Historical Fiction

Micah Clarke

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
This book tells the story of Micah Clarke's adventures. As a boy he follows his rather romantic notions of what it means to be a soldier and…

The Terrible Business of Salmon & Dusk

by Myke Bartlett Read by Myke Bartlett 4.2
Theo Braithwaite, failed actress and worse waitress, is a stranger to London. In a single day, she loses her job, her boyfriend and quite po…

Camilla

by Frances Burney Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Camilla is Frances Burney's third novel. It became very popular upon its publication in 1796. Jane Austen referred to it, among other novels…

Germinal

by Émile Zola Read by Matt Perard 3.3
This epic about French coal miners and the burgeoning labor movement is considered one of Zola's finest novels. - Summary by Matt Pierard

hackoff.com

by Tom Evslin Read by Tom Evslin 4.1
Larry Lazard, CEO of hackoff.com, takes his company public and watches its stock price soar and collapse. Following a hostile takeover attem…

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald 4.1
Language: EnglishThe Great Gatsby follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the sum…

Windsor Castle

by William Harrison Ainsworth Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Book 6 - Jane Seymour. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as …

The Island of Sheep

by John Buchan 4.2
This is the last of Buchan’s ‘Richard Hannay’ novels. It’s cast of Characters, in addition to Hannay himself, includes from earlier novels, …

The Siege of Corinth

by George Gordon, Lord Byron Read by Nathan 4.5
In this moving poem, Byron recounts the final, desperate resistance of the Venetians on the day the Ottoman army stormed Acrocorinth: reveal…

The Steel Hammer

by Louis Ulbach Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
A large inheritance greatly transforms the lives of three people: a good man, who would have inherited at least a part of the fortune if his…

Famous Potatoes

by Joe Cottonwood Read by Joe Cottonwood 4.1
"An engaging picaresque novel of a young man on the run. A warm, well-told story of a likable character with a knack for being in the w…

Wild Blue Yonder

by Jack B. Rochester Read by Jack B. Rochester 3.9
Wild Blue Yonder is the coming-of-age story of Nathaniel Hawthorne Flowers, a smart but sheltered boy from suburban Chicago whose beloved fa…

The Maid of Maiden Lane

by Amelia E. Barr Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Mrs. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in …

Brood of Bones

by A.E. Marling Read by A.E. Marling 4.5
Cursed with endless drowsiness, Enchantress Hiresha sleeps more than she lives. Since she never has had a chance to raise a family, she some…

The Daughter of the Sioux

by Charles King Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
Charles King was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He was the son of Civil War general Rufus King and great grandson of Ru…

The Deluge

by Henryk Sienkiewicz Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a th…

Paraffin Winter

by Peter Chowney Read by Peter Chowney 4.3
The winter of 1963 was the coldest winter of the century in the UK, at a time when post-war austerity and social class divisions made for a …

Theft of the Master

by Edwin Alexander Read by Edwin Alexander 4.1
Theft of the Master has been described as the Boys from Brazil meets The Da Vinci Code —Kirkus Private Investigator Al Hershey takes the rea…

The Bronze Eagle

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by Deon Gines 3.7
The Bronze Eagle is a romantic historical novel which takes place during the return of Napoleon and his attempt to reestablish his Empire. T…

The Second Bat Guano War

by J.M. Porup Read by J.M. Porup 4
From former Lonely Planet author J.M. Porup comes this classic South American noir... Rats ate his baby daughter while he partied in a disco…

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