Historical Fiction

At the Point of the Bayonet

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
At the Point of the Bayonet transports listeners to the tumultuous landscape of 19th-century India, where the British Empire's ambitions cla…

With Fire and Sword

by Henryk Sienkiewicz Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
In 1647, Poland is a land facing complete destruction with fire and sword. It may come from without, as the Tartar hordes swarm over the ste…

The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.7
Volume 3 of The d'Artagnan Romances is divided into three parts. The first begins in 1660, ten years after Volume 2, with d’Artagnan as Lieu…

The Dinner Club

by Sapper Read by Kirsten Wever 4.6
Herman Cyril McNeile, better known as Sapper, was one of England’s most popular fiction writers during the period between World Wars I and I…

Pimpernel and Rosemary

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by Holly 4.3
A novel in the Scarlet Pimpernel series that features Peter Blakeney, a descendant of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Peter's adventures take him to…

The Brethren

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Abigail Rasmussen 4.8
Set in the days of the Crusaders, this books tells of a young maiden named Rosamund, and her twin cousins. Godwin is the grey eyed thoughtfu…

The House of Baltazar

by William John Locke Read by Simon Evers 4.7
Twenty years ago, John Balthazar, a notable and brilliant Cambridge mathematician, left England abruptly as he found himself falling in love…

The Conjure Woman

by Charles Waddell Chesnutt Read by James K. White 4.5
Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt's first book, The Conjure Woman, was a collection of seven short stories, all set in "P…

The Black Moth

by Georgette Heyer Read by Sibella Denton 4.5
The year is 1752. Devil, the Duke of Andover, and highwayman Jack, the Earl of Wyncham are at odds over a country squire's beautiful daughte…

Where Love Is

by William John Locke Read by Simon Evers 4.6
Norma Hardacre is a member of smart London society. She finds herself irresistibly drawn to a penniless artist named Jimmie Padgate. However…

Call of the Herald

by Brian Rathbone Read by Brian Rathbone 4.3
A World of Godsland novel. Echoes of the ancients' power are distant memories, tattered and faded by the passage of eons, but that is about …

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil

by Anthony Trollope Read by Simon Evers 4.5
Harry Heathcote is an English ‘squatter’ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sist…

The Prime Minister

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Prime Minister is the fifth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. With Phineas' difficulties resolved, Trollope introduces new c…

Beric the Briton

by G. A. Henty Read by Gary Olman 4.4
My series of stories dealing with the wars of England would be altogether incomplete did it not include the period when the Romans were the …

Plain Tales from the Hills

by Rudyard Kipling Read by Mike Harris 4.5
Plain Tales from the Hills is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling, set against the backdrop of British India during the height …

The Shadow of Black Wings

by James Calbraith Read by James Calbraith 4.3
It is the Sixteenth Year of Queen Victoria. In the powerful empire of Dracaland, Bran, a young dragon rider, joins his father on a military …

Iola Leroy

by Frances E. W. Harper Read by James K. White 4.7
This is the story of Iola Leroy, a free-born, mixed-race woman who passed as white. Her true racial identity eventually discovered, she was …

Into the Woods

by David Wood Read by David Wood 4.4
Set against the backdrop of colonial America, Into the Woods is the story of pioneer and patriot Jonathan Wood. Straining against the bonds …

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
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,…

His Grace of Osmonde

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by Linda Andrus 4.4
His Grace of Osmonde offers a captivating glimpse into the life of a nobleman whose story unfolds in the shadows of his wife’s more celebrat…

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