Historical Fiction
Ruggles of Red Gap
Read by Carol Pelster
Harry Leon Wilson
A stuffy class-conscious gentleman's valet is transplanted to the rough uncivilized American northwest, where the rubes and social climbers …
Sir Thomas More
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Anthony Munday
Sir Thomas More is a collaborative Elizabethan play by Anthony Munday and others depicting the life and death of Thomas More. It survives on…
The Cathedral
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (1884 – 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the c…
A Daughter of the Land (version 2)
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Gene Stratton-Porter
A Daughter of the Land follows Kate Bates, one of sixteen children, as she takes the wings of morning to try for independence and the life s…
The World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Tur…
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Eva March Tappan
This is the sixth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…
Leatherface: A Tale of Old Flanders
Read by Deon Gines
Baroness Emma Orczy
A romantic, political adventure story set in the late 1500's, during the Spanish rule over the Netherlands, in the city of Ghent. Leatherfac…
Hagar's Daughter. A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice
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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Hagar's Daughter was first published serially in "The Colored American Magazine" in 1901-1902 by Pauline E. Hopkins, a prominent A…
Men, Women and Guns
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Sapper
World War I stories, as told through the eyes of someone who was there, but leavened with humour and an eye for the ridiculous side of human…
War and Peace, Volume 3 (Maude Translation)
Read by Mark Nelson
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy’s epic historical novel chronicling the Napoleonic war in Russia. Considered one of the greatest works of literature of all time…
The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars)
Read by Daryl Wor
Harriet Lummis Smith
The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars) published in 1920, finds Peggy and her friends preparing for The Great War.…
The Age of Innocence (Dramatic Reading)
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Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of a woman plagued by scandal whose presenc…
The Manchester Man
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Isabella Varley Banks
Jabez Clegg, the Manchester man, floats into this historical novel in 1799, carried downstream by the River Irk in flood. Jabez's rise to co…
Oldtown Folks
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
1870's rural Massachusetts communities became famous as “Oldtown” in Harriet Beecher Stowe's 7th novel and national bestseller. Based partia…
Ghosts (version 2)
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Henrik Ibsen
A Family-drama in three acts. Like many of Ibsen's better-known plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th century morality. (Summary by…
De Leeuw van Vlaenderen of de Slag der Gulden Sporen
Read by Anna Simon
Hendrik Conscience
Een historische roman die zich afspeelt in Vlaanderen rond de Guldensporenslag in 1302. Vlaanderen is in de handen van de Fransen gevallen, …
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Book 1
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Lew Wallace
Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ "Book 1" gives a sideline view of events taking pace around the days of Christ. Book 1…
The Favor of Kings
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Mary Hastings Bradley
"Never have bright romance and black scandal been more attached to the name of lovely woman," writes a quaint and susceptible chro…
The Last Rebel
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Joseph A. Altsheler
Arthur West has been taken as a prisoner of war by Colonel Hetherhill of the Confederate States of America, and imprisoned at Fort Defiance,…
The Red Badge of Courage (Version 3)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Stephen Crane
A youth, caught up in patriotic fervor and dreams of glory, enlists in the Union Army. In his first battle, though, he runs away. Deeply ash…