Historical Fiction

The Doings of Raffles Haw

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Patrick Wells 4.4
The people of the small town of Tamfield are not used to exciting things happening. When millionaire Raffles Haw moves to town, rumors sprea…

More Tish

by Mary Roberts Rinehart Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
More Tish continues the delightful adventures of Letitia "Tish" Carberry, an elderly woman with a penchant for mischief and a knac…

Call of the Herald

by Brian Rathbone Read by Brian Rathbone 4.3
A World of Godsland novel. Echoes of the ancients' power are distant memories, tattered and faded by the passage of eons, but that is about …

The Dragon Of Wantley

by Owen Wister Read by David Wales 4.5
A novel, The Dragon of Wantley, was written by Owen Wister (best known as the author of The Virginian) in 1892. Published by Lipincott Press…

The Mystery of the Downs

by Arthur J. Rees Read by Tony Oliva 4.3
"The storm had descended swiftly, sweeping in suddenly from the sea, driving across the downs to the hills at high speed, blotting out …

As We Forgive Them

by William Le Queux Read by Tom Weiss 4.4
Gilbert Greenwood and Reginald Seton are bachelors who share a flat on Great Russell Street. Neither are especially prosperous but through e…

Bonnie Prince Charlie

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This is a tale of the son of a Scottish officer, who gets arrested for helping a Jacobite agent. Set during the Jacobite rebellion in Scotl…

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway Read by KevinS 4.1
The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first novel to be published, though there is his novella The Torrents of Spring which was publishe…

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Northanger Abbey follows seventeen-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Ba…

Colonel Thorndyke's Secret

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Intrigue, murder, highwaymen... A British soldier serving in India has stolen a diamond bracelet from a Hindu idol. The bracelet comes into …

Eugénie Grandet

by Honoré de Balzac Read by Bruce Pirie 4.7
Eugénie Grandet, first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would…

The Shadow of Black Wings

by James Calbraith Read by James Calbraith 4.3
It is the Sixteenth Year of Queen Victoria. In the powerful empire of Dracaland, Bran, a young dragon rider, joins his father on a military …

East Of Eden

by John Steinbeck 4.7
John Steinbeck's epic tale explores the nature of good and evil, inspired by the story of Cain and Abel. This dramatization, adapted by Donn…

The Chief Legatee

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Tony Oliva 4.1
"I was married to-day in Grace Church. At the altar my bride--you probably know her name, Miss Georgian Hazen--wore a natural look, and…

A Texas Cowboy

by Charles A. Siringo Read by David Wales 4.4
Charles A. Siringo was an American lawman, detective, and agent for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency during the late 19th century and…

The Ambulance Made Two Trips

by Murray Leinster Read by Phil Chenevert 4.4
Big Jake Connors is taking over his town through violence, inimidation and bribery but Detective Sergeant Fitzgerald can only grind his teet…

The Pretty Lady

by Arnold Bennett Read by Simon Evers 4.1
‘The Pretty Lady’ is considered to be one of Bennett's most revealing and under-rated works. It is the story of a French prostitute, Christi…

Colonel Quaritch, V.C.

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Esther 4.7
This is not your typical H. Rider Haggard adventure book yet it is full of mystery and intrigue including a coerced marriage, bigotry, adult…

The Shades of the Wilderness

by Joseph A. Altsheler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
"The Shades of the Wilderness" is the seventh book of the Civil War Series by Joseph A. Altsheler. Picking up where "The Star…

The Fifth Queen

by Ford Madox Ford Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.3
The Fifth Queen invites listeners into the tumultuous world of Tudor England, where ambition and desire intertwine in the court of King Henr…

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