Historical Fiction

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
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 Belton Estate

by Anthony Trollope Read by Kirsten Wever 4.6
Clara Amedroz is the virtuous, intelligent, and quick-witted heroine of this novel. Like all women of her time, she has few options other th…

Isobel

by James Oliver Curwood Read by Roger Melin 4.7
Action, intrigue, and a touch of romance in the farthest reaches of northern Canada. Sergeant Billy MacVeigh of the Canadian Northwest Mount…

Buried Alive

by Arnold Bennett Read by Simon Evers 4.7
The hero is Mr Priam Farll, a painter of considerable ability. He is, however, extremely shy – so shy that when his valet, Henry Leek, dies …

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy Read by Tadhg 4.6
Eleven-year-old Jude Fawley, inspired by his teacher Mr. Phillotson, who leaves Marygreen for Christminster to take a university degree, dec…

The Herapath Property

by J. S. Fletcher Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.3
Jacob Herapath, a wealthy property developer and member of Parliament, is found dead in his office, a revolver at his side and a bullet woun…

Mr. Harrison's Confessions

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by NoelBadrian 4.6
It is asserted that the inspiration for Elizabeth Gaskell's marvellous stories of Cranford was her childhood home of Knutsford, a small tow…

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain Read by Phil Chenevert 4.9
Follow the young boy Huckleberry Finn and the slave Jim on their epic journey down the Mississippi River in the years before the Civil War. …

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son. She lives…

The Tiger of Mysore

by G. A. Henty Read by Mike Harris 4.8
During the Indian war with Tippoo Saib, 15 year old Dick Holland and his mother set out from England to find and rescue his father, shipwrec…

The Forsaken Inn

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
Told from the perspective of a Mrs. Truax, the owner of an inn during the time of the American and French Revolutions, "The Forsaken In…

That Lass o' Lowrie's

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by Phil Benson 4.8
Frances Hodgson Burnett was born and grew up in Manchester, England, and emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 16. Fo…

Winning His Spurs

by G. A. Henty Read by Jennifer Gasiecki 4.7
Set in the late twelfth century during the Third Crusade, the Norman Conquest having occurred not much more than a hundred years ago, Winnin…

The Rain-Girl

by Herbert George Jenkins Read by Anna Simon 4.5
Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he…

Marie

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Peter John Keeble 4.8
This is a superb sweeping romantic adventure story of how Alan Quatermain, hero of fourteen of Rider H Haggard's books, met, fell in love wi…

The Call Of The Canyon

by Zane Grey Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.5
Glenn Kilbourne returns from the war and travels to Arizona to regain his health. There he is nursed back to health by an Arizona girl, Flo …

Cousin Betty

by Honoré de Balzac Read by Bruce Pirie 4.6
Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette), published in serial format in 1846, was one of the last and greatest of Balzac's works. It was part of his …

The Avenger

by E. Phillips Oppenheim Read by Tom Weiss 4.3
Herbert Wrayson, a bachelor returns to his flat one night to find a young lady rifling his desk. He questions her and finds she thought she …

The Sword of Damocles

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Mary Bard 4.6
Anna Katharine Green is best known as one of the first women detective writers, and The Sword of Damocles, first published in 1881, does ind…

Miss Mackenzie

by Anthony Trollope Read by Kirsten Wever 4.5
The thirty-five year-old (hence utterly over-the-hill) Miss Margaret Mackenzie, having devoted her life to others, suddenly finds herself wi…

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