Historical Fiction

The Watchers

by A. E. W. Mason Read by Jacquerie 4.4
A dark tale of adventure, piracy, murder, and revenge set on a rugged Cornish island in the mid-1700s. Told with the literary excellence to …

The People of the Mist

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.5
Penniless Leonard Outram attempts to redress the undeserved loss of his family estates and fiancee by seeking his fortune in Africa. In the …

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
This is a short novel published in 1895 and based vaguely on the battle of Chancellorsville of the American Civil War. Unlike other works on…

Uncle Bernac

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Cate Barratt 4.5
Looking for a replacement to Sherlock Holmes after the author had killed him off in 1894, Doyle wrote this murder mystery in the dying years…

The Golden Calf

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by Tara Dow 4.6
A late 19th Century sensation novel following the young life of Ida Palliser as she searches for fortune and love within England's Gentry Cl…

The Guns of Bull Run

by Joseph A. Altsheler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The first volume in the Civil War series, following the adventures of Harry Kenton, who leaves his home in Kentucky. He travels through dang…

The Efficiency Expert

by Edgar Rice Burroughs Read by Delmar H Dolbier 4.7
Our hero, Jimmy Torrance, Jr., has a hard time finding suitable employment after a brilliant (athletically, at least) college career, despit…

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…

Redburn

by Herman Melville Read by James K. White 4.5
Melville wrote of some of his earliest experiences at sea in the story of Wellingborough Redburn, a wet-behind-the-ears youngster whose head…

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women

by George MacDonald Read by Thomas A. Copeland 4.5
An author who means to end a story with some variation of “And they all lived happily ever after” had better deal before that point not just…

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë Read by Expatriate 4.7
When Helen Graham moves into old Wildfell Hall with her little son Arthur, the rustic neighborhood comes alive with gossip and speculation, …

Tales of the Jazz Age

by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by Don W. Jenkins 4.4
Tales of the Jazz Age is a captivating collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, showcasing the vibrancy and complexity of …

The Point of Honor

by Joseph Conrad Read by Mark F. Smith 4.7
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor i…

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce Read by Tadhg 4.7
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce’s semi-autobiographical first novel. It traces the early life of Stephen Dedalus and his in…

Agnes Grey

by Anne Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn money to care for herself, she takes one o…

Pearl Maiden

by H. Rider Haggard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This is the story of Miriam, an orphan Christian woman living in Rome in the first century. She falls in love with a Roman officer, but know…

As We Forgive Them

by William Le Queux Read by Tom Weiss 4.4
Gilbert Greenwood and Reginald Seton are bachelors who share a flat on Great Russell Street. Neither are especially prosperous but through e…

The Rainbow

by D. H. Lawrence Read by Tony Foster 4.3
Briefly appearing in 1915, then banned and taken out of circulation for its adult treatment of sexuality, Lawrence's visionary novel The Rai…

A Little Country Girl

by Susan Coolidge Read by Lynne T 4.6
Candace makes the first long trip of her young life alone. Everything is new, from the ocean views, to the fashionable people she encounters…

The Devil's Paw

by E. Phillips Oppenheim Read by Tom Weiss 4.4
In a world teetering on the brink of chaos, The Devil's Paw weaves a complex tale of loyalty and deception. At its heart is a beautiful and …

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