Historical Fiction

Taking the Bastile

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Pitou lost his mother when he was small. He was raised by a stern aunt who did not really love him. He starts knowing the world by going to …

Round About a Great Estate

by Richard Jefferies Read by Steven Seitel 4.6
John Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) wrote of country life, natural history, and agricultural practice at a time when the industrial revolutio…

Sons of Fire

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by Jim Locke 3.3
"He was a stranger in Matcham, a 'foreigner' as the villagers called such alien visitors. He had never been in the village before, knew…

The Candle Star

by Michelle Isenhoff Read by Michelle Isenhoff 4.9
Detroit, 1858. After a tantrum, Emily Preston is shipped from her plantation home to her inn-keeping Uncle in Detroit.There Emily meets Mala…

The Armourer's Prentices

by Charlotte Mary Yonge Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Set in the sixteenth century, two young boys are left orphans and are turned out of their home by their older brother, or, more particularly…

The World’s Story

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 2.2
This is the seventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March …

Raiding with Morgan

by Byron A. Dunn Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Raiding with Morgan transports listeners to the tumultuous days of the U.S. Civil War, focusing on the daring cavalry raids led by General J…

The Gold Sickle

by Eugène Sue Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Gold Sickle; or, Hena the Virgin of the Isle of Sen. A Tale of Druid Gaul is the first part of Eugène Sue's The Mysteries of the …

Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police

by Ralph Connor Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Cameron, a young man from Edinburgh, is a university student who is a rising star on the football team. When the big day comes and he nearly…

Darnley

by George Payne Rainsford James Read by Lynne T 4.3
A stranger rides across the Kentish countryside when his attention is called to a cottage where violence is being done to an elderly couple.…

Geschichte des Agathon

by Christoph Martin Wieland Read by redaer 0.6
Verbesserte und erweiterte Ausgabe von 1794.Wieland war – neben Lessing, Lichtenberg und Kant – der bedeutendste und reflexionsmächtigs…

Anne of Geierstein

by Sir Walter Scott Read by Deon Gines 4.2
Anne of Geierstein, or The Maiden of the Mist (1829) is an adventure and romance novel by Sir Walter Scott. It is set in Central Europe, mai…

The Nest of the Sparrowhawk

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by Deon Gines 4
This historical novel takes place in Kent in 1657, and focuses on a local nobleman who stops at nothing to gain wealth, and his ward who is …

In the Year of Jubilee

by George Gissing Read by skoval 4.5
The Jubilee marks the fiftieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria. Dickensian in its sweeping scope of London life, Jubilee depicts the har…

Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri

by William James McGlothlin Read by zaaf 4.6
Apollonius of Tyre is the subject of an ancient short novella, popular during medieval times. Existing in numerous forms in many languages, …

Rose Mather

by Mary Jane Holmes Read by Celine Major 4.9
Fiction merges with history in this novel taking place during the turbulent times of the civil war and the horrors it entailed. Holme's sill…

Mrs. Warren's Daughter

by Sir Harry Johnston Read by Jacquerie 4.9
Mrs. Warren's Daughter is a continuation, in novel form, of George Bernard Shaw's controversial play, Mrs. Warren's Profession. In the play,…

Magna Carta

by Amice Macdonell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
A one-act play which describes the setting and writing of the Magna Carta, including the famous line "now is justice bought and sold&qu…

Self-Control: A Novel

by Mary Brunton Read by Simon Evers 4.5
Laura Montreville is a well-born and religious girl, brought up in Scotland by her widowed father. She is pursued by Colonel Hargrave, a lib…

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