Historical Fiction
De Ellendigen - Deel 3 - Marius
Read by Marcel Coenders
Victor Hugo
De Ellendigen is een vertaling van Les Miserables, een sociale roman, met een sterke moraal. Hugo neemt het in zijn werk op voor de paria’s …
White Cockades: An Incident of the "Forty-Five"
Read by Elin
Edward Prime-Stevenson and Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
In the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite uprising, the young Andrew Boyd meets a fugitive from the redcoats, a man whom Andrew soon grows to ad…
One Man's Initiation--1917
Read by Mark Leder
John Dos Passos
In this semi-autobiographical work, his first novel, John Dos Passos describes the experiences of young Martin Howe as an ambulance driver, …
The Actress in High Life: An Episode in Winter Quarters
Read by Celine Major
Susan Petigru King-Bowen
1812 is the year and Portugal the location for this adventure. The characters for the most part are British officers. Lord Strathern sends f…
The Great Gatsby (Version 5 Dramatic Reading)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a haunting portrait of ambition, love, and illusion in 1920s America. Narrated by Nick Carraway, …
The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
Read by Lauren Huff
Mary Shelley
After the brutal and turbulent Wars of the Roses, Henry VII reigned over England and the sons of his rival Edward IV, once held captive in t…
The Flight of the Shadow
Read by Ben Tucker
Laura M. Dake
The original printing of The Flight of the Shadow is a highly sought novel among collectors and tells the tale of an Astral soul who tells a…
G.T.T., or The Wonderful Adventures of a Pullman
Read by John Greenman
Edward Everett Hale
More than a generation ago, a common joke when an insolvent debtor or any other loafer who had changed his home, wished to leave warning beh…
The Robbers Cave: a Tale of Italy
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Charlotte Maria Tucker
Sixteen-year-old Horace Cleveland thinks of nobody but himself. While traveling with his mother across the Calabrian countryside on their wa…
The Fortune of the Rougons, Book One of Rougon-Macquart Cycle (Version 2)
Read by Mark Leder
Émile Zola
The first book in the 20-novel Rougon-Macquart Cycle. A monument of French naturalism. The sprawling tale of a family in Provence, during …
Order Number 11
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Caroline Abbot Stanley
General Order No. 11 has been issued by Union General Thomas Ewing in 1863. The goal was to deprive pro-Confederates in western Missouri of …
Privy Seal: His Last Venture
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Ford Madox Ford
This is the second book in Ford's Fifth Queen trilogy, a series of historical novels presenting a fictionalized version of the life of Katha…
Richelieu: A Tale of France
Read by Lynne T
George Payne Rainsford James
Written in three volumes, this fictionalized biography of Richelieu is supposedly based on a manuscript that fell into the author's hands an…