Historical Fiction
The Indian Corn Planter
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E. Pauline Johnson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Indian Corn Planter by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 2…
La Guerra y la Paz
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Leo Tolstoy
En 1869, tras seis años de arduo trabajo con la colaboración de su esposa Sophia Tolstaya, Tolstoy publicó la versi&oac…
The Chimney Corner
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Stowe wrote over 30 books. This one is a fascinating collection of her post Civil War musings on a variety of cultural topics, staged mostly…
Taras Bulba
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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Spannende Erzählung voller Tragik über das Leben der russisch-ukrainischen Kosaken im frühen 17. Jahrhundert.Indem wir die Sc…
The Lie
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Sir Walter Raleigh
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of "The Lie" by Sir Walter Raleigh. This was the fortnightly poem for the period begin…
Oil!
Read by Bob R
Upton Sinclair
The two main characters of “Oil” are James Arnold Ross, called “Dad”, and his son James Jr., called “Bunny”. The book is loosely based on a …
Viviette
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Viviette is a headstrong young girl who is pursued by two brothers: Austin, a headstrong man of the world and a barrister in London, and Dic…
Colonel Greatheart
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H. C. Bailey
This is a story of the English Civil War where a witching woman conquerors hearts and marks.
Muslin
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George Moore and George Logan Moore
Muslin, better known as A Drama In Muslin, is a realistic novel by George Moore. It describes the lives of five Irish girls after their grad…
De L'Orme
Read by Lynne T
George Payne Rainsford James
G.P.R. James was a historian and novelist, who took well-documented historical events and characters and wove stories around minor or imagin…
Saint Joan
Read by David Wales
George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th-century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her…
In Colonial Days
Read by Edmund Bloxam
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A collection of British aristocrats, soldiers, gentlemen and ladies gather at the Province House inn, as the American imperial possessions c…
The Deluge
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a th…
Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand
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Henry Cadwallader Adams
A young man travels to South Africa to find his Mother and sister. He wants to be a clergyman and a farmer when he arrives there. This story…
Blackbeard
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Ralph Delahaye Paine
Blackbeard: Buccaneer tells the story of the infamous Edward Teach, better known as the pirate Blackbeard. This book is an exciting depictio…
Vóór Adam's tijd
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Jack London
"Vóór Adam's tijd" is het verhaal van een jongen die droomt dat hij het leven leidt van een vroege mensachtige, Aust…
Goena - goena
Read by Marcel Coenders
Paul Adriaan Daum
Een literaire thriller uit het Indië van de negentiende eeuw. Moord, doodslag en een aantrekkelijke jonge vrouw die weet wat ze wil. Wa…
Uther and Igraine
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Warwick Deeping
This beautifully written book imagines the lives of Igraine and Uther Pendragon before the legend of Arthur began. (Summary by A. Gramour)