Historical Fiction

Clotel

by William Wells Brown Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is a novel by William Wells Brown (1814-84), a fugitive from slavery and abolitionist and was published…

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley Read by Thomas A. Copeland 4.7
A mentally unstable genius, Victor Frankenstein, inspired by the dreams of ancient alchemists and empowered by modern science, creates a hum…

Challenge of the Yukon

4.3
Challenge of the Yukon was a long-running radio series that began on Detroit's station WXYZ. This adventure series follows Sergeant William …

The Gold Hunters

by John David Borthwick Read by Sue Anderson 4.3
This is a robust, rough and tumble, first-hand account of the early California gold rush years 1851-1854 by a Scottish adventurer and artist…

The Rock of Chickamauga

by Joseph A. Altsheler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Rock of Chickamauga immerses listeners in a pivotal moment of the American Civil War, focusing on the intense battles and personal strug…

The Talisman

by Sir Walter Scott Read by Lizzie Driver 4.3
The Talisman is a gripping tale set near the end of the Third Crusade. King Richard the Lionheart is grievously ill, and all around him the …

Can You Forgive Her?

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
“Can You Forgive Her?” is the first in a series of six Trollope novels dealing broadly with 19th Century English political scene. It introdu…

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The story centers on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this un…

Through Russian Snows

by G. A. Henty Read by Gary Olman 4.4
There are few campaigns that, either in point of the immense scale upon which it was undertaken, the completeness of its failure, or the eno…

Villette

by Charlotte Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where…

The Turn Of The Tide

by Eleanor H. Porter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
"What a joy! How exciting!" Margret Kendall returned home, to her loving and equally beloved mother's arms after 4 years in the sl…

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607. It was first printed…

The Curse of Carne's Hold

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
When Ronald Mervyn from Devonshire is falsely accused of murder he emigrates to South Africa. He takes part in the Kaffir war and during thi…

Titus

by Florence Morse Kingsley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Titus: A Comrade of the cross is a book full of suspense and drama, but more importantly truth. It is about Titus, a young man living in the…

A Dance With Demons

by Jeff Offringa Read by Jeff Offringa 4.3
Tarn Nohmal doesn't want much out of life. Food on the table, a roof over his head, and privacy. But when his old commander shows up and nee…

Uncle's Dream

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by Greg Giordano 4.6
Uncle’s Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was written following his five year exile to Siberia where he was sent to serve in a hard labor camp. F…

Oblomov

by Ivan Goncharov Read by Kevin W. Davidson 4.7
Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the nove…

The Hidden Institute

by Brand Gamblin Read by Brand Gamblin 4.6
Rising above your station can be deadly. Cliffy is a child born on the streets of a Neo-Victorian world. Witnesses to a murder, he blackmai…

The Crimson Cryptogram

by Fergus Hume Read by Don W. Jenkins 4.1
Young Dr Ellis, a struggling new physician, is enjoying a quiet evening smoking and enjoying conversation with his journalist friend Cass, w…

The Covered Wagon

by Emerson Hough Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
"Look at 'em come, Jesse! More and more! Must be forty or fifty families." This is an old-fashioned adventure tale set on the Oreg…

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