Historical Fiction

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, based on true events, concerns the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, his assassination i…

The Return of the Mucker

by Edgar Rice Burroughs Read by Joseph DeNoia 4.2
After being framed for a murder he didn’t commit, law enforcement arrests Billy Byrne…The Mucker… as he returns to the streets of Grand Aven…

The Evil Genius

by Wilkie Collins Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Evil Genius, one of Wilkie Collins' last works, is subtitled "A Domestic Scene". It is the intriguing tale of family Linley, i…

Dead Souls

by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души) by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of …

The House of the Wolfings

by William Morris Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
William Morris was a writer, illustrator and medievalist from the Romantic period and associated with other renowned authors of the time suc…

The Adventures of Buffalo Bill

by William Frederick Cody Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Buffalo Bill was arguably, the most recognized man in the world when he penned this book. The first four stories are of some of his adventur…

The Swoop!

by P. G. Wodehouse Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021) 4
The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies — "England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. I…

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Jane Eyre is a profound exploration of a young woman's journey toward self-discovery and independence. Set in 19th-century England, the nove…

Conjuror's House

by Stewart Edward White Read by Roger Melin 4
In the northern outreaches of the Canadian wilderness, it was understood that the Hudson Bay Company governed all trading, and one factor na…

The Scottish Chiefs

by Jane Porter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Scottish Chiefs is a historical adventure novel that brings to life the legendary figure of William Wallace, a Scottish hero who fought …

Thorstein of the Mere

by William Gershom Collingwood Read by Phil Benson 4.6
A fine adventure set in 10th-century England at a time when everyday life in north was made hazardous by wars and shifting alliances among S…

The Staircase at the Heart's Delight

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Crln Yldz Ksr 3.9
Detective Ebenezer Gryce tells the story of the case with which he begun his career in 1840. Several wealthy men were drowned and washed ash…

Night's Knights

by Emerian Rich Read by Emerian Rich 3.8
Severina is an exotic beauty from the jungles of Brazil whose family is brutally murdered by the same man she later calls lover. Markham is…

Vixen

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
This is an exquisite and heartbreaking love story. Violet Tempest and Roderick Vawdrey, otherwise known to each other as Vixen and Rorie, ar…

Louise de la Valliere

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Set against the backdrop of 17th-century France, Louise de la Vallière continues the saga of the legendary Musketeers, weaving a tale…

The Story of the Romans

by H. A. Guerber Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
The Story of the Romans by H. A. Guerber invites young listeners to explore the rich tapestry of Roman history through engaging narratives. …

The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Ru…

The Saga of Erik the Red

by Unknowntranslated Byarthur Middleton Reeves, Translated Byarthur Middleton Reeves and Unknowntranslated By Arthur Middleton Reeves Read by Expatriate 4.3
The Saga of Erik the Red is one of the two important thirteenth-century accounts of the Norse explorations of Greenland and North America, a…

1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.2
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside invites listeners into a lively and irreverent dialogue set in the Elizabethan era. Mar…

With Frederick The Great

by G. A. Henty Read by Gary Olman 4.1
Among the great wars of history there are few, if any, instances of so long and successfully sustained a struggle, against enormous odds, as…

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