Historical Fiction

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England. S…

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens Read by Hamlet 4.7
Mr Pickwick, founder of the Pickwick Club, sets out with his three friends, Tupman, Snodgrass, and Winkle, to observe the world. They inten…

Marguerite de Valois

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.4
A historical fiction novel set in Paris (1572) during Charles IX's reign and the French Wars of Religion. Marguerite de Valois, daughter of …

Beric the Briton

by G. A. Henty Read by Gary Olman 4.4
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 Possessed

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by Expatriate 4.5
Although titled The Possessed in the initial English translation, Dostoyevsky scholars and later translations favour the titles The Devils o…

I Will Repay

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by Annie Kirkpatrick 4.1
I Will Repay is the thrilling sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, continuing the adventures of the enigmatic hero, Sir Percy Blakeney. Set agai…

The Great White Queen

by William Le Queux Read by Tom Weiss 4.4
How to describe this book? In a word – savage. For those regular LibriVox Le Queux mystery listeners, this book is a step in a different dir…

The Ghost

by Arnold Bennett Read by Simon Evers 4.4
The novel opens with Carl Foster, a recently qualified doctor, coming to London to try and make his fortune. He meets a famous tenor, Signor…

Under Western Eyes

by Joseph Conrad Read by Expatriate 4.5
Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is vie…

Elizabeth and her German Garden

by Elizabeth Von Arnim Read by ashleighjane 4.6
Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, first published in 1898; it was very popular and frequently reprinted dur…

The Elder Edda

by Sæmund Sigfusson Read by Expatriate 4.7
The Elder or Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems dating from the thirteenth century CE. Though no two translators or editors seem…

Waverley

by Sir Walter Scott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or…

The House in the Mist

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Crln Yldz Ksr 4.4
It was a night to drive any man indoors. Not only was the darkness impenetrable, but the raw mist enveloping hill and valley made the open r…

The Hermit of ---- Street

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Laura Victoria 4.2
Delight Hunter spends her days looking out of her window at her handsome but very mysterious and reclusive next door neighbor. She walks st…

La Señora de Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert Read by Victor Villarraza 4.7
La soñadora Emma, una joven de provincias casada con Charles Bovary, quien la ama pero es incapaz de comprenderla y satisfacerla, bus…

The Mucker

by Edgar Rice Burroughs Read by Joseph DeNoia 4.2
Grown and raised on the streets of Chicago; a ruthless, brawling beast of a man who detests all that “class” and “highbrow society” has to o…

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley Read by Thomas A. Copeland 4.7
A mentally unstable genius, Victor Frankenstein, inspired by the dreams of ancient alchemists and empowered by modern science, creates a hum…

The Talisman

by Sir Walter Scott Read by Lizzie Driver 4.3
The Talisman is a gripping tale set near the end of the Third Crusade. King Richard the Lionheart is grievously ill, and all around him the …

Can You Forgive Her?

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
“Can You Forgive Her?” is the first in a series of six Trollope novels dealing broadly with 19th Century English political scene. It introdu…

Der Hund von Baskerville

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Karlsson 4.8
Dartmoor, England, Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Der alte Sir Charles Baskerville wird in der Allee vor seinem Landsitz in Dartmoor, wo er sp&a…

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