Historical Fiction

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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…

Barnaby Rudge

by Charles Dickens Read by Mil Nicholson 4.8
One of the two Historical novels Charles Dickens wrote, Barnaby Rudge is set around the ‘Gordon’ riots in London in 1780. The story begins i…

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…

Dawn of the Morning

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Fresh from school, mistreated and neglected by her father and stepmother, sixteen-year-old Dawn consents to marry a friend of her father's w…

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…

Huntingtower

by John Buchan Read by Simon Evers 4.7
Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer, plans a walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English p…

The Man of the Desert

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by LikeManyWaters 4.8
Fleeing from an aggressive suitor, Hazel Radcliffe becomes hopelessly lost in the Arizona desert. Exhausted, she falls unconscious from her …

The Semi-Attached Couple

by Emily Eden Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.6
Young and beautiful Helen Eskdale and fabulously wealthy Lord Teviot seem to be the perfect match. But when they marry, they find that misun…

The White Company

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Clive Catterall 4.8
Set during the Hundred Years' War with France, The White Company tells the story of a young Saxon man who is learning what it is to be a kni…

A Prairie-Schooner Princess

by Mary Katherine Maule Read by Sharon Kilmer 4.7
The story of a Quaker family's journey from Ohio to Nebraska beginning in 1856. They encounter a mystery which leaves them an orphan girl wh…

The Enchanted April

by Elizabeth Von Arnim Read by Helen Taylor 4.8
Four very different women, with very different reasons for wanting to escape a cold and dreary London, come together to share a month's holi…

Mary Barton

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by Tony Foster 4.8
"Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life" was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuou…

Piccadilly Jim

by P. G. Wodehouse Read by Mark Nelson 4.8
Jimmy "Piccadilly Jim" Crocker returns to New York to repair his reputation and pursue his love-interest, Ann Chester. All he has …

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…

Burning Daylight

by Jack London Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.7
Burning Daylight, Jack London's fictional novel published in 1910, was one of the best selling books of that year and it was his best sellin…

El Dorado

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by Karen Savage 4.8
In El Dorado, Baroness Emma Orczy continues the thrilling escapades of the enigmatic hero known as the Scarlet Pimpernel. Set against the ba…

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