Historical Fiction
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Read by Deon Gines
Sir Walter Scott
An historical novel set in Scotland in 1736, involving a riot and surrounding drama. - Summary by Deon Gines
The Stone Chest
Read by Laurie Banza
G. A. Henty
When the ship, Bluebell, went down, Captain Cromwell and Ruel Gross escaped on a raft, and after several days of suffering, finall…
Os Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca
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Júlio Dinis
A obra conta a história dos fidalgos Negrões de Vilar dos Corvos, uma família abalada por várias tragédia…
The Spell of the Yukon
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Robert W. Service
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Spell of the Yukon by Robert W. Service. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Dece…
The Gray Mills of Farley
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Sarah Orne Jewett
As contemporary today as it was over a century ago, this relatively unsentimental tale of labor relations still packs a punch. (Summary by B…
Post Haste
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R. M. Ballantyne
In this book, Ballantyne weaves the story of Phillip Mayland and his friend, George Aspel with an interesting portrayal of the British Post …
The Spanish Brothers
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Deborah Alcock
The daughter of a minister, Deborah Alcock wrote novels on a Christian theme. The Spanish Brothers is set in the sixteenth century and deals…
Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 4: Taking the Bastile
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
This 4th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins several years after the close of "The Queen’s Necklace.” It describes the event…
A Farewell to Arms (Version 2)
Read by Mark Nelson
Ernest Hemingway
Frederic Henry is an American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army during World War I, who after being severely wounded and ho…
Consider The Elephant
Read by Aram Schefrin
Aram Schefrin
The common wisdom is that the men who have attacked American Presidents - Czolgosz, Guiteau, Fromme, Hinckley, Moore, Oswald, Zangara - were…
MONARCH: the Big Bear of Tallac
Read by Ernest Thompson Seton
Ernest Thompson Seton
Ernest Thompson Seton's book, "Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac." Published in 1919, it tells the story of a tiny Grizzly cub who g…
Jess
Read by Jim Locke
H. Rider Haggard
The setting for this novel is the Boer War in South Africa in 1880. This novel is interesting and exciting on several levels: there are com…
Entre naranjos
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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Con tintes naturalistas, un apreciable realismo, y unos toques de ironía, Blasco Ibáñez relata en esta novela ambientad…
The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw
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Frances Milton Trollope
The novel begins with the arrival of a family staking a claim in the black delta of the Deep South. Whitlaw is a brutish sort who bullies hi…
History and Fiction
Read by Roy Schreiber
Roy Schreiber
Why don't writers who fictionalize history just write fiction? Why did Shakespeare call his character Richard III or King John? Why not ca…
Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport
Read by Jim Locke
Lawrence Perry
Newport, of course, means aristocratic families and naval adventures. In this tale, we wonder if the heiress will actually marry the Russian…
The Pirate
Read by Deon Gines
Sir Walter Scott
The Pirate is set in the island of Shetland in the late 1600s, and is a historical novel based on the life of John Gow, Captain Cleveland in…
Lady Sybil's Choice
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Emily Sarah Holt
This historical novel is set in the 1100s in France and Jerusalem, following the First Crusade. Part of the story of Guy of Lusignan (a real…
Shakspere: Personal Recollections
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John A. Joyce
A fictitious account of a "friend" of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling…