Historical Fiction
The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants
Read by Lynne T
George Payne Rainsford James
The time of French king Louis XIV was a time of religious conflict. His father, Louis XIII had tried to suppress the teachings and followers…
''Mr Rowl''
Read by Elin
D. K. Broster
Raoul des Sablières, a French parole prisoner in England during the Napoleonic Wars, becomes enmeshed in a complicated tangle where h…
Historia de un Pepe
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José Milla Y Vidaurre
Novela histórico-narrativa de mediados del siglo XIX, donde un recién nacido es abandonado a la puerta de una casa. Luego de s…
A Man from the North
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
Richard Larch, a young man from the north of England, arrives in London to seek his fortune. By day he works as a clerk in an office but has…
Cherry and Violet
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Anne Manning
A Tale of the Great Plague. 1666 was a difficult year in London. With its sordid materialism and its coarse handling of things most sacred, …
Oil!
Read by Bob R
Upton Sinclair
The two main characters of “Oil” are James Arnold Ross, called “Dad”, and his son James Jr., called “Bunny”. The book is loosely based on a …
Hooge Troeven
Read by Marcel Coenders
Louis Couperus
Het derde en laatste deel van de koningsromans van Louis Couperus voorgelezen ter gelegenheid van de kroning van Koning Willem-Alexander en …
Marie Antoinette and Her Son
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Luise Mühlbach
Marie Antoinette lives a happy life in a glittering court as Queen of France, but that soon changes as the revolution begins. Her son is Lo…
The Reign of George VI, 1900-1925: A Forecast Written in the Year 1763
Read by DrPGould
Samuel Madden, Charles Oman and Charles William Chadwick Oman
Imagine a world in which there were no major revolutionary upheavals (the American, French and Russian revolutions did not occur), there was…
In Old Plantation Days
Read by Jim Locke
Paul Laurence Dunbar
With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern p…
In Sight of the Sun
Read by Benjamin Dancer
Benjamin Dancer
The first book in The Father Trilogy: In Sight of the Sun. The old man takes the boy on his first raid into Mexico. The success of the rai…