Historical Fiction
The Man with the Clubfoot
Read by Mark Nelson
Valentine Williams
"The Man with the Clubfoot" is one of the most ingenious and sinister secret agents in Europe. It is to him that the task is assig…
The Keeper of the Bees
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Gene Stratton-Porter
Threatened with isolation in a sanitorium for tuberculosis, a young soldier escapes and finds himself healing in a paradisal bee-garden by t…
The Ladies' Paradise
Read by Kristin G.
Émile Zola
Zola's original French publication, Au Bonheur des Dames ("The Ladies' Delight"), published 1882, is the eleventh novel in his Rou…
Dash for Khartoum
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G. A. Henty
When a nursemaid mixes up her baby boy and the baby of the family she works for, the family decides to keep both. Years later, the nursemaid…
The Blazed Trail
Read by Tom Weiss
Stewart Edward White
Stewart Edward White wrote fiction and non-fiction about adventure and travel, with an emphasis on natural history and outdoor living. White…
Ang Singsing nang Dalagang Marmol
Read by April Gonzales
Isabelo De Los Reyes
Ang nobeletang Ang Singsing nang Dalagang Marmol ni Isabelo de los Reyes ay hinggil sa kawal ng himagsikang Pilipino na napaibig sa isang da…
El Aprendiz de Conspirador
Read by Antonio Redondo
Pío Baroja
El aprendiz de conspirador empieza presentándonos la figura de Pello Leguía, imaginario pariente de Baroja, criatura hecha a i…
La Estafeta Romántica
Read by Tux
Benito Pérez Galdós
La estafeta no es sino el correo y esta es precisamente, la forma de correspondencia, la estructura de la sexta novela de la tercera serie d…
Old Christmas
Read by Greg Giordano
Washington Irving
Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with…
A Great Man
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
Subtitled 'A Frolic', this light-hearted book follows the fortunes of Henry Shakespeare Knight who, rather to his own surprise, writes a bes…
Samson Agonistes
Read by Martin Geeson
John Milton
“The Sun to me is darkAnd silent as the Moon,When she deserts the nightHid in her vacant interlunar cave.”Milton composes his last extended …
The Mill on the Floss
Read by Tom Denholm
George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the l…
Iola Leroy
Read by James K. White
Frances E. W. Harper
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 …
A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter
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Alice Turner Curtis
Sylvia Fulton is a ten-years-old girl from Boston who stayed in Charleston, South Carolina, before the opening of the Civil War. She loves h…
סיפורים קצרים
Read by Omri Lernau
שלום עליכם Sholem Aleichem
This recording is in Hebrew.Stories included:רבי דב (Rabbi Dov)שני תרנגולים (Two Cocks)פסח שנשבת (Pesach Celebration Spoiled)יוסל הגנן (Yose…
Joshua
Read by Ann Boulais
Georg Ebers
Hosea is a commander in Pharaoh's army... and a Hebrew. As he returns home from war, he finds that there has been a great pestilence in Egy…
A Group of Noble Dames
Read by Libby Gohn
Thomas Hardy
The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of…
La Gitanilla
Read by KendalRigans
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
La Gitanilla relata la historia de una gitana joven que fue conocida por todos los lugares donde anduvo a causa de su extrema belleza y a la…
Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross
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Florence Morse Kingsley
This is a unique sequel to the book Titus: A Comrade of the Cross written in a very different style, though none the less memorable, full of…
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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…