Historical Fiction

The Star of Gettysburg

by Joseph A. Altsheler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Army of Northern Virginia, still victorious after three hard years of fighting, capitalize on their victories at Fredericksburg and Chan…

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley Read by Thomas A. Copeland 4.7
A mentally unstable genius, Victor Frankenstein, inspired by the dreams of ancient alchemists and empowered by modern science, creates a hum…

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

by Henry Fielding Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
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…

The Turn Of The Tide

by Eleanor H. Porter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
"What a joy! How exciting!" Margret Kendall returned home, to her loving and equally beloved mother's arms after 4 years in the sl…

The Dragon Of Wantley

by Owen Wister Read by David Wales 4.5
A novel, The Dragon of Wantley, was written by Owen Wister (best known as the author of The Virginian) in 1892. Published by Lipincott Press…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
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,…

The Valley of Fear

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Alisson Veldhuis 4.7
John Douglas has been murdered at Birlstone manner, but Sherlock Holmes' main concern is the missing dumbell in the murder room. This fourth…

The Doings of Raffles Haw

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Patrick Wells 4.4
The people of the small town of Tamfield are not used to exciting things happening. When millionaire Raffles Haw moves to town, rumors sprea…

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 4.5
Set in 1925, this is a novel of the Jazz Age; of ambition, of the careless rich, of wild parties and flappers and bootleg booze; and the eff…

Into the Woods

by David Wood Read by David Wood 4.4
Set against the backdrop of colonial America, Into the Woods is the story of pioneer and patriot Jonathan Wood. Straining against the bonds …

Titus

by Florence Morse Kingsley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Titus: A Comrade of the cross is a book full of suspense and drama, but more importantly truth. It is about Titus, a young man living in the…

Pauline's Passion and Punishment

by Louisa May Alcott Read by Elizabeth Klett 4
Before she wrote Little Women and Little Men, Louisa, writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, had this `blood and thunder' thriller (as sh…

The Mystery of the Downs

by Arthur J. Rees Read by Tony Oliva 4.3
"The storm had descended swiftly, sweeping in suddenly from the sea, driving across the downs to the hills at high speed, blotting out …

A Texas Cowboy

by Charles A. Siringo Read by David Wales 4.4
Charles A. Siringo was an American lawman, detective, and agent for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency during the late 19th century and…

The Black Moth

by Georgette Heyer Read by Sibella Denton 4.5
The year is 1752. Devil, the Duke of Andover, and highwayman Jack, the Earl of Wyncham are at odds over a country squire's beautiful daughte…

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England. S…

Das Mädchen vom Moorhof

by Selma Lagerlöf Read by Karlsson 4.7
Dies ist eine der schönsten Erzählungen der schwedischen Dichterin und Nobelpreisträgerin. Mit Demut und opferbereiter Liebe …

Eugénie Grandet

by Honoré de Balzac Read by Bruce Pirie 4.7
Eugénie Grandet, first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would…

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens Read by Hamlet 4.7
Mr Pickwick, founder of the Pickwick Club, sets out with his three friends, Tupman, Snodgrass, and Winkle, to observe the world. They inten…

Beric the Briton

by G. A. Henty Read by Gary Olman 4.4
My series of stories dealing with the wars of England would be altogether incomplete did it not include the period when the Romans were the …

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