Historical Fiction
Willem Tell
Read by Marcel Coenders
Pieter Louwerse
Het wereld beroemde verhaal van Willem Tell door Pieter Louwerse opnieuw verteld. - Summary by Marcel Coenders
Love and a Bottle
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George Farquhar
This play was produced in 1698 at Drury Lane Theatre. From the bustle of its plot, the variety of its incidents, and the sustained humour of…
The Fair Maid of Perth, Or, St. Valentine's Day
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Sir Walter Scott
Henry Gow has fallen in love with the Fair Maid of Perth, Catherine, the glovemaker's daughter. To make sure that he would be the first pers…
La Fée des Grèves
Read by Christiane Jehanne
Paul Féval, Père
Roman historique, pendant la Guerre de Cent Ans. Le Duc François de Bretagne est dénoncé pour fratricide.Un ouvrage ple…
Die Ahnen - Marcus König
Read by Bernd Ungerer
Gustav Freytag
Mit dem 4. Band der Ahnen-Reihe sind wir in der Zeit Martin Luthers angekommen. Die Erzählung Marcus König setzt 1519 in Thorn ein…
The Dream: a novel
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H. G. Wells
The story is set in a Utopian future. On an excursion, Sarnac, relates his vivid dream to his friends and recounts how he lived the entire l…
Warriors of Old Japan, and Other Stories
Read by mlcui
Yei Theodora Ozaki
This is a collection of stories featuring members of the Samurai - the warrior class of old Japan, rendered into English by Yei Theodora Oza…
Human Toll
Read by Kirsty Leishman
Barbara Baynton
Ursula (Ursie) Ewart, orphaned as a young child, is sent away from her home in the Australian bush. While Ursie was previously doted on by s…
Captain John Crane, 1800 - 1815
Read by Tom Hirsch (1947-2022)
Thomas Wallace Knox
John and David grew up best of friends, outgoing and full of adventure. Living but miles from the sea west of Boston, right on the cusp of m…
Redgauntlet
Read by Deon Gines
Sir Walter Scott
Redgauntlet is an historical novel about a fictitious third Jacobite rebellion. It takes place mostly in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in 1765. I…
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 5: The Countess of Charny
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
This 5th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins after the fall of the Bastille and the March on Versailles, which forced Louis XVI a…
Antic Hay
Read by Jim Locke
Aldous Huxley
The epigram to this work from Christoher Marlowe applies to the plot of this story: "My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns / Shall wi…
Die Ahnen - Die Geschwister
Read by Bernd Ungerer
Gustav Freytag
Die fünfte Erzählung 'Die Geschwister' ist in sich zweigeteilt und behandelt die Geschichte zweier Militärpersonen aus der Fa…
The Young Visiters
Read by Tysto
Daisy Ashford
The Young Visiters is a comic romance novella that parodies upper class society of late Victorian England. Social climber Alfred Salteena in…
Ticonderoga; A Story of Early Frontier Life in the Mohawk Valley
Read by Lynne T
George Payne Rainsford James
In the backwoods, lives a man and his two teenage children. He has sought the quiet life on the frontier, although he is a friend to all and…
We Were There at the Normandy Invasion
Read by Wayne Cooke
Clayton Knight
D-Day: 6 June 1944. The date of the invasion of the Normandy Coast of France by the Allies. This novel gives a different look at that invasi…
Missing
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
It is 1915 and Nelly and Lieutenant George Sarratt have recently married. After a blissful but brief honeymoon in the Lake District, George …