Historical Fiction
Joel, a Boy of Galilee
Read by Esther ben Simonides
Annie Fellows Johnston
Joel, a crippled boy, cannot play with the children and has nothing to care about. Rabbi Phineas helps him to find something he can do and t…
Jerusalem Delivered
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Torquato Tasso
The First Crusade provides the backdrop for a rich tapestry of political machinations, military conflicts, martial rivalries, and love stori…
Hypatia
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Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley (June 12 1819 - January 23 1875) was an English divine, university professor, historian, and novelist, particularly associa…
The Valley of Decision
Read by Robert Keiper
Edith Wharton
Odo Valsecca, a promising nobleman, inherits a dukedom at a young age and, over the course of his young life, must quickly learn the politic…
Under Wellington’s Command
Read by Charles P. Sapp
G. A. Henty
Under Wellington's Command is the sequel to With Moore at Corunna. The book picks up where the last book left off when Portugal is freed fr…
Doom Castle
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Neil Munro
Doom Castle is the story of young Count Victor's journey to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion, searching for a traitor to the Jacobite c…
Monja y Casada, Vírgen y Mártir - Libro Primero El Convento de Santa Teresa
Read by Joyfull
Vicente Riva Palacio
Una novela histórica de los tiempos de la Santa Inquisición en México. A historical novel of the times of the Inquisit…
Memorias de un cortesano de 1815
Read by KendalRigans
Benito Pérez Galdós
En estas "Memorias de un cortesano de 1815" (segunda entrega de la segunda serie de Episodios Nacionales), Benito Pérez Gal…
A Little Maid of Province Town
Read by Arielle Lipshaw
Alice Turner Curtis
Plucky eight year old Anne Nelson, living in Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod, is determined to bring the Revolutionary War to an end so …
The Last Three Soldiers
Read by David Wales
William Henry Shelton
What if the Confederacy had won the American Civil War? It’s July 1864 and three oh-so-young Union troopers are assigned to a mountaintop in…
Pimpernel and Rosemary
Read by Holly
Baroness Emma Orczy
A novel in the Scarlet Pimpernel series that features Peter Blakeney, a descendant of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Peter's adventures take him to…
For the Term of His Natural Life
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Marcus Clarke
For the Term of his Natural Life, written by Marcus Clarke, was published in the Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872 (as His Natural Li…
Unto Caesar
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Baroness Emma Orczy
"The State," he said, speaking at least as haughtily as Dea Flavia herself, "hath agreed to accept the sum of twenty aurei fo…
Georgica
Read by Malone
Virgil
Vergil's Georgica is the culmination of a long tradition in antiquity of poems about agriculture, beginning with Hesiod in the eighth c. BC.…
The Death of Society: A Novel of Tomorrow
Read by Expatriate
Florence Roma Muir Wilson
A weary survivor of the Great War, Major Rane Smith wanders in a great ennui amidst the mystical beauties of the fjords of Norway after the …
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 1: Balsamo, The Magician
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
This is the first volume of Dumas' Marie Antoinette Romances (also called "The Memoirs of a Physician"). This historical fiction c…
The Glory of Clementina Wing
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
The book follows the adventures of two main characters - Clementina Wing, a talented artist in her mid 30's with no social graces and Ephrai…
Heart of Darkness (version 4)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In this powerful novella based on Joseph Conrad's own experiences in the Belgian Congo, Charles Marlow, an experienced seaman, tells a small…
The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 3: The Man in the Iron Mask (version 2)
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
Volume 3 of The d'Artagnan Romances is divided into three parts. In this, the final part, d’Artagnan’s fortune is near its height; having be…
A Cry From An Indian Wife
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E. Pauline Johnson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of A Cry From an Indian Wife by E. Pauline Johnson,. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for…