Historical Fiction

Wisdom's Daughter

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H. Rider Haggard


A strange manuscript in an unknown language is found among the effects of the late Professor Horace Holly. Its translator discovers that whi…

Antic Hay

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Aldous Huxley


The epigram to this work from Christoher Marlowe applies to the plot of this story: "My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns / Shall wi…

We Were There at the Normandy Invasion

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Clayton Knight


D-Day: 6 June 1944. The date of the invasion of the Normandy Coast of France by the Allies. This novel gives a different look at that invasi…

Dulcibel

Read by Elaine Webb


Henry Peterson


Dulcibel is a young, pretty and kind-hearted fictional character charged with Witchcraft during the infamous Salem Witch trials. During this…

Ticonderoga; A Story of Early Frontier Life in the Mohawk Valley

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George Payne Rainsford James


In the backwoods, lives a man and his two teenage children. He has sought the quiet life on the frontier, although he is a friend to all and…

The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 5: The Countess of Charny

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Alexandre Dumas


This 5th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins after the fall of the Bastille and the March on Versailles, which forced Louis XVI a…

Die Ahnen - Die Geschwister

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Gustav Freytag


Die fünfte Erzählung 'Die Geschwister' ist in sich zweigeteilt und behandelt die Geschichte zweier Militärpersonen aus der Fa…

The Courtship of Susan Bell

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Anthony Trollope


Susan lives with her overbearing sister in a boarding house in Saratoga Springs run by their timid mother. A knock on the door brings an une…

The Charterhouse of Parma

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Stendhal


In an astounding act of literary improvisation, Stendhal dictated this complex and innovative novel, combining political and psychological r…

The Young Visiters

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Daisy Ashford


The Young Visiters is a comic romance novella that parodies upper class society of late Victorian England. Social climber Alfred Salteena in…

The Dream: a novel

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H. G. Wells


The story is set in a Utopian future. On an excursion, Sarnac, relates his vivid dream to his friends and recounts how he lived the entire l…

Saxon and Norman

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Amice Macdonell


Edward the Confessor is very weak and will die soon. But with no son to succeed him, who will gain the throne? The common folk and loyal Sax…

Redgauntlet

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Sir Walter Scott


Redgauntlet is an historical novel about a fictitious third Jacobite rebellion. It takes place mostly in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in 1765. I…

The Northern Spy

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J. Thomas Warren


The Northern Spy, written in the 1800s, is a lively story about a Union soldier who infiltrates a Confederate battalion in order to aid in …

The Indian Corn Planter

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E. Pauline Johnson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Indian Corn Planter by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 2…

The Boy Scouts in Front of Warsaw; Or, In the Wake of War

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George Durston


The boy scouts are at it again! The war in Warsaw, Poland was devastating and led to many broken families. When the beloved children of the …

Faraon (tom 3)

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Bolesław Prus


Młody Ramzes XIII obejmuje panowanie nad Egiptem, jednak jego wrogowie nie śpią, a jego sprzymierzeńcy chcą nim manipulować. Sam faraon też …

Regiment of Women

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Clemence Dane


Set in a small town in Edwardian England, Regiment of Women is about the relationship between two teachers at a private (and elitist) girls'…

A Set of Six

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Joseph Conrad


Each of the stories in this collection is spun from a simple, if typically wry and bleak, idea. In "Gaspar Ruiz", a South American…

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