Historical Fiction

El Dorado

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by Karen Savage 4.8
In El Dorado, Baroness Emma Orczy continues the thrilling escapades of the enigmatic hero known as the Scarlet Pimpernel. Set against the ba…

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 …

The Dragon and the Raven

by G. A. Henty Read by Mike Harris 4.7
During the reign of King Alfred, Danish forces have invaded the English countryside. Although the English try to repulse these attacks, they…

Anthony Trent, Master Criminal

by Wyndham Martyn Read by Anna Simon 4.8
In 1918, Anthony Trent, a well-educated young man in his late twenties, lives an unsatisfactory life in a New York boarding house. He writes…

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 Pathfinder

by James Fenimore Cooper Read by Mark F. Smith 4.6
Natty Bumppo goes by many names: La Longue Carabine, Hawk Eye, Leatherstocking, and in this tale, The Pathfinder. Guide, scout, hunter, and …

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 Benefactress

by Elizabeth Von Arnim Read by Helen Taylor 4.4
Anna Estcourt, twenty-five and beautiful, is the penniless ward of her distant brother and his exasperating wife. Turning down all offers of…

The People of the Black Circle

by Robert E. Howard Read by Mark Nelson 4.6
"The People of the Black Circle" is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. H…

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…

The Spirit of the Border

by Zane Grey Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) 4.6
This is an early novel by the phenomenally successful author of frontier, western and sports stories. It deals with historical characters an…

A Prairie-Schooner Princess

by Mary Katherine Maule Read by Sharon Kilmer 4.7
The story of a Quaker family's journey from Ohio to Nebraska beginning in 1856. They encounter a mystery which leaves them an orphan girl wh…

Diary of a U-boat Commander

by Stephen King-Hall Read by Mark F. Smith 4.6
Captain Karl von Schenk of the Kaiser's Navy is a stereotypical German nobleman - supremely self-confident, touchy about the divisions of cl…

Ashton-Kirk, Investigator

by John Thomas Mcintyre Read by Pete Milan 4.5
Ashton-Kirk, who has solved so many mysteries, is himself something of a problem even to those who know him best. Although young, wealthy, a…

The Outlaw of Torn

by Edgar Rice Burroughs Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The story is set in 13th century England and concerns the fictitious outlaw Norman of Torn, who purportedly harried the country during the p…

Mary Barton

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by Tony Foster 4.8
"Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life" was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuou…

Miss Frances Baird, Detective

by Reginald Wright Kauffman Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.4
Frances Baird is a detective with the Watkins Agency of New York City. She and a colleague are sent undercover to "The Maples" to…

Deep Lake Mystery

by Carolyn Wells Read by Roger Melin 4.3
Imagine, if you will, a murder committed in a sealed room. A room which has been sealed from the inside, that is, with no possible means of …

The Silent Barrier

by Louis Tracy Read by Mary Herndon Bell 4.5
Charles K. Spencer is a well-to-do young American mining engineer. Drinking his water in a hotel in London one day, he overhears a conversat…

The Eyes Of The World

by Harold Bell Wright Read by Tom Weiss 4.7
The Eyes of the World was the Best Selling Book for 1914 according to Publisher's Weekly. The novel explores what Harold Bell Wright views a…

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