Historical Fiction

Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Abigail Rasmussen 4.8
This is a great book if you're looking for an adventure filled novel. It takes place during the Spanish Inquisition and describes some of th…

Linda Tressel

by Anthony Trollope Read by Simon Evers 4.3
Linda Tressel lives a lonely life with her domineering aunt, Madame Staubach, in a large house in Nuremberg. Madame Staubach takes in the od…

The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

by Ambrose Bierce Read by Phil Chenevert 4.4
Set against the backdrop of 17th century Europe, The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter weaves a poignant narrative that explores the intersect…

Chicot the Jester

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.3
This sequel to Dumas' “Marguerite de Valois” begins four years after the sudden death of King Charles IX and succession of his brother Henry…

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 …

Phineas Redux

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Phineas Finn is the fourth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. At the end of Phineas Finn, the second novel in the series, Phineas…

Max

by Katherine Cecil Thurston Read by Simon Evers 4.4
On a trans-continental train journey into Paris, Max, a young adventurer determined to make his way as an artist, meets Blake, a well-to-do …

Fraternity

by John Galsworthy Read by Simon Evers 4.2
A satire of middle-class complacency and artistic aspiration. It is the story of a strange bohemian upper-class love triangle, and of a myst…

Felix Holt, The Radical

by George Eliot Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is …

Old Christmas

by Washington Irving Read by Greg Giordano 4.8
Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with…

Through Russian Snows

by G. A. Henty Read by Gary Olman 4.3
There are few campaigns that, either in point of the immense scale upon which it was undertaken, the completeness of its failure, or the eno…

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

by William Makepeace Thackeray Read by mb 4.6
First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel…

The Fifth Queen

by Ford Madox Ford Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.3
The Fifth Queen invites listeners into the tumultuous world of Tudor England, where ambition and desire intertwine in the court of King Henr…

Tales Of The Trail

by Henry Inman Read by David Wales 4.5
This 1898 collection of thirteen previously published articles exhibits the acute perception of one of the most popular writers of the late …

Fortunata y Jacinta

by Benito Pérez Galdós Read by Epachuko 4.8
"Fortunata y Jacinta" esta considerada la mejor obra de su autor: Benito Pérez Galdós, y junto con "La Regenta&…

On the Eve

by Ivan Turgenev Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.6
On the Eve appeared in 1860, two years before Fathers and Sons, Turgenev's most famous novel. It is set in the prior decade (by the end of t…

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

by Henry Fielding Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foun…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
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 Forty-Five Guardsmen

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.5
The sequel to "Chicot the Jester" and final book of the "Valois Romances." This story begins six years after the famed &…

The Man of Property

by John Galsworthy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
'The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. The Man of Pro…

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