Historical Fiction
The Bishop's Secret
Read by David Wales
Fergus Hume
Bishop Pendle is the Church of England bishop in a small fictitious English cathedral town. Several years into his work, he receives a visit…
Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire
Read by Cate Barratt
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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…
A Lady of Quality
Read by Linda Andrus
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Set in late 1600's England, the story follows the life of a woman living an unconventional life. The loves of her life and all of its ups an…
Beric the Briton: a Story of the Roman Invasion
Read by Gary Olman
G. A. Henty
My series of stories dealing with the wars of England would be altogether incomplete did it not include the period when the Romans were the …
The Fur Country
Read by Esther
Jules Verne
In 1859, officers of the Hudson's Bay Company travel through the Northwest Territories of Canada on a mission to found a fort at 70 degrees,…
The Emperor's Candlesticks
Read by Kevin Green
Baroness Emma Orczy
When a group of Russian anarchists kidnap a Russian prince in Vienna there are repercussions. On learning that the Cardinal d'Orsay has agre…
The Midnight Queen
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
May Agnes Fleming
May Agnes Fleming is renowned as Canada's first best-selling novelist. She wrote 42 novels, many of which have only been published posthumou…
In Freedom's Cause
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G. A. Henty
Another stirring tale from the master of historical fiction set in the time of Robert Bruce and William Wallace and their struggle for Scotl…
Libro II de la Historia de Heródoto
Read by Tux
Herodotus
Las Historias (en griego antiguo ἱστορίαι historíai 'aproximaciones, investigaciones') de Heródoto de Halicarnaso (484–despu&e…
Biographien der Selbstmörder, 1. Teil
Read by Rainer
Christian Heinrich Spieß
Die "Biographien der Selbstmörder" sind keine wirklichen Biographien, sondern eine Sammlung von kurzen Geschichten, die meist…
A Journal of the Plague Year
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Daniel Defoe
The novel is a fictionalized account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The boo…
With Frederick The Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War
Read by Gary Olman
G. A. Henty
Among the great wars of history there are few, if any, instances of so long and successfully sustained a struggle, against enormous odds, as…
A Prairie-Schooner Princess
Read by Sharon Kilmer
Mary Katherine Maule
The story of a Quaker family's journey from Ohio to Nebraska beginning in 1856. They encounter a mystery which leaves them an orphan girl wh…
One of the 28th - a Tale of Waterloo
Read by Mike Harris
G. A. Henty
A tale of Victorian-style romance, maritime battles and even the penultimate Napoleonic battle - Waterloo. (Introduction by Mike Harris)
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
Read by Phil Griffiths
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity - he is u…
The Tiger of Mysore
Read by Mike Harris
G. A. Henty
During the Indian war with Tippoo Saib, 15 year old Dick Holland and his mother set out from England to find and rescue his father, shipwrec…
Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis
Read by Mongope
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
La obra se centra en los acontecimientos acaecidos durante la primera guerra mundial en la que se ven enfrentadas dos familias procedentes d…
Scaramouche
Read by Gord Mackenzie
Rafael Sabatini
Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a la…
Pearl Maiden
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H. Rider Haggard
This is the story of Miriam, an orphan Christian woman living in Rome in the first century. She falls in love with a Roman officer, but know…
The Prairie - A Tale
Read by William Peck
James Fenimore Cooper
The story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen and Abiram slowly making their way across the virgin prairies of the Midwest looking for a h…