Historical Fiction
The Cliff-Dwellers
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Henry Blake Fuller
Between the former site of old Fort Dearborn and the present site of our newest Board of Trade there lies a restricted yet tumultuous territ…
Tales of a Vanishing River
Read by Tom Hirsch (1947-2022)
Earl Reed
The background of this collection of sketches and stories is the country through which flowed one of the most interesting of our western riv…
The Garies and their Friends
Read by Jim Locke
Frank Webb
The book which now appears before the public may be of interest in relation to a question which the late agitation of the subject of slavery…
The Wounded Name
Read by Elin
D. K. Broster
Laurent de Courtomer, the son of a French aristocratic emigré and an Englishwoman, returns to France upon the Bourbon restoration fol…
Condemned as a Nihilist: A Story of Escape from Siberia
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G. A. Henty
Godfrey Bullen, the son of an English trader, is sent by his father to Russia to work in their firm in St. Petersburg. He unknowingly gets c…
The Quaker City
Read by Mark Nelson
George Lippard
The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall was originally published in 1845, and is considered the first muckraking novel. It is a lurid and…
Aboe Bakar
Read by Marcel Coenders
Paul Adriaan Daum
Een waargebeurd verhaal uit Nederlands Indië. Adam Silver, kind van een Engelsman en een inlandse vrouw, wordt verstoten uit de blanke …
Short Stories in Prose and Verse
Read by Chris Greaves
Henry Lawson
Short Stories in Prose and Verse” is Henry Lawson’s first published book (1894); his first published poem appeared in 1887. The volume is a …
The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
Read by Lauren Huff
Mary Shelley
After the brutal and turbulent Wars of the Roses, Henry VII reigned over England and the sons of his rival Edward IV, once held captive in t…
John MacNab
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John Buchan
Sir Edward Leithen and his friends Lord Lamancha, Palliser-Yeates, and Archie Roylance are bored of life. After Leithen's doctor recommends …
Los Nazarenos
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José Milla Y Vidaurre
Los Nazarenos es la obra cumbre de Pepe Milla. La trama describe la rivalidad entre las familias mientras colapsa la Capitanía Genera…
The History of David Grieve
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
The book follows the life and times of David Grieve, from his childhood on a remote farm in the Peak District to Manchester, Paris and back …
The White Conquerors: A Tale of Toltec and Aztec
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Kirk Munroe
This historical romance is a telling of the fall of the Aztec Empire. The epic begins on the eve of the dedication ceremony of the monumenta…
The Lady of Blossholme
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H. Rider Haggard
The Lady of Blossholme is an exciting tale, set in 16th Century England, and featuring such historical figures as Cromwell and King Henry VI…