Historical Fiction

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy Read by MaryAnn 4.7
Two love stories are set against the backdrop of high society in Tsarist Russia. Anna awakes from a loveless marriage to find herself drawn …

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

Scaramouche

by Rafael Sabatini Read by Gord Mackenzie 4.8
Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a la…

The Outlaw of Torn

by Edgar Rice Burroughs Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The story is set in 13th century England and concerns the fictitious outlaw Norman of Torn, who purportedly harried the country during the p…

Notwithstanding

by Mary Cholmondeley Read by Simon Evers 4.7
The book starts with Annette Georges choosing between two fates: suicide and running away with a disreputable stranger. She is rescued by a …

Men of Iron

by Howard Pyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle is historical fiction that transports us back to the 1400's, a time of knighthood and chivalry. Myles Falworth is…

The Spirit of the Border

by Zane Grey Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) 4.6
This is an early novel by the phenomenally successful author of frontier, western and sports stories. It deals with historical characters an…

The Thread of Flame

by Basil King Read by Simon Evers 4.5
Edward wakes up on board a ship crossing the Atlantic, on his return from the Great War – however, he finds that his memory of who he is and…

Mark the Match Boy

by Horatio Alger, Jr. Read by Tori Faulder 4.7
In this third installment from the “Ragged Dick” series by Horatio Algers, Jr., the reader is reacquainted with some old friends and meets y…

Uncle Bernac

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Cate Barratt 4.5
Looking for a replacement to Sherlock Holmes after the author had killed him off in 1894, Doyle wrote this murder mystery in the dying years…

The Young Carthaginian

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Typically, Henty's heroes are boys of pluck in troubled times, and this is no different. Detailed research is embellished with a vivid imagi…

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe Read by John Greenman 4.8
Among the most “banned” books in the United States, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beeche…

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot Read by Tom Denholm 4.8
The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the l…

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by Cori Samuel 4.6
This book tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman who conceives a child while her husband is missing at sea. The Puritan Elders of …

Diana Tempest

by Mary Cholmondeley Read by Simon Evers 4.7
Colonel Tempest, his wastrel son Archie and beautiful daughter Diana (Di) are dismayed when they are cut out of the will of old Mr Tempest, …

The Virginian

by Owen Wister Read by Michelle Harris 4.5
Ostensibly a love story, the novel really revolves around a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War in 1890's Wyoming ... The …

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir”) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, firs…

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane Read by Mark F. Smith 4.6
A youth, caught up in patriotic fervor and dreams of glory, enlists in the Union Army. In his first battle, though, he runs away. Deeply ash…

The Great Shadow

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Jacquerie 4.5
Set in an English-Scottish border village during the waning days of the Napoleonic era, this adventure story introduces us to Jock Calder, w…

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