Historical Fiction
Richard of Jamestown: A Story of the Virginia Colony
Read by Laura Caldwell
James Otis
Richard of Jamestown by James Otis was written for children with the purpose to show them the daily home life of the Virginia colonists. It …
'Tilda Jane
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Marshall Saunders
When spunky 'Tilda Jane isn't allowed to keep her beloved dog with her at the orphanage, she decides to set out on her own in search of a ho…
War and Peace, Volume 1 (Maude translation)
Read by Mark Nelson
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy’s epic historical novel chronicling the Napoleonic war in Russia. Considered one of the greatest works of literature of all time…
Windsor Castle, Book 1
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William Harrison Ainsworth
Book 1 - Anne Boleyn. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as h…
The Forty-Five Guardsmen
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
The sequel to "Chicot the Jester" and final book of the "Valois Romances." This story begins six years after the famed &…
Der Heilige
Read by Hans Hafen
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Die Rahmenhandlung der Novelle "Der Heilige" bildet Hans der Armbruster, der im Jahre 1180 im Rückblick die dramatische Leben…
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreord…
Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country
Read by Roger Melin
Irving Bacheller
Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country. Having lost both parents and his home in northern Vermont, orphan Willie Brower is taken in by Eb…
A Tale of Two Cities (Version 5)
Read by Richard Reiman
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities is a novel that views the eighteenth century French Revolution through the lens of nineteenth century…
The Trumpet-Major
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Thomas Hardy
Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments pr…
The Spoilers
Read by Tom Weiss
Rex Beach
Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan to a prominent family and pursued a career as a lawyer before being drawn to Alaska at the time of th…
The Maid of Maiden Lane (dramatic reading)
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Amelia E. Barr
The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Mrs. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in …
Windsor Castle, Book 2
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William Harrison Ainsworth
Book 2 - Herne the Hunter. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn…
The Fortune of the Rougons
Read by Peter Tucker
Émile Zola
The Fortune of the Rougons (French: La Fortune des Rougon), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monument…
Septimus
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
The book concerns the tangled lives of four people: Zora, a young widow who seeks some purpose in her life; Septimus Dix, an other-wordly bu…
The Leopard's Spots
Read by Michele Fry
Thomas Dixon, Jr.
The first in a trilogy of the Reconstruction era - The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907), parts of this no…
Die Ahnen, Bd. I.1 Ingo
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Gustav Freytag
Der Vandalenprinz Ingo wird im Jahre 357 von den Römern aus seiner Heimat am Rhein vertrieben und findet Zuflucht bei einem Gastfreund …
The Reign of King Edward the Third
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William Shakespeare
The Reign of King Edward the Third is an Elizabethan play printed anonymously in 1596. It has frequently been claimed that it was at least p…
Germinal (English )
Read by VfkaBT
Émile Zola
This epic about French coal miners and the burgeoning labor movement is considered one of Zola's finest novels. - Summary by Matt Pierard