Historical Fiction

The Mark of Zorro

by Johnston Mcculley Read by Mark F. Smith 4.8
In Spanish California, a troubling pattern had developed. The natives were reduced to peasants, the Franciscan friars that ministered to the…

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.7
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court transports readers from 19th-century America to the legendary realm of Camelot, where the clash …

The Custom of the Country

by Edith Wharton Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.6
Edith Wharton's 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional M…

The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation

by J. S. Fletcher Read by MaryAnn 4.6
Marshall Allerdyke is driving through the night from London to Hull in response to an urgent telegram from his cousin. As he nears Hull, a …

The Big Blue Soldier

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by LikeManyWaters 4.5
Back from the Great War, a penniless and disillusioned young soldier finds himself in the home of Miss Marilla Chadwick, a sweet old lady wh…

The Mysterious Rider

by Zane Grey Read by Mary Bard 4.7
This book has all the elements of a classic Western, including rustling and gunfights, but at its heart is the battle between good and evil,…

The Enchanted April

by Elizabeth Von Arnim Read by Helen Taylor 4.8
Four very different women, with very different reasons for wanting to escape a cold and dreary London, come together to share a month's holi…

The Children of the New Forest

by Frederick Marryat Read by Nick Whitley 4.6
The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is set in the time of the English Civil War …

The Story of a Whim

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by LikeManyWaters 4.6
A group of girls send gifts and letters to one whom they think to be a young woman like them. "Christie" is really a poor young ba…

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy Read by MaryAnn 4.7
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 4, An…

The Dust Flower

by Basil King Read by Simon Evers 4.7
Rashleigh Allerton, a wealthy New Yorker, quarrels with his well-to-do fiancée Barbara and impetuously says that he will marry instea…

He Fell in Love with His Wife

by Edward P. Roe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
James desperately needs someone to help him keep his farm going, but has failure after colossal failure finding a good housekeeper. Alida ma…

Little Men

by Louisa May Alcott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Jo March's dreams of opening a home for boys comes true as she finds herself the mistress of Plumfield, a boarding school for children -- wh…

The Borough Treasurer

by J. S. Fletcher Read by MaryAnn 4.6
Messrs. Mallalieu and Cotherstone were outsiders who had built a prosperous business in Highmarket and even been elected as Mayor and Treasu…

The White Company

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Clive Catterall 4.8
Set during the Hundred Years' War with France, The White Company tells the story of a young Saxon man who is learning what it is to be a kni…

The Black Arrow

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Mark F. Smith 4.7
In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. …

Barnaby Rudge

by Charles Dickens Read by Mil Nicholson 4.8
One of the two Historical novels Charles Dickens wrote, Barnaby Rudge is set around the ‘Gordon’ riots in London in 1780. The story begins i…

Dawn of the Morning

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Fresh from school, mistreated and neglected by her father and stepmother, sixteen-year-old Dawn consents to marry a friend of her father's w…

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 …

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy Read by MaryAnn 4.7
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 8, Vr…

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