Historical Fiction

Richard of Jamestown

by James Otis Read by Laura Caldwell 4.6
Richard of Jamestown invites young listeners to step back in time to the early days of American colonization through the eyes of a spirited …

'Tilda Jane

by Marshall Saunders Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
When spunky 'Tilda Jane isn't allowed to keep her beloved dog with her at the orphanage, she decides to set out on her own in search of a ho…

The Forty-Five Guardsmen

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.5
The sequel to "Chicot the Jester" and final book of the "Valois Romances." This story begins six years after the famed &…

Windsor Castle

by William Harrison Ainsworth Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Book 1 - Anne Boleyn. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as h…

Der Heilige

by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Read by Hans Hafen 4.5
Die Rahmenhandlung der Novelle "Der Heilige" bildet Hans der Armbruster, der im Jahre 1180 im Rückblick die dramatische Leben…

Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreord…

Eben Holden

by Irving Bacheller Read by Roger Melin 4.7
Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country. Having lost both parents and his home in northern Vermont, orphan Willie Brower is taken in by Eb…

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens Read by Richard Reiman 4.6
Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities is a novel that views the eighteenth century French Revolution through the lens of nineteenth century…

The Trumpet-Major

by Thomas Hardy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments pr…

The Spoilers

by Rex Beach Read by Tom Weiss 4.4
Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan to a prominent family and pursued a career as a lawyer before being drawn to Alaska at the time of th…

The Maid of Maiden Lane

by Amelia E. Barr Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Mrs. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in …

The Fortune of the Rougons

by Émile Zola Read by Peter Tucker 4.7
The Fortune of the Rougons (French: La Fortune des Rougon), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monument…

Septimus

by William John Locke Read by Simon Evers 4.6
The book concerns the tangled lives of four people: Zora, a young widow who seeks some purpose in her life; Septimus Dix, an other-wordly bu…

Germinal

by Émile Zola Read by VfkaBT 3.3
This epic about French coal miners and the burgeoning labor movement is considered one of Zola's finest novels. - Summary by Matt Pierard

Windsor Castle

by William Harrison Ainsworth Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Book 2 - Herne the Hunter. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn…

The Leopard's Spots

by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Read by Michele Fry 4.1
The first in a trilogy of the Reconstruction era - The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907), parts of this no…

The Queen's Necklace

by Alexandre Dumas Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan 4.3
The Queen's Necklace is historical fiction based on an actual scandal in the court of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI during 1784-85, "T…

The Reign of King Edward the Third

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Reign of King Edward the Third is an Elizabethan play printed anonymously in 1596. It has frequently been claimed that it was at least p…

Die Ahnen

by Gustav Freytag Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Der Vandalenprinz Ingo wird im Jahre 357 von den Römern aus seiner Heimat am Rhein vertrieben und findet Zuflucht bei einem Gastfreund …

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