Historical Fiction

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas Read by Mark F. Smith 4.8
D’Artagnan, son of a poor Gascon aristocrat, travels to Paris to seek his fortune. His family connections enable him to obtain a position in…

The Rain-Girl

by Herbert George Jenkins Read by Anna Simon 4.5
Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he…

The Hand of Ethelberta

by Thomas Hardy Read by Simon Evers 4.4
Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but became a governess and consequently, at the age of 18, married well. However, her husband …

Household Puzzles

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.7
Household Puzzles peeks into the life of the Randolph family, four daughters and one son. They are financially strapped but must follow soci…

The Man Who Fell Through the Earth

by Carolyn Wells Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
A lawyer is leaving his office on the top floor of an office building. He sees the shadows of two men fighting through the clouded glass of …

Diary of a U-boat Commander

by Stephen King-Hall Read by Mark F. Smith 4.6
Captain Karl von Schenk of the Kaiser's Navy is a stereotypical German nobleman - supremely self-confident, touchy about the divisions of cl…

The Virginian

by Owen Wister Read by MichelleHarris 4.5
Ostensibly a love story, the novel really revolves around a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War in 1890's Wyoming ... The …

A Study In Scarlet

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by David Clarke 4.8
A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detectiv…

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by Mark Nelson 4.7
Crime and Punishment is the second of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from 5 years of exile in Siberia, and is …

Uncle Bernac

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Cate Barratt 4.5
Looking for a replacement to Sherlock Holmes after the author had killed him off in 1894, Doyle wrote this murder mystery in the dying years…

The Postmaster's Daughter

by Louis Tracy Read by Sharon Kilmer 4.3
A charming mystery story set in the early 1900s which is as much about the townspeople, sleuths and othercolorful characters as it is about …

The Circular Study

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Jacquerie 4.4
In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He…

Works and Days

by Hesiod Read by Arthur Krolman 4.6
Works and Days provides advice on agrarian matters and personal conduct. The Theogony explains the ancestry of the gods. The Shield of Herac…

The Golden Calf

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by Tara Dow 4.6
A late 19th Century sensation novel following the young life of Ida Palliser as she searches for fortune and love within England's Gentry Cl…

The Young Carthaginian

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Typically, Henty's heroes are boys of pluck in troubled times, and this is no different. Detailed research is embellished with a vivid imagi…

The Gold Bag

by Carolyn Wells Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.3
In a world of wealth and intrigue, a millionaire is found dead in his study, setting off a chain of events that unravels the lives of those …

Little Lord Fauntleroy

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This story is about an American lad of 7 years old who lives with his young widowed mother in New York. He spends his days with his friend t…

The Efficiency Expert

by Edgar Rice Burroughs Read by Delmar H Dolbier 4.7
Our hero, Jimmy Torrance, Jr., has a hard time finding suitable employment after a brilliant (athletically, at least) college career, despit…

The Leavenworth Case

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Kevin Green 4.5
The Leavenworth Case is a gripping detective novel set in New York, and is one of the first detective fiction novels to be written by a fema…

At Agincourt

by G. A. Henty Read by Mike Harris 4.7
The story begins in a grim feudal castle in Normandie. The times were troublous, and soon the king compelled Lady Margaret de Villeroy, with…

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