Historical Fiction

Kitty Alone

by Sabine Baring-Gould Read by MaryAnn 4.6
Kate Quarm is a bright and sensitive girl. She lives with her aunt and uncle at Coombe Cellers, a farmhouse, eating house and store occupyi…

The Cross Brand

by Max Brand Read by David Wales 4.5
Jack Bristol shot the sheriff and stole his horse. He rode off, not into the sunset, but into the mountains. The mountain man held him cap…

The Gold Bag

by Carolyn Wells Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.3
In a world of wealth and intrigue, a millionaire is found dead in his study, setting off a chain of events that unravels the lives of those …

The Log of a Cowboy

by Andy Adams Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.7
The Log of a Cowboy is an account of a five-month drive of 3,000 cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana in 1882 along the Great Western …

Scaramouche

by Rafael Sabatini Read by Gord Mackenzie 4.8
Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a la…

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy Read by Bruce Pirie 4.7
Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to a stranger. Thus begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in rural …

The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The last of the famous "Scarlet Pimpernel" books, the "Triumph" tells the story of the final confrontation between the S…

The Leavenworth Case

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Kevin Green 4.5
The Leavenworth Case is a gripping detective novel set in New York, and is one of the first detective fiction novels to be written by a fema…

The Postmaster's Daughter

by Louis Tracy Read by Sharon Kilmer 4.3
A charming mystery story set in the early 1900s which is as much about the townspeople, sleuths and othercolorful characters as it is about …

Eleanor's Victory

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by Eleanor Howard 4.6
Only 15-years-old, Eleanor Vane is very happy with her lot: educated in an expensive finishing school in Paris, the apple of her father's ey…

The Laughing Cavalier

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The enigmatic smile of The Laughing Cavalier of Franz Hals' famous painting invites you to wonder just what mischievousness hides behind tha…

Wulf the Saxon

by G. A. Henty Read by Peter John Keeble 4.8
Wulf the Saxon is a classic George Henty tale of nobility, loyalty and courage set in 11th century Britain. It relates the adventures of Wul…

Tish

by Mary Roberts Rinehart Read by Sandra Cullum 4.5
Tish introduces listeners to the delightful escapades of three spirited middle-aged women, led by the indomitable Letitia Carberry. Set agai…

Sir Gibbie

by George MacDonald Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
These are the adventures of Sir Gibbie through the Scotland moors. Not being able to read or speak, Gibbie survives on the streets without a…

The Man in the Iron Mask

by Alexandre Dumas Read by Mark F. Smith 4.6
In this, the last of the Three Musketeers novels, Dumas builds on the true story of a mysterious prisoner held incognito in the French penal…

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens Read by Peter John Keeble 4.9
Bleak house is one of Dickens finest achievements. It was written for serialisation in 1853 when Dickens was at the peak of his career. Mont…

The Prairie

by James Fenimore Cooper Read by William Peck 4.6
The story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen and Abiram slowly making their way across the virgin prairies of the Midwest looking for a h…

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…

The Lady of the Basement Flat

by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey Read by Judi Mason 4.8
A naive young girl strikes out on her own and ends up leading a double life in this engaging tale of love lost and found. Summary by Judi M…

Miss Maitland, Private Secretary

by Geraldine Bonner Read by Holly Jenson 4.4
Semi-retired sleuth Molly Morgenthau Babbitts goes undercover as a governess to investigate a robbery at the aristocratic Janney mansion on …

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