Historical Fiction

The Randolphs

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.8
The Randolphs continues the journey of the Randolph family, picking up shortly after the events of Household Puzzles. This Christian fiction…

The Warden

by Anthony Trollope Read by Nick Whitley 4.7
The Warden is the first novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", making fun of the Church of E…

A Girl of the Limberlost

by Gene Stratton-Porter Read by Patience Charles 4.6
Set in the Limberlost swamp of Indiana, A Girl of the Limberlost follows Elnora Comstock through struggles and triumphs as she seeks educati…

The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.2
It is the noon hour at a museum in New York City. The date: May 23, 1913. The weekday, attendance is light; the attendees are scattered betw…

Wyllard's Weird

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by Lynne T 4.6
A novel written in three volumes. In the golden age of steam, the London train wends its way across the Tamar into the strange and mystic la…

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens Read by Peter John Keeble 4.9
Bleak house is one of Dickens finest achievements. It was written for serialisation in 1853 when Dickens was at the peak of his career. Mont…

Miss Maitland, Private Secretary

by Geraldine Bonner Read by Holly Jenson 4.4
Semi-retired sleuth Molly Morgenthau Babbitts goes undercover as a governess to investigate a robbery at the aristocratic Janney mansion on …

The Cross Brand

by Max Brand Read by David Wales 4.5
Jack Bristol shot the sheriff and stole his horse. He rode off, not into the sunset, but into the mountains. The mountain man held him cap…

Gold

by Stewart Edward White Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.7
This is a well written story of the California gold rush of 1849. Four friends decide they are going to go to California and get rich in the…

The Marriage of William Ashe

by Mary Augusta Ward Read by Simon Evers 4.6
William Ashe, an up and coming politician, impulsively marries Kitty, a young, flighty and strange girl who, far from supporting her husband…

Castle Richmond

by Anthony Trollope Read by Simon Evers 4.5
Set against the background of the Irish famine in the 1840’s, the novel tells of the tangled relationships between Clara Desmond, Herbert Fi…

A Mating in the Wilds

by Ottwell Binns Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.6
An adventure tale set in the North Woods. Stane, a former convict in England, has established a lonely life as a trapper in the north woods.…

A Little Country Girl

by Susan Coolidge Read by Lynne T 4.6
Candace makes the first long trip of her young life alone. Everything is new, from the ocean views, to the fashionable people she encounters…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by MaryAnn 4.8
I am inclined to rank Count Tolstoy not among the realists or naturalists, but rather as an impressionist. He is often careless about accur…

Ride Proud, Rebel!

by Andre Norton Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
Drew Rennie, served as a cavalry scout in Confederate general John Hunt Morgan's command. He had left home in 1862 after a final break with …

In the Midst of Life

by Ambrose Bierce Read by David Wales 4.6
These stories detail the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. This is the 1909 edition. The 1909 edition omits six…

The Opal Serpent

by Fergus Hume Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.5
An old pawnbroker is found strangled with his lips pinned together with an opal serpent broach. He has a beautiful daughter who is apparentl…

The Sword of Damocles

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Mary Bard 4.6
Anna Katharine Green is best known as one of the first women detective writers, and The Sword of Damocles, first published in 1881, does ind…

Hide and Seek

by Wilkie Collins Read by Anna Simon 4.6
The artist Valentine Blyth has a very generous heart. He lovingly cares for his invalid wife, rescues a deaf orphan girl from maltreatment i…

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son. She lives…

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