Historical Fiction

The Long, Long Trail

by Max Brand Read by David Wales 4.4
A willful flirtatious girl; a morose family; a dark, mysterious, and (to some) alluring man; lots of horses, guns, honor, love, courage, and…

The Eyes Of The World

by Harold Bell Wright Read by Tom Weiss 4.7
The Eyes of the World was the Best Selling Book for 1914 according to Publisher's Weekly. The novel explores what Harold Bell Wright views a…

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas Read by Mark F. Smith 4.8
D’Artagnan, son of a poor Gascon aristocrat, travels to Paris to seek his fortune. His family connections enable him to obtain a position in…

Middlemarch

by George Eliot Read by Margaret Espaillat 4.7
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh n…

The Benefactress

by Elizabeth Von Arnim Read by Helen Taylor 4.4
Anna Estcourt, twenty-five and beautiful, is the penniless ward of her distant brother and his exasperating wife. Turning down all offers of…

The Gloved Hand

by Burton Egbert Stevenson Read by Don W. Jenkins 4.5
Mr. Lester, a private investigator, and his friend Godfrey are caught up in a strange case that takes them to a large estate in the country …

The Pathfinder

by James Fenimore Cooper Read by Mark F. Smith 4.6
Natty Bumppo goes by many names: La Longue Carabine, Hawk Eye, Leatherstocking, and in this tale, The Pathfinder. Guide, scout, hunter, and …

Little Lord Fauntleroy

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This story is about an American lad of 7 years old who lives with his young widowed mother in New York. He spends his days with his friend t…

A Silent Witness

by R. Austin Freeman Read by Anna Simon 4.6
In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon a corpse during a walk near Hampstead Heath in the middle of the ni…

The Dragon and the Raven

by G. A. Henty Read by Mike Harris 4.7
During the reign of King Alfred, Danish forces have invaded the English countryside. Although the English try to repulse these attacks, they…

The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet

by Burton Egbert Stevenson Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
Three men are dead. Killed by a very powerful poison. Their deaths seem to be connected to a very old cabinet purchased in France and a noto…

The Valley of the Moon

by Jack London Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.7
The novel Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-th…

Little Men

by Louisa May Alcott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Jo March's dreams of opening a home for boys comes true as she finds herself the mistress of Plumfield, a boarding school for children -- wh…

The Mayor's Wife

by Anna Katharine Green Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Miss Saunders is out for an adventure. One, which is full of secrets, hints, and half-lies. One, which will require all of her wits. She is …

Sanctuary

by Edith Wharton Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.3
Sanctuary is a poignant exploration of love, betrayal, and the quest for personal freedom, set against the backdrop of early 20th-century so…

The Herapath Property

by J. S. Fletcher Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.3
Jacob Herapath, a wealthy property developer and member of Parliament, is found dead in his office, a revolver at his side and a bullet woun…

Isobel

by James Oliver Curwood Read by Roger Melin 4.7
Action, intrigue, and a touch of romance in the farthest reaches of northern Canada. Sergeant Billy MacVeigh of the Canadian Northwest Mount…

The Blue Castle

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Valancy Stirling, plain, twenty nine, and as yet unsought, is given a year to live by a great heart specialist. This is the story of her yea…

That Lass o' Lowrie's

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by Phil Benson 4.8
Frances Hodgson Burnett was born and grew up in Manchester, England, and emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 16. Fo…

Diary of a U-boat Commander

by Stephen King-Hall Read by Mark F. Smith 4.6
Captain Karl von Schenk of the Kaiser's Navy is a stereotypical German nobleman - supremely self-confident, touchy about the divisions of cl…

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