Historical Fiction
The Golden Bough
Read by Tony Oliva
George Gibbs
The eyes of the Légionnaire, now grown accustomed to the glow of the light, made sure that the figure had not moved, nor was aware of…
Flemington
Read by Nan Dodge
Violet Jacob
This adventure historical fiction novel is set in Angus, Scotland during the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. It has all the elements of a good w…
Colonel Chabert
Read by Nicole Lee
Honoré de Balzac
Colonel Chabert is a soldier, who goes missing during the Napoleonic wars, and then returns from the dead, most inconveniently for his wife,…
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Henry Fielding
This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph A…
The Dove in the Eagle's Nest
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
Christina is an ordinary girl who lives with her aunt and uncle. Life is normal until one day when her father appears and plans to take Chri…
A Bachelor's Dream
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Mrs. Hungerford
This is a wonderfully written novel by Mrs. Hungerford about the perennial bachelor and the various interests in his life, where he is a doc…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 3: Nisida
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
This story details the many crimes (attempted rape, assault, filicide, etc.) surrounding a significant historical confrontation between a fi…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5: Part 2: La Constantin
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
Dumas chronicles the court intrigues that led to the execution of Marie La Roux Constantin. La dame Constantin was known by French nobility …
Watch and Wait; The Young Fugitives
Read by Scarlett Martin
William Taylor Adams and Oliver Optic
One soft summer evening, when Woodville was crowned with the glory and beauty of the joyous season, three strangers presented themselves bef…
Stories of the Scottish Border
Read by Jhiu
William Platt
Nothing seems to be known about Mr and Mrs William Platt, the writers of Stories of the Scottish Border. What they produced is an eccentric …
Roses of Winter
Read by Murdo Morrison
Murdo Morrison
They had been through one World War and a Great Depression. Now they faced another global conflict. Share the adventures of the Burns and Mc…
Australia Felix
Read by tabithat
Henry Handel Richardson
The story of Richard Mahony, a doctor trained in Edinburgh who comes to Ballarat in the gold rush of the 1850s. At first he runs a shop but …
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 3: Martin Guerre
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
Martin Guerre was a French peasant that, during a long absence, was famously impersonated in the 16th century. Although the real Martin Guer…
Marietta: A Maid of Venice
Read by Michele Fry
Francis Marion Crawford
This swash-buckling, romantic story of Zorzi Ballarin and Angelo Beroviero, master glass-blowers of Murano, Italy in the 1500's, is not enti…
Delia Blanchflower
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
Delia Blanchflower’s father has died, leaving her a considerable inheritance. However, she has become caught up in the militant wing of the …
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 2
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George MacDonald
’St. George and St. Michael’ is a little-known historical romance telling the story of a young couple who find themselves on opposing sides …
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 11
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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James Mcglothlin
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…
The Pharaoh and the Priest
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Bolesław Prus
The Pharaoh and the Priest (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was the sole historica…
The Roots of the Mountains
Read by Phil Benson
William Morris
The Roots of the Mountains was the second in a projected series of three historical novels set in a pre-medieval Germanic world (the third w…
The Golem: A legend of old Prague
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Rudolf Lothar
Rabbi Loeb creates a clay man to house a perfect soul that he hopes will not be blighted by human prejudices. The plan does not go as he hop…