Historical Fiction

The Pretty Lady

by Arnold Bennett Read by Simon Evers 4.1
‘The Pretty Lady’ is considered to be one of Bennett's most revealing and under-rated works. It is the story of a French prostitute, Christi…

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe Read by Larraine Paquette 4.6
This is a deeply moving novel centered around the lives of Uncle Tom and others and which very effectively portrays the suffering caused by …

The Lost Girl

by D. H. Lawrence Read by Tony Foster 4.3
"There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl. She was cut off from everything she belonged to."In this most under-valued …

The Star of Gettysburg

by Joseph A. Altsheler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Army of Northern Virginia, still victorious after three hard years of fighting, capitalize on their victories at Fredericksburg and Chan…

The Swoop!

by P. G. Wodehouse Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021) 4
The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies — "England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. I…

Ann Veronica

by H. G. Wells Read by Joy Chan 4.4
Ann Veronica was a controversial book detailing the development of a naive school girl into a "New Woman". When it was published, …

Sister Simon's Murder Case

by Margaret Ann Hubbard Read by Maria Therese 4.2
Set in the picturesque wilds of a Midwestern resort town at the height of the tourist season, Sister Simon’s Murder case begins with the mur…

Colonel Thorndyke's Secret

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Intrigue, murder, highwaymen... A British soldier serving in India has stolen a diamond bracelet from a Hindu idol. The bracelet comes into …

Eric Brighteyes

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Brett W. Downey 4.4
The Saga of Eric Brighteyes is the title of an epic viking novel by H. Rider Haggard, and concerns the adventures of its eponymous principal…

The Daughter of the Commandant

by Alexander Pushkin Read by Kevin W. Davidson 4.6
"The Daughter of the Commandant" (better known as "The Captain's Daughter") is a historical novel by the Russian writer …

Demian

by Hermann Hesse Read by Michele Fry 4.6
Somewhat autobiographical, this "coming of age" novel unfolds an introspective boy's formative years in pre-World War 1 Germany, f…

Into the Woods

by David Wood Read by David Wood 4.4
Set against the backdrop of colonial America, Into the Woods is the story of pioneer and patriot Jonathan Wood. Straining against the bonds …

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy Read by Alisson Veldhuis 4.7
Tess of the d'Urbervilles subtitled, "A Pure Woman," is the story of a young working woman named Tess Durbeyfield who is sent by h…

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England. S…

Beric the Briton

by G. A. Henty Read by Gary Olman 4.4
My series of stories dealing with the wars of England would be altogether incomplete did it not include the period when the Romans were the …

Hagar of the Pawn-Shop

by Fergus Hume Read by Grant Hurlock 4.4
Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly Lo…

The Corsican Brothers

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Alexandre Dumas weaves the compelling story of Siamese twins who are separated physically but never in spirit. When one of the brothers is m…

A Spinner in the Sun

by Myrtle Reed Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and enterta…

The Conjure Woman

by Charles Waddell Chesnutt Read by James K. White 4.5
Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt's first book, The Conjure Woman, was a collection of seven short stories, all set in "P…

The Black Arrow

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The Black Arrow tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of the Roses: how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sed…

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