Historical Fiction
The Lion's Skin
Read by Carol Pelster
Rafael Sabatini
Justin Caryll was an unwilling hero: an unwilling plotter of revenge, an unwilling spy and an unwilling pursuer of the woman he loves. Justi…
How To Tell A Story, and Other Essays (Version 2)
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
The complete collection of works using this title. Other versions, including the Project Gutenberg version, have been radically shortened. M…
Tempest and Sunshine
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Mary Jane Holmes
Tempest and Sunshine is the first book written by Mary Jane Holmes. Set in the pre-Civil War south, it follows the struggles and romances of…
A Candle For Our Lady
Read by Maria Therese
Regina Victoria Hunt
Dark times for British Catholics hung over England in the days of King Henry VIII. Henry, influenced by the hated Thomas Cromwell, fell into…
Under the Witches' Moon
Read by Bill Boerst
Nathan Gallizier
The scene is Rome, 935 A.D. Thirty-year-old Tristan, dressed as a pilgrim, overhears a conversation between Basil, the Grand Chamberlain, an…
Max
Read by Simon Evers
Katherine Cecil Thurston
On a trans-continental train journey into Paris, Max, a young adventurer determined to make his way as an artist, meets Blake, a well-to-do …
Linda Tressel
Read by Simon Evers
Anthony Trollope
Linda Tressel lives a lonely life with her domineering aunt, Madame Staubach, in a large house in Nuremberg. Madame Staubach takes in the od…
Maria Chapdelaine
Read by J. C. Guan
Louis Hémon
Maria Chapdelaine raconte la vie difficile d'une famille paysanne au Québec, au début des années 1900.
Fuente Ovejuna
Read by KendalRigans
Félix Arturo Lope De Vega and Félix Lope De Vega
En esta obra se dramatiza la toma de justicia de un pueblo (Fuenteovejuna) frente a los actos corruptos de su gobernador. Cansados de las hu…
Jürg Jenatsch
Read by Hans Hafen
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Jürg Jenatsch ist der Titel eines 1876 erschienenen historischen Romans von Conrad Ferdinand Meyer über den Bündner Pfarrer u…
The Black Dwarf
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Sir Walter Scott
The Black Dwarf is the first of the “Tales of My Landlord” series, which also includes The Bride of Lammermoor and The Heart of Midlothian. …
Tijl Uilenspiegel in Vlaanderen
Read by Bart de Leeuw
Jan Bruylants
Volgens de legende was Uilenspiegel een deugniet die vrij als een vogel in de zestiende eeuw door de Nederlanden trok en iedereen voor de ge…
Der vierzehnte Dezember
Read by Friedrich
Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Historischer Roman, in dem der Dekabristenaufstand - die erste revolutionäre Erhebung gegen das russische Zarenregime (die Familie Roma…
The Return of Clubfoot
Read by Mark Nelson
Valentine Williams
Whilst spending a holiday in a small Central American Republic, Desmond Okewood, of the Secret Service, learns from a dying beachcomber of a…
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil
Read by Simon Evers
Anthony Trollope
Harry Heathcote is an English ‘squatter’ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sist…
Rough and Ready OR Life Among the New York Newsboys
Read by Tori Faulder
Horatio Alger, Jr.
Join Rough and Ready for his adventure on the streets of New York City. Working as a newsboy, Rough and Ready tries to support himself and h…
The Black-Bearded Barbarian
Read by Edmund Bloxam
Mary Esther Miller Macgregor
A fictionalized biography of George Mackay (1844-1901), an influential Presbyterian missionary in northern Taiwan. (Summary by Edmund Bloxam…
The Antiquary
Read by skoval
Andrew Lang
Illegitimacy, false identity, and bankruptcy are the major elements of Sir Walter Scott's 1816 novel, The Antiquary. Set in the period of th…