Historical Fiction
The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
Read by Lauren Huff
Mary Shelley
After the brutal and turbulent Wars of the Roses, Henry VII reigned over England and the sons of his rival Edward IV, once held captive in t…
Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (version 4)
Read by Mark Leder
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens' fifth published novel is set in the village of Cligwell. Romances are thwarted. A ghost is spotted. A raven speaks. A m…
The Mysterious Aviator (aka So Disdained)
Read by Atul Sharma
Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute was the nom-de-plume of the Anglo-Australian aeronautical engineer and writer, best known for works like “On the Beach” and “A T…
The Lion's Brood
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Duffield Osborne
"Centuries come and go; but the plot of the drama is unchanged, and the same characters play the same parts. Only the actors cast for t…
For The Freedom Of The Seas
Read by Howard Skyman
Ralph Henry Barbour
It is the dawning of World War One and Nelson Troy is young and enthusiastic. Although America is not yet involved in the war effort he drea…
Petticoat Government, Volume 2
Read by Mark Leder
Frances Milton Trollope
The further adventures of young Judith Maitland in the clerical close of Westhampton. - Summary by Mark Leder
Yellow Butterflies
Read by Lee Smalley
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
The title of this historical fiction could as well have been "A Soldier’s Mother" or “An Unknown Soldier”. There are indeed butter…
The House on the Scar
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Bertha Thomas
A superior Victorian Romance. Full from bow to stern with secret romance, jealousies and confrontations of culture and cultures. This autho…
Marriage à la Mode
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
While travelling in the USA, Roger Barnes, a handsome Englishman, meets and falls in love with Daphne Floyd, a rich and determined American.…
The Shagganappi
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E. Pauline Johnson
Tales of adventure in the context of white and first nations peoples interacting in North America, told by Tekahionwake, Haudenosaunee of Si…
Zadig or The Book of Fate (Version 2)
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Voltaire
"there is no Evil under the Sun, but some Good proceeds from it:" -- this quote from this novel sums it up. One of Voltaire's most…
The Fortune of the Rougons, Book One of Rougon-Macquart Cycle (Version 2)
Read by Mark Leder
Émile Zola
The first book in the 20-novel Rougon-Macquart Cycle. A monument of French naturalism. The sprawling tale of a family in Provence, during …
The Gleam in the North
Read by Elin
D. K. Broster
Six years have passed since the failed Jacobite rising of 1745. Ewen Cameron's quiet life on his Scottish Highland estate is threatened when…
One Man's Initiation--1917
Read by Mark Leder
John Dos Passos
In this semi-autobiographical work, his first novel, John Dos Passos describes the experiences of young Martin Howe as an ambulance driver, …
The Fire Spirits
Read by Andy Sames
Paul Busson
An adventure with supernatural overtones, set in the region of The Tyrol During the time of Napoleon. - Summary by Andy Sames
White Cockades: An Incident of the "Forty-Five"
Read by Elin
Edward Prime-Stevenson and Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
In the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite uprising, the young Andrew Boyd meets a fugitive from the redcoats, a man whom Andrew soon grows to ad…
G.T.T., or The Wonderful Adventures of a Pullman
Read by John Greenman
Edward Everett Hale
More than a generation ago, a common joke when an insolvent debtor or any other loafer who had changed his home, wished to leave warning beh…
The Actress in High Life: An Episode in Winter Quarters
Read by Celine Major
Susan Petigru King-Bowen
1812 is the year and Portugal the location for this adventure. The characters for the most part are British officers. Lord Strathern sends f…
The Boy Knight: A Tale Of The Crusades
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G. A. Henty
Follow young Cuthbert on his adventures which lead him on a crusade to the Holy Land and back. - Summary by Sonia
The Flight of the Shadow
Read by Ben Tucker
Laura M. Dake
The original printing of The Flight of the Shadow is a highly sought novel among collectors and tells the tale of an Astral soul who tells a…