Historical Fiction

Conjuror's House, a Romance of the Free Forest

Read by Roger Melin


Stewart Edward White


In the northern outreaches of the Canadian wilderness, it was understood that the Hudson Bay Company governed all trading, and one factor na…

The Children of the New Forest

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Frederick Marryat


The children of Colonel Beverley, a Cavalier officer killed at the Battle of Naseby are believed to have died in the flames when their house…

The Conjure Woman

Read by James K. White


Charles Waddell Chesnutt


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 Eustace Diamonds

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Anthony Trollope


Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace, is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. Wh…

Three Soldiers

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John Dos Passos


Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First Worl…

La Tulipe noire

Read by Ezwa


Alexandre Dumas


Si ce titre évoque pour vous un roman de cape et d'épée, détrompez-vous. Mais ne vous détournez pas !Ce c…

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'

Read by Jason Mills


William Hope Hodgson


Eighteenth-century sailors adrift in a lifeboat encounter strange lands and weird creatures in their search for home. A creepy tale of nauti…

The Tavern Knight

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Rafael Sabatini


Follow the exploits of Sir Crispin Galliard, also known as The Tavern Knight, in his defence of the King of England against Cromwell and his…

The Sword of Antietam

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Joseph A. Altsheler


"The Sword of Antietam" tells a complete story, but it is one in the chain of Civil War romances, begun in "The Guns of Bull …

Johnny Reb and Billy Yank

Read by Barry Eads


Alexander Hunter


Johnny Reb & Billy Yank is an epic novel first published in 1905 by Alexander Hunter, a soldier who served in Confederate General Robert…

Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California

Read by Rachel


G. A. Henty


When young Frank is falsely accused of a crime, he leaves England to seek adventure in America. He joins a wagon train heading west to the C…

Children of the Ghetto

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Israel Zangwill


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

The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

Read by Phil Chenevert


Ambrose Bierce


A tragic but very captivating tale of a monk in the 17th century.

More Tish

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote 6 books about the elderly Letitia (Tish) Carberry and the escapades she gets her elderly lady cronies into. The…

Fast in the Ice

Read by Esther


R. M. Ballantyne


At the age of 16 Ballantyne went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. His rule in writing, being in every…

Last Days of Pompeii

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton


Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culmi…

Los Miserables: Tomo III

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Victor Hugo


En este tercer volumen aparece Marius. Mario es criado por su abuelo, éste le hace creer que su padre, un coronel del ejército…

At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War

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G. A. Henty


The story of the war in which the power of the great Mahratta confederacy was broken ended in the firm establishment of the British Empire t…

The Great Gold Rush: A Tale of the Klondike

Read by Cate Barratt


William Henry Pope Jarvis


Canadian journalist William Jarvis' gently fictionalized work recounts many of the countless fascinating tales of the Klondike Gold Rush in …

Uli der Knecht

Read by Hans Hafen


Jeremias Gotthelf


Der Roman Uli der Knecht von Jeremias Gotthelf (1797-1854) erschien 1841. Es handelt sich formal um einen pikaresk angelegten Roman. Die Epi…

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