Historical Fiction

The Empty Sack

by Basil King Read by Simon Evers 4.6
The book follows the fortunes of Jennie Follett, a New York artist’s model, and Teddy, her brother. After their father’s dismissal from his …

In the Midst of Life

by Ambrose Bierce Read by David Wales 4.6
These stories detail the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. This is the 1909 edition. The 1909 edition omits six…

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Follows the fortunes of the son of a noble Saxon family in Norman England as he woos his lady, disobeys his father, and is loved by another.…

A Lady of Quality

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by Linda Andrus 4.1
A Lady of Quality transports listeners to late 17th-century England, where the life of a spirited woman unfolds against a backdrop of societ…

The Wife of His Youth

by Charles Waddell Chesnutt Read by James K. White 4.9
Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim …

The Brethren

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Abigail Rasmussen 4.8
Set in the days of the Crusaders, this books tells of a young maiden named Rosamund, and her twin cousins. Godwin is the grey eyed thoughtfu…

Ride Proud, Rebel!

by Andre Norton Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
Drew Rennie, served as a cavalry scout in Confederate general John Hunt Morgan's command. He had left home in 1862 after a final break with …

The Doctor's Wife

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by Kirsten Wever 4.1
This is one of the Victorian “Sensationist” Mary Elizabeth Braddon's many novels (best known among them: “Lady Audley’s Secret”). It is extr…

A Knight of the White Cross

by G. A. Henty Read by pmstrahm 4.6
Adventure, pirates, a young orphan finds a place with a legendary order of knights. Fighting on sea and land to defend his people from barba…

The Glory of Clementina Wing

by William John Locke Read by Simon Evers 4.7
The book follows the adventures of two main characters - Clementina Wing, a talented artist in her mid 30's with no social graces and Ephrai…

With Moore at Corunna

by G. A. Henty Read by Charles P. Sapp 4.7
Terrence O’Conner, Son of an officer in the “Mayo Fusiliers,” joins as an ensign when the regiment is called out to Portugal to fight the Fr…

Plain Tales from the Hills

by Rudyard Kipling Read by Mike Harris 4.5
Plain Tales from the Hills is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling, set against the backdrop of British India during the height …

Orlando

by Virginia Woolf 4.6
A fictional biography following the adventures of Orlando: initially a gentleman, later a lady — always a poet — who romps through British h…

Miss Mackenzie

by Anthony Trollope Read by Kirsten Wever 4.5
The thirty-five year-old (hence utterly over-the-hill) Miss Margaret Mackenzie, having devoted her life to others, suddenly finds herself wi…

The Guns of Shiloh

by Joseph A. Altsheler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Northern Army has just be handed a great defeat at Bull Run and is headed back to Washington, DC. How will the North answer this defeat?…

The Secret Battle

by A.P. Herbert and A. P. Herbert Read by Roger Melin 4.7
Like many soldiers at the beginning of their military careers, Harry Penrose has romantic ideas of climbing the ranks and attaining hero sta…

The Rough Road

by William John Locke Read by Simon Evers 4.8
The book tells the story of "Doggie" Trevor, who, having been wrapped in cotton wool since babyhood, becomes a snobbish rich dilet…

The Prime Minister

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Prime Minister is the fifth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. With Phineas' difficulties resolved, Trollope introduces new c…

A Great Man

by Arnold Bennett Read by Simon Evers 4.6
Subtitled 'A Frolic', this light-hearted book follows the fortunes of Henry Shakespeare Knight who, rather to his own surprise, writes a bes…

The Eustace Diamonds

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace, is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. Wh…

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