Historical Fiction

The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes

by Anonymous Read by Expatriate 4.2
A whimsical collection of stories about a wandering street urchin, Lazarillo de Tormes is a classic of the Spanish Golden Age, even paid hom…

Imaginary Conversations

by Walter Savage Landor Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Imaginary Conversations by Walter Savage Landor presents a unique collection of dialogues featuring historical and mythical figures. Through…

The Key to the Riddle

by Margaret S. Comrie Read by Angela Engel 4.7
Young Azerole Montoux and her brother Leon find themselves separated from their family by the religious persecutions of 1686. Threatened by …

Barnaby Rudge

by Charles Dickens Read by Hamlet 4.5
The Protestant Sir John Chester and the Catholic Geoffrey Haredale have been feuding for years. In "Romeo and Juliet" fashion, Che…

Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreord…

In the Service of Samurai

by Gloria Oliver Read by Gloria Oliver 4.6
The choice: Serve the undead or become one of them. Toshi never expected the strange visitor who one evening stepped foot insidehis master'…

Leatherface

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by Deon Gines 4.1
A romantic, political adventure story set in the late 1500's, during the Spanish rule over the Netherlands, in the city of Ghent. Leatherfac…

Flemington

by Violet Jacob Read by Nan Dodge 4.3
This adventure historical fiction novel is set in Angus, Scotland during the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. It has all the elements of a good w…

In Exile and Other Stories

by Mary Hallock Foote Read by David Wales 4.2
Six short stories by Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories…

Last Man

by Mary Shelley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
The Last Man is an early post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a futu…

An Outback Marriage

by Andrew Barton Paterson and Banjo Paterson Read by Arrowhead Aussie 4.3
A ROLLICKING YARN FROM AN AUSTRALIAN LEGENDBanjo Paterson is our best known and most loved bush poet. Less well known, but no less captivati…

Under the Witches' Moon

by Nathan Gallizier Read by Bill Boerst 4.4
The scene is Rome, 935 A.D. Thirty-year-old Tristan, dressed as a pilgrim, overhears a conversation between Basil, the Grand Chamberlain, an…

The Leopard's Spots

by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Read by Michele Fry 4.1
The first in a trilogy of the Reconstruction era - The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907), parts of this no…

The Black Dwarf

by Sir Walter Scott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Black Dwarf is the first of the “Tales of My Landlord” series, which also includes The Bride of Lammermoor and The Heart of Midlothian. …

The Pharaoh and the Priest

by Bolesław Prus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
The Pharaoh and the Priest (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was the sole historica…

Padre Ignacio

by Owen Wister Read by David Wales 4.4
Padre Ignacio has been the pastor of California mission Santa Ysabel del Mar for twenty years. In 1855 a stranger rides into the mission bri…

Waverley

by Sir Walter Scott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or…

Beau Brocade

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by Deon Gines 4.1
Beau Brocade is a historical fiction set in England in the early 1700's. The hero Beau is a wanted highwayman, who takes from the rich to h…

Australia Felix

by Henry Handel Richardson Read by tabithat 4.4
The story of Richard Mahony, a doctor trained in Edinburgh who comes to Ballarat in the gold rush of the 1850s. At first he runs a shop but …

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