Historical Fiction
The World’s Story
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Eva March Tappan
This is the second 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 T…
The Caves of Fear
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Harold L. Goodwin
Entry in the Rick Brant series by Goodwin under the name John Blaine, which began in 1947. 'Rick and Scotty travel to the Himalayas again, …
The Clansman
Read by Michele Fry
Thomas Dixon, Jr.
The second book in a trilogy of the Reconstruction era - The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907), this novel…
Der Pascha von Buda
Read by Ramona Deininger-Schnabel
Heinrich Zschokke
Eine Freundschaft zwischen zwei jungen Männern ungleicher Herkunft und Chancen, die sich durch alle Unbilden der Zeit und des Schicksal…
Mr. Prohack
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
Mr Prohack, an ordinary official in the Treasury and leading a hum-drum life, suddenly and unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money which,…
A Vital Question
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Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Despised by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, What Is To Be Done? is a fascinating, sympathetic story of idealistic revolutionaries in mid-nineteenth…
The Metropolis
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Upton Sinclair
In this 1907 novel about the extravagant life of New York City’s high society, the author of The Jungle, presents a portrait of the wealthy …
The Man with the Clubfoot
Read by Mark Nelson
Valentine Williams
"The Man with the Clubfoot" is one of the most ingenious and sinister secret agents in Europe. It is to him that the task is assig…
The Keeper of the Bees
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Gene Stratton-Porter
Threatened with isolation in a sanitorium for tuberculosis, a young soldier escapes and finds himself healing in a paradisal bee-garden by t…
The Ladies' Paradise
Read by Kristin G.
Émile Zola
Zola's original French publication, Au Bonheur des Dames ("The Ladies' Delight"), published 1882, is the eleventh novel in his Rou…
Dash for Khartoum
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G. A. Henty
When a nursemaid mixes up her baby boy and the baby of the family she works for, the family decides to keep both. Years later, the nursemaid…
The Blazed Trail
Read by Tom Weiss
Stewart Edward White
Stewart Edward White wrote fiction and non-fiction about adventure and travel, with an emphasis on natural history and outdoor living. White…
Ang Singsing nang Dalagang Marmol
Read by April Gonzales
Isabelo De Los Reyes
Ang nobeletang Ang Singsing nang Dalagang Marmol ni Isabelo de los Reyes ay hinggil sa kawal ng himagsikang Pilipino na napaibig sa isang da…
El Aprendiz de Conspirador
Read by Antonio Redondo
Pío Baroja
El aprendiz de conspirador empieza presentándonos la figura de Pello Leguía, imaginario pariente de Baroja, criatura hecha a i…
La Estafeta Romántica
Read by Tux
Benito Pérez Galdós
La estafeta no es sino el correo y esta es precisamente, la forma de correspondencia, la estructura de la sexta novela de la tercera serie d…
Old Christmas
Read by Greg Giordano
Washington Irving
Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with…
A Great Man
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
Subtitled 'A Frolic', this light-hearted book follows the fortunes of Henry Shakespeare Knight who, rather to his own surprise, writes a bes…
The Mill on the Floss
Read by Tom Denholm
George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the l…
Samson Agonistes
Read by Martin Geeson
John Milton
“The Sun to me is darkAnd silent as the Moon,When she deserts the nightHid in her vacant interlunar cave.”Milton composes his last extended …
A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter
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Alice Turner Curtis
Sylvia Fulton is a ten-years-old girl from Boston who stayed in Charleston, South Carolina, before the opening of the Civil War. She loves h…