Historical Fiction

Kissyman and The Gentleman

by Scott Sigler Read by Scott Sigler 4.4
New York City, 1946. No one knows his real name, but when the job is too dirty, too dangerous, you call Kissyman. Once he was an elite Nazi …

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

by Giacomo Casanova Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Giacomo Casanova (April 2, 1725 in Venice – June 4, 1798, in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, wr…

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
This story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns a Huron massacre (with passive French a…

The Ballad of Iron Percy

by Edward Clark Read by Edward Clark 4.5
It has been twenty years since the island nation of Great Hale conquered the New World and became an empire. Lord Percival Wilmore, the Hero…

Prophecy of Swords

by M.H. Bonham Read by M.H. Bonham 3.4
To end a war, nearly a thousand years ago a great warrior named Lachlan sought to unify his people, using the power of the Three Swords of D…

Through the Fray

by G. A. Henty Read by GabrielleC 3.6
Ned Sankey is a quick-tempered, strong-willed boy during the Luddite riots in Yorkshire. The happy times at the beginning of the story are s…

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
When a rough old seaman calling himself "the Captain" appears at the inn owned by Jim Hawkins' father, young Jim little dreams wha…

Beowulf

by Unknowntranslated Byfrancis Barton Gummere, Translated Byfrancis Barton Gummere and Unknowntranslated By Francis Barton Gummere Read by Tad E. 4.2
Beowulf is a monumental epic poem that captures the heroic deeds of its titular character, a warrior of great strength and valor. Set in the…

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald 4.1
Language: EnglishThe Great Gatsby follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the sum…

The Black Experience in America

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 2.9
This is not the copyrighted work by Norman Coombs currently on Project Gutenberg but a collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, an…

Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by Woolly Bee 4.6
Matthew and Marilla make plans to adopt a boy to help with farm chores but because of a mistake, Matthew finds a girl waiting at the train s…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
The desolate, treacherous Devon moors. A bloodcurdling legend of a ghastly hound from hell, haunting the Baskerville family for generations.…

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.2
The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town …

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Read by Tony Oliva 3.6
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Vicente Blasco Ibañez and translated into English by Charlotte Brewster Jordan, depicts two b…

The Lost House

by Richard Harding Davis Read by Crln Yldz Ksr 3.8
Austin Ford, the London correspondent of the New York Republic, is spending some idle time in the American Embassy chatting with the Second …

The Odysseys of Homer

by Homer Read by Phil Schempf 4
The Odysseys are a collection of stories about Ulysses' journey home from the war at Troy purportedly written in the 8th century BCE by Home…

Les Miserables

by Victor Hugo Read by Orson Welles 4.6
Recorded in 1937, Les Miserables is a powerful adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel. Translated variously from French as The Miserable …

Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley 4.6
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. The title of the novel refers to a scientist …

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by Tony Addison 3.7
Described as the Great Book of Wonders by Arthur Miller, this everyday tale of fraternal affection, sibling rivalry, obsession, lust, parric…

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