Historical Fiction
The Actress in High Life
Read by Celine Major
Susan Petigru King-Bowen
1812 is the year and Portugal the location for this adventure. The characters for the most part are British officers. Lord Strathern sends f…
The Flight of the Shadow
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Laura M. Dake
The original printing of The Flight of the Shadow is a highly sought novel among collectors and tells the tale of an Astral soul who tells a…
The Robbers Cave
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Charlotte Maria Tucker
Sixteen-year-old Horace Cleveland thinks of nobody but himself. While traveling with his mother across the Calabrian countryside on their wa…
Richelieu
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George Payne Rainsford James
Written in three volumes, this fictionalized biography of Richelieu is supposedly based on a manuscript that fell into the author's hands an…
Longshanks
Read by Warren Bergmann
Stephen W. Meader
In 1828, young Tad Hopkins takes an adventure-filled trip down the Mississippi River to meet his father in New Orleans. Along the way he bef…
Order
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Caroline Abbot Stanley
General Order No. 11 has been issued by Union General Thomas Ewing in 1863. The goal was to deprive pro-Confederates in western Missouri of …
Privy Seal
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Ford Madox Ford
This is the second book in Ford's Fifth Queen trilogy, a series of historical novels presenting a fictionalized version of the life of Katha…
Jack Sheppard
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William Harrison Ainsworth
The fictionalized exploits of the very real English outlaw, Jack Sheppard. Published in 1839, this Newgate novel outsold its rival, Dickens'…
Fortune's Fool
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Rafael Sabatini
This novel follows the adventures of the handsome but impecunious Colonel Randal Holles, as he seeks to escape the misfortunes of his past. …
By the Marshes of Minas
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Sir Charles G. D. Roberts and Charles G. D. Roberts
The Acadians around the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada, were removed by the British forcibly, leading to a French presence in several E…
The Underdogs
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Mariano Azuela
A historical, revolutionary novel from a first-person narration of the Mexican Revolution in the 1910s. The author was a military medic …
The Primitive
Read by Jim Locke
Chester Himes
A nerve-twisting novel of passion and destruction (Summary by a literary critic)
Gaspar Ruiz
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Joseph Conrad
This story takes place during the wars of South American independence against Spanish rule. Gaspar Ruiz, a former Spanish soldier thrust int…
A Dream of John Ball
Read by Lauren Huff
William Morris
A Dream of John Ball recounts a dream of being transported back in time to 1381 during the Peasants' Revolt as John Ball and an army of peas…
The Rover
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
Possessed "of a passion weary of itself", elderly ex-privateer Peyrol is driven by "a sudden impulse of scorn, of magnanimity…
The Rush for the Spoil
Read by Mark Leder
Émile Zola
Book Two of Zola's 20-volume Rougon-Macquart Cycle. "The Rush for the Spoil" ("La Curee") concerns Aristide Siccard (on…
From the Life of a Good-For-Nothing
Read by Christoph Stangenberg
Joseph Von Eichendorff
The main character leaves his parental home to earn his own livelihood. During his journey, he falls in love with Aurelie but believes she i…
Sylvia's Lovers
Read by Terrance Callan
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Sylvia Robson is a beautiful young woman living on a farm in Yorkshire at the end of the 18th century. Many love and are loved by her, most …
Pan Michael
Read by David Granville Young
Henryk Sienkiewicz
This is the third part of the Sienkiewicz trilogy. It is loosely based on the politics of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.It is better kn…
Lord Montagu's Page
Read by Lynne T
George Payne Rainsford James
A young man is crossing the English Channel bound for France. It is obviously not his first such trip, but who is he and what is his errand?…