Historical Fiction

Jewish Children

by שלום עליכם Sholem Aleichem Read by Adrian Praetzellis 4.7
Although written from a child's perspective, this is not a kids book but a series of funny, poignant, and sometimes disturbing stories about…

Waverley

by Sir Walter Scott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or…

Eirik the Red's Saga

by William James McGlothlin Read by Julian Jamison 4.5
In this saga, the events that led to Eirik the Red's banishment to Greenland are chronicled, as well as Leif Eirikson's discovery of Vinland…

Dracula

by Bram Stoker Read by Peter John Keeble 4.7
Dracula as written by Bram Stoker in 1897 was not the first depiction of vampires and other such creatures, Gothic horror stories had been a…

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…

Daniel Boone

by Reuben Gold Thwaites Read by William Tomcho 4.5
Daniel Boone was a great hunter, explorer, surveyor, and excellent rifleman; he knew Indians and fought them skillfully. His life was filled…

The Yellow House

by E. Phillips Oppenheim Read by Sharon Kilmer 4.3
In a tranquil country village, a vicar and his two daughters seek a fresh start, only to find their new neighbor in the enigmatic yellow hou…

The Odyssey

by Homer Read by Mark Nelson 4.8
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other Homeric epic.…

Ben Hur

by Lew Wallace Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
In this dramatic reading of the classic epic Ben Hur, rediscover the wonder of three wise men who travel through the wilderness together. Th…

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London Read by Phil Chenevert 4.8
The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period…

The Romance of the Forest

by Ann Radcliffe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
A Gothic novel famously mentioned by Jane Austen in "Northanger Abbey" as an inspiration for the romantic ideals and supernatural …

The Mill Mystery

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Jacquerie 3.9
In the quiet New England village of S--, a young and beloved minister is found dead, ignominiously drowned in a dye vat in a dilapidated mil…

Toothless

by J.P. Moore Read by J.P. Moore 4.4
J. P. Moore's 2009 podcast reinvented the zombie apocalypse, taking it where it had never gone before! Hailed as brutal, dark, and brilliant…

A Desert Drama

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by David Wales 4.4
Also published under the title The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898). A group of European tourists are enjoying their trip to Egypt in the year …

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 4.7
Treasure Island is an adventure novel narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Traditionally considered a coming-of-age s…

The Terrible Business of Salmon & Dusk

by Myke Bartlett Read by Myke Bartlett 4.5
Theo Braithwaite, failed actress and worse waitress, is a stranger to London. In a single day, she loses her job, her boyfriend and quite po…

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…

Uncle's Dream

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by Greg Giordano 4.6
Uncle’s Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was written following his five year exile to Siberia where he was sent to serve in a hard labor camp. F…

Words At War

by Hilary Aidan Saint George Saunders, Clark Lee, Boris Voyetekhov, Ralph Parker, C.S. Forester, Robert St. John, Gwen Dew, Charles Spalding, Otis Carney, George Beurling, Leslie Roberts, Fred Herman, Margaret Buell Wilder, Jean Helion, Agnes Smedley, Mark Murphy, Etta Shiber, Corey Ford, Frederick B. Watt, Ernie Pyle, John Mason Brown, Michael Padev, Herbert L. Matthews, Harry Edward Maule, Carlos Peña Romulo, Frank Laskier, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Otto Zoff, Tai-yi Lin, Frederick J. Bell, Robert Goffin, Rackham Holt, Taro Yashima, Selden Menefee, Vicki Baum, George W. Gray, Konrad Heiden, John Hersey, Anna Louise Strong, Vercors, Lawrance Roger Thompson, H. E. Bates, George Creel, Donald Hough, Bernt Balchen, James Norman Hall, Robert Parker, Curt Riess, Lion Feuchtwanger, Willard Waller, Captain Don S. Gentile, Agnes Meyer, Robert Nathan, Jack Belden, Tom Treanor, Kent Cooper, Barbara Klaw, Captain Alfred Friendly, Marie Syrkin, Albert Maltz, Kenneth M. Gould, Oscar Ray, Jan Karski, Louis Nizer, Walter Karig, Welbourn Kelley, Ellwood C. Nance, Wanda Wasilewska, William Bradford Huie, Elliott Arnold, Jim Phelan, William Beveridge, Glenway Wescott, Lionel S. B. Shapiro, Egon Hostovsky, Friedrich A. Hayek, Harry Lever, Joseph Young, George K. Pratt and Russell Davenport 4.7
The NBC program Words At War is a captivating old-time radio series that explores the impact of World War II through dramatizations based on…

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…

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