Historical Fiction

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…

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 …

One of the 28th

by G. A. Henty Read by Mike Harris 4.7
One of the 28th transports listeners to the tumultuous era of the Napoleonic Wars, where valor and romance intertwine amidst the chaos of ba…

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…

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens Read by Peter John Keeble 4.8
Nicholas Nickleby was Dickens's third novel following on from Pickwick Papers and Oliver twist. It has a cast of wonderful characters that i…

The Emperor's Candlesticks

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by Kevin Green 4.6
When a group of Russian anarchists kidnap a Russian prince in Vienna there are repercussions. On learning that the Cardinal d'Orsay has agre…

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 Long, Long Trail

by Max Brand Read by David Wales 4.4
A willful flirtatious girl; a morose family; a dark, mysterious, and (to some) alluring man; lots of horses, guns, honor, love, courage, and…

The Mayor's Wife

by Anna Katharine Green Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Miss Saunders is out for an adventure. One, which is full of secrets, hints, and half-lies. One, which will require all of her wits. She is …

The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet

by Burton Egbert Stevenson Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
Three men are dead. Killed by a very powerful poison. Their deaths seem to be connected to a very old cabinet purchased in France and a noto…

The Guns of Shiloh

by Joseph A. Altsheler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Northern Army has just be handed a great defeat at Bull Run and is headed back to Washington, DC. How will the North answer this defeat?…

The Hand of Ethelberta

by Thomas Hardy Read by Simon Evers 4.5
Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but became a governess and consequently, at the age of 18, married well. However, her husband …

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens Read by Mil Nicholson 4.9
In one of Charles Dickens’ most beloved stories, Philip Pirrip, known as “Pip”, narrates his own journey, from the hindsight of 50 years.Pip…

The U.P. Trail

by Zane Grey Read by Bob R 4.4
Grey's story of the struggles to build the Union Pacific Railroad in the late 1860's. Typical western characters, but placed in a factual se…

The Valley of the Moon

by Jack London Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.7
The novel Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-th…

Rilla of Ingleside

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Anne of Green Gables is all grown up and married, and this is the story of her daughter “Rilla”, named for the indomitable Marilla Cuthbert …

The Deerslayer

by James Fenimore Cooper Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Deerslayer is a captivating tale set in the early 18th century, chronicling the adventures of Natty Bumppo, a young frontiersman known f…

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…

Men of Iron

by Howard Pyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle is historical fiction that transports us back to the 1400's, a time of knighthood and chivalry. Myles Falworth is…

The Man Who Fell Through the Earth

by Carolyn Wells Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
A lawyer is leaving his office on the top floor of an office building. He sees the shadows of two men fighting through the clouded glass of …

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