Historical Fiction

The Semi-Attached Couple

by Emily Eden Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.6
Young and beautiful Helen Eskdale and fabulously wealthy Lord Teviot seem to be the perfect match. But when they marry, they find that misun…

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…

The Virginian

by Owen Wister Read by MichelleHarris 4.5
Ostensibly a love story, the novel really revolves around a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War in 1890's Wyoming ... The …

Scarhaven Keep

by J. S. Fletcher Read by Cate Barratt 4.5
Set against the rugged beauty of the northern English sea coast, Scarhaven Keep weaves a tale of mystery and intrigue. When a sudden disappe…

Burning Daylight

by Jack London Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.7
Burning Daylight, Jack London's fictional novel published in 1910, was one of the best selling books of that year and it was his best sellin…

The Young Trailers

by Joseph A. Altsheler Read by A. E. Maroney 4.7
This is the story of Henry Ware, a young boy living in the wilds of the Kentucky frontier of the 1700's. The story follows Henry as he helps…

Anne of the Island

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
In Anne of the Island, the third installment of Lucy Maud Montgomery's beloved series, Anne Shirley embarks on a new chapter of her life as …

A Silent Witness

by R. Austin Freeman Read by Anna Simon 4.6
In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon a corpse during a walk near Hampstead Heath in the middle of the ni…

The Dust Flower

by Basil King Read by Simon Evers 4.6
Rashleigh Allerton, a wealthy New Yorker, quarrels with his well-to-do fiancée Barbara and impetuously says that he will marry instea…

The Gloved Hand

by Burton Egbert Stevenson Read by Don W. Jenkins 4.5
Mr. Lester, a private investigator, and his friend Godfrey are caught up in a strange case that takes them to a large estate in the country …

Eleanor's Victory

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by Eleanor Howard 4.6
Only 15-years-old, Eleanor Vane is very happy with her lot: educated in an expensive finishing school in Paris, the apple of her father's ey…

Ravensdene Court

by J. S. Fletcher Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.5
Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court…

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope Read by Nick Whitley 4.7
Barchester Towers, published in 1857, is the 2nd novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". It f…

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe Read by John Greenman 4.8
Among the most “banned” books in the United States, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beeche…

The Holladay Case

by Burton Egbert Stevenson Read by Cate Barratt 4.5
Stevenson's introduction of the protagonist Lester (law clerk with New York firm Graham & Royce) finds him occupying a front row seat in…

Miranda

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by TriciaG 4.5
The third book in the Marcia Schuyler/Miranda trilogy, this story focuses on the irrepressible Miranda Griscom. She has repeatedly rejected …

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens Read by Mil Nicholson 4.9
"Please sir, I want some more," the famous line spoken by Oliver Twist at age nine, becomes the tipping point of a huge change in …

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas Read by Mark F. Smith 4.8
D’Artagnan, son of a poor Gascon aristocrat, travels to Paris to seek his fortune. His family connections enable him to obtain a position in…

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy Read by Bruce Pirie 4.7
Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to a stranger. Thus begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in rural …

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfol…

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