Historical Fiction

Lin McLean

by Owen Wister Read by David Wales 4.5
Lin McLean follows the life of a young cowboy navigating the rugged landscape of the Wyoming territory before it achieved statehood. Through…

A Lady of Quality

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by Linda Andrus 4.1
A Lady of Quality transports listeners to late 17th-century England, where the life of a spirited woman unfolds against a backdrop of societ…

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,…

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…

The Old English Baron

by Clara Reeve Read by MaryAnn 4.4
The story follows the adventures of Sir Philip Harclay, who returns to medieval England to find that the castle seat and estate of his frien…

The Little Duke

by Charlotte Mary Yonge Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
The Little Duke tells the captivating story of Richard, the young Duke of Normandy, who ascends to his title at the tender age of eight foll…

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Follows the fortunes of the son of a noble Saxon family in Norman England as he woos his lady, disobeys his father, and is loved by another.…

The Brethren

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Abigail Rasmussen 4.8
Set in the days of the Crusaders, this books tells of a young maiden named Rosamund, and her twin cousins. Godwin is the grey eyed thoughtfu…

Children of the Ghetto

by Israel Zangwill Read by Adrian Praetzellis 4.8
In this 1892 novel of London's Jewish East End, Israel Zangwill sets the apparently irrational and decidedly indecorous religious practices …

Plain Tales from the Hills

by Rudyard Kipling Read by Mike Harris 4.6
Plain Tales from the Hills is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling, set against the backdrop of British India during the height …

Pauline's Passion and Punishment

by Louisa May Alcott Read by Elizabeth Klett 4
Before she wrote Little Women and Little Men, Louisa, writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, had this `blood and thunder' thriller (as sh…

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
In Part 2, Kitty’s health deteriorates from regret and heartbreak, while Levin retreats to his country estate. Anna and Vronsky continue to …

Redburn

by Herman Melville Read by James K. White 4.5
Melville wrote of some of his earliest experiences at sea in the story of Wellingborough Redburn, a wet-behind-the-ears youngster whose head…

The Dragon Of Wantley

by Owen Wister Read by David Wales 4.5
A novel, The Dragon of Wantley, was written by Owen Wister (best known as the author of The Virginian) in 1892. Published by Lipincott Press…

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens Read by Peter John Keeble 4.8
Great Expectations is written in the first person and is virtually a fictional autobiography of “Pip” from his childhood, through often pain…

Henry Dunbar

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
In this novel by Victorian sensationalist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry Dunbar returns to England after a 30-year exile to India for committ…

Doctor Izard

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Lee Smalley 4.4
The opening scene takes place in a hospital ward where two patients lie, apparently dying, when a man enters and offers a proposition to one…

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 Doings of Raffles Haw

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Patrick Wells 4.4
The people of the small town of Tamfield are not used to exciting things happening. When millionaire Raffles Haw moves to town, rumors sprea…

As We Forgive Them

by William Le Queux Read by Tom Weiss 4.5
Gilbert Greenwood and Reginald Seton are bachelors who share a flat on Great Russell Street. Neither are especially prosperous but through e…

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