Historical Fiction
The Surgeon's Daughter
Read by Deon Gines
Sir Walter Scott
The Surgeon's Daughter is an historical novel, originally part of the Chronicles of the Canongate stories, later published on its own, in 18…
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
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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…
The Dream
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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…
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…
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…
Die Ahnen
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…
Captain John Crane
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…
Silver Pitchers
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Louisa May Alcott
Here are 9 engaging short stories from Louisa May Alcott (of Little Women fame), all period pieces, some of them somewhat autobiographical, …
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…
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…
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…
Die Ahnen
Read by Bernd Ungerer
Gustav Freytag
Die fünfte Erzählung 'Die Geschwister' ist in sich zweigeteilt und behandelt die Geschichte zweier Militärpersonen aus der Fa…
Ticonderoga
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…
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…
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…