the name of lovely woman," writes a quaint and susceptible chro…

The Island of Sheep

by John Buchan 4.1
This is the last of Buchan’s ‘Richard Hannay’ novels. It’s cast of Characters, in addition to Hannay himself, includes from earlier novels, …

The Candle Star

by Michelle Isenhoff Read by Michelle Isenhoff 4.9
Detroit, 1858. After a tantrum, Emily Preston is shipped from her plantation home to her inn-keeping Uncle in Detroit.There Emily meets Mala…

Tempest and Sunshine

by Mary Jane Holmes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
Tempest and Sunshine is the first book written by Mary Jane Holmes. Set in the pre-Civil War south, it follows the struggles and romances of…

Ramona

by Helen Hunt Jackson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Ramona, a novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson (1884), is the story of a part-Scottish and part-Native American orphan girl growing up and ge…

The Mark of a Druid

by Rhonda R. Carpenter Read by Rhonda R. Carpenter 4.5
When twenty-six-year-old Eve McCormick awakes, the images from her nightmare are indelible. The dream feels so real she must force herself t…

The Death of Society

by Florence Roma Muir Wilson Read by Expatriate 4.6
A weary survivor of the Great War, Major Rane Smith wanders in a great ennui amidst the mystical beauties of the fjords of Norway after the …

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