Historical Fiction

Hamilton

by George Arliss, Mary P Hamlin and Mary P. Hamlin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
One hundred years before the current hit musical Hamilton, Mary Hamlin wrote this historical play for Broadway with a big actor of the day, …

Darnley

by George Payne Rainsford James Read by Lynne T 4.3
A stranger rides across the Kentish countryside when his attention is called to a cottage where violence is being done to an elderly couple.…

The Coffee Legacy

by Katharina Bordet Read by Katharina Bordet 4.4
An old cafe, an even older legend and a new threat. When Isabelle’s secret past returns to haunt her nightmares, she must take action to pro…

The Gold Sickle

by Eugène Sue Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Gold Sickle; or, Hena the Virgin of the Isle of Sen. A Tale of Druid Gaul is the first part of Eugène Sue's The Mysteries of the …

The Fox

by Arlene Radasky Read by Arlene Radasky 4.7
Jahna and Lovern's clan lay in the Romans' path of destruction. The death of their people is a certainty, unless a bargain is made with the …

Through the Fray

by G. A. Henty Read by GabrielleC 3.6
Ned Sankey is a quick-tempered, strong-willed boy during the Luddite riots in Yorkshire. The happy times at the beginning of the story are s…

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838 (from just bef…

Catherine De' Medici

by Honoré de Balzac Read by Edmund Bloxam 3
The Philosophical Studies from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine) are a series of works that are intended as a reflection on history in p…

The Iron Box

by Unknown 4.5
Holmes and Watson are invited to Dunbar Castle just in time to witness the transfer of an inheritance, but complications arise because the h…

The Home and the World

by Rabindranath Tagore Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo religionist, visual artist, playwright, nov…

Tales from Jókai

by Mór Jókai Read by Availle 4
Móric Jókay de Ásva, known as Mór Jókai or Maurus Jokai, was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. He was a…

Valle

by T.M. Nielsen Read by T.M. Nielsen 4.3
The ominous Valle Faction vows to gain possession of what the Equites has hidden in the well protected Island Coven. Just as Emily thinks sh…

Indian Summer

by William Dean Howells Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) 3.5
In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of…

Briarwood Girls

by Julia Lestargette Glover Read by Julia Lestargette Glover 3.9
The 'Kindred Spirit' are a group of seven friends who met in their freshman year at Briarwood College. The girls have all sorts of difficul…

With Clive in India

by G. A. Henty Read by Gary Olman 3.7
With Clive in India gives a vivid picture of the wonderful events of the ten years, which at their commencement saw Madras in the hands of t…

Prophecy of Swords

by M.H. Bonham Read by M.H. Bonham 3.4
To end a war, nearly a thousand years ago a great warrior named Lachlan sought to unify his people, using the power of the Three Swords of D…

The Communion of the Saint

by Alan David Justice Read by Alan David Justice 4.6
Clio Griffin, an out-of-work academic with an attitude and a tendency toward sarcasm, travels to England to interview for a last-chance job-…

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the…

Madrone

by Jack B. Rochester Read by Jack B. Rochester 4.5
Madrone, the second volume in the Nathaniel Hawthorne Flowers trilogy, follows Wild Blue Yonder: A Novel of the 1960s. It’s 1969 and Nate i…

Carmen

by Prosper Mérimée Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
On a trip to Spain in 1830, our narrator recounts his encounters with two strange characters: a thief named Don José Navarro and a be…

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