Historical Fiction

The Sign of The Four

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by David Clarke 4.8
The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. …

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by David Clarke 4.9
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holme…

Rainbow Valley

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by Karen Savage 4.8
Rainbow Valley shifts the focus from Anne and Gilbert Blythe to their lively six children, who find themselves intertwined with the new mini…

The Valley of Fear

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by David Clarke 4.8
Receiving a mysterious cypher message from a Fred Porlock, apparent agent of the infamous Professor Moriarty, Holmes and Watson set about de…

Sir Nigel

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Clive Catterall 4.8
By 1348 the House of Loring has fallen on hard times. Together, the Black Death and the greedy monks of Waverley have bled away all of the L…

Dangerous Days

by Mary Roberts Rinehart Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.9
Dangerous Days opens in a still neutral America, though within a year the country will have joined the European alliance against the Central…

A Voice in the Wilderness

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Margaret leaves her family home and security to become a school teacher in the wilds of early Arizona. Accidentally getting off her safe and…

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.9
Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte." De Conte …

Aunt Crete's Emancipation

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by Cori Samuel 4.8
Aunt Lucretia — 'Crete' to her family — is a sweet, patient older woman, who lives with her narrow-minded sister and spoilt niece, acting as…

An Unwilling Guest

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by LikeManyWaters 4.6
A young society woman travels to the country to visit her aunt, only to end up as the unwilling guest of a neighboring family. The daughter …

The Talleyrand Maxim

by J. S. Fletcher Read by Kevin Green 4.7
John Mallathorpe, a wealthy Yorkshire industrialist and land owner dies in an accident, apparently without making a will. His estate goes t…

The Little Nugget

by P. G. Wodehouse Read by Mark Nelson 4.7
Mrs Nesta Ford, in her London hotel room, reveals to her new friend Lord Mountry that she hopes to take her son Ogden on a yachting trip pro…

The Browns at Mt. Hermon

by Pansy Read by BookAngel7 4.6
When she mistakenly receives an offer of work addressed only to "Mary Brown," the lonely young heiress Mary Thornton Brown forms a…

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.7
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court transports readers from 19th-century America to the legendary realm of Camelot, where the clash …

North and South

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by MaryAnn 4.8
North and South is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural so…

Ben-Hur

by Lew Wallace Read by Mark F. Smith 4.9
Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator wh…

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray Read by Helen Taylor 4.8
One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mo…

The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation

by J. S. Fletcher Read by MaryAnn 4.6
Marshall Allerdyke is driving through the night from London to Hull in response to an urgent telegram from his cousin. As he nears Hull, a …

Little Dorrit

by Charles Dickens Read by Mil Nicholson 4.9
Little Dorrit, one of the three great novels of Charles Dickens’ last period, was produced in monthly installments from 1855 to 1857, and is…

Lost Man's Lane

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Mary Bard 4.6
After several people apparently vanish into thin air while walking along the same country road, New York detective Mr Gryce calls on the ski…

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