Historical Fiction
Peveril of the Peak
Read by Deon Gines
Sir Walter Scott
Peveril is one of Scott's Waverley novels series. It is a historical novel set in 1678 in England, and tells a story of the Popish Plot. P…
Arabella Stuart
Read by Lynne T
George Payne Rainsford James
Lady Arabella Stuart was an English noblewoman at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At one time considered to be a possible successo…
The Island Pharisees
Read by Simon Evers
John Galsworthy
Richard Shelton is wrestling with his conscience. As a member of the upper class at a time when the British Empire is at its height, he sees…
The Heidenmauer; or, The Benedictines. A Legend of the Rhine
Read by Joel Kindrick
James Fenimore Cooper
This is a story that is set in 16th century Germany. Characters representing the various classes of the remnants of feudalism and the rising…
Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion
Read by AnaNaumoska
Beatrice E. Clay
"Among the stories of world-wide renown, not the least stirring are those that have gathered about the names of national heroes. The &A…
The Freelands
Read by Simon Evers
John Galsworthy
The Freelands family is a mixture: Tod Freeland is an uncommunicative gentle giant, his wife Kirsteen passionate and free-spoken, Felix is a…
De Pleegzoon
Read by Marcel Coenders
Jacob Van Lennep
Gedurende het twaalfjarig bestand van de 80 jarige oorlog woedt er in de Nederlanden een godsdienstoorlog tussen de Remonstranten en de Cont…
The Village in the Jungle
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Leonard Woolf
Woolf wrote this novel based on his experience as a government agent for British imperialist-controlled Ceylon in the early part of the twen…
Virgin Soil Volume 2
Read by Peter Tucker
Ivan Turgenev
The second volume of Turgenev's last novel sees social change bubbling up into conflict with the established order and interacting with the …
Historia de un Pepe
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José Milla Y Vidaurre
Novela histórico-narrativa de mediados del siglo XIX, donde un recién nacido es abandonado a la puerta de una casa. Luego de s…
The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants
Read by Lynne T
George Payne Rainsford James
The time of French king Louis XIV was a time of religious conflict. His father, Louis XIII had tried to suppress the teachings and followers…
Held Fast For England: A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar
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G. A. Henty
"He is sharp, and does his lessons well. I have no difficulty with him, on that score; but he is a perfect imp of mischief." Young…
The Forest Lovers
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Maurice Henry Hewlett
My story will take you into times and spaces alike rude and uncivil. Blood will be spilt, virgins suffer distresses; the horn will sound thr…
The Young Colonists: A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars
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G. A. Henty
In this book, Henty explores the wars of the British empire in Africa. His sympathies may be entirely with the English (as is our young pro…
A Cathedral Singer
Read by David Wales
James Lane Allen
New York City in the early 20th century, a boy with an angelic voice, his devoted mother, the great Episcopal Cathedral of Saint John The Di…
Minnie's Sacrifice
Read by Jim Locke
Frances E. W. Harper
Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's death, and there she marries Lou…
At Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt
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G. A. Henty
This is a tale of the French expedition into Egypt led by Napoleon Bonaparte, aimed to establish a French colony in Egypt and to threaten En…