Historical Fiction
The Australaise
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C. J. Dennis
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 recordings of The Austra--laise by C.J.Dennis. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 13, 2013.…
How a Fisherman Corked up His Foe in a Jar
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Guy Wetmore Carryl
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of How a Fisherman Corked up His Foe in a Jar by Guy Wetmore Carryl. This was the Fortnightly Po…
The Great Gatsby (Version 5 Dramatic Reading)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a haunting portrait of ambition, love, and illusion in 1920s America. Narrated by Nick Carraway, …
Catherine: A Story
Read by Mark Leder
William Makepeace Thackeray
The wild and raw adventures of Catherine Hayes, who was burned for murder at Tyburn in 1742 - Summary by Mark Leder
Simon Called Peter
Read by Simon Evers
Robert Keable
Peter, a conventional Anglican priest, becomes a padre in northern France during the First World War. He is posted to a hospital on the coas…
The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers Vol. 1
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Robert Henry Newell
These are a collection of humorous "letters" written by a fictional character to a relation in the north during the Civil War. The…
Men of Iron (Version 3)
Read by Annie C.
Howard Pyle
Myles Falworth, son of a wrongfully outlawed lord, grows up amid the rough life of the dark ages. This book tells how he grows from an impul…
Welcome to Spring
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Ring Lardner
Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about…
The Broad Highway (Version 2)
Read by Simon Evers
John Jeffery Farnol
Peter Vibart is expected to inherit the fortune and title of his uncle but will only inherit if he marries Lady Sophia, the toast of the tow…
The Cliff-Dwellers
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Henry Blake Fuller
Between the former site of old Fort Dearborn and the present site of our newest Board of Trade there lies a restricted yet tumultuous territ…
Tales of a Vanishing River
Read by Tom Hirsch (1947-2022)
Earl Reed
The background of this collection of sketches and stories is the country through which flowed one of the most interesting of our western riv…
The Garies and their Friends
Read by Jim Locke
Frank Webb
The book which now appears before the public may be of interest in relation to a question which the late agitation of the subject of slavery…
The Wounded Name
Read by Elin
D. K. Broster
Laurent de Courtomer, the son of a French aristocratic emigré and an Englishwoman, returns to France upon the Bourbon restoration fol…
Condemned as a Nihilist: A Story of Escape from Siberia
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G. A. Henty
Godfrey Bullen, the son of an English trader, is sent by his father to Russia to work in their firm in St. Petersburg. He unknowingly gets c…
The Quaker City
Read by Mark Nelson
George Lippard
The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall was originally published in 1845, and is considered the first muckraking novel. It is a lurid and…
Short Stories in Prose and Verse
Read by Chris Greaves
Henry Lawson
Short Stories in Prose and Verse” is Henry Lawson’s first published book (1894); his first published poem appeared in 1887. The volume is a …
John MacNab
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John Buchan
Sir Edward Leithen and his friends Lord Lamancha, Palliser-Yeates, and Archie Roylance are bored of life. After Leithen's doctor recommends …
The History of David Grieve
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
The book follows the life and times of David Grieve, from his childhood on a remote farm in the Peak District to Manchester, Paris and back …
The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
Read by Lauren Huff
Mary Shelley
After the brutal and turbulent Wars of the Roses, Henry VII reigned over England and the sons of his rival Edward IV, once held captive in t…
The White Conquerors: A Tale of Toltec and Aztec
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Kirk Munroe
This historical romance is a telling of the fall of the Aztec Empire. The epic begins on the eve of the dedication ceremony of the monumenta…