Historical Fiction
The Surgeon's Daughter
Read by Deon Gines
Sir Walter Scott
The Surgeon's Daughter is an historical novel, originally part of the Chronicles of the Canongate stories, later published on its own, in 18…
All Quiet on the Western Front
Read by Atul Sharma
Erich Maria Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front is an iconic anti-war novel. A semi-autobiographical work by WWI veteran Erich Maria Remarque, it is the stor…
Willem Tell
Read by Marcel Coenders
Pieter Louwerse
Het wereld beroemde verhaal van Willem Tell door Pieter Louwerse opnieuw verteld. - Summary by Marcel Coenders
Wisdom's Daughter
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H. Rider Haggard
A strange manuscript in an unknown language is found among the effects of the late Professor Horace Holly. Its translator discovers that whi…
The Fair Maid of Perth, Or, St. Valentine's Day
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Sir Walter Scott
Henry Gow has fallen in love with the Fair Maid of Perth, Catherine, the glovemaker's daughter. To make sure that he would be the first pers…
Die Ahnen - Marcus König
Read by Bernd Ungerer
Gustav Freytag
Mit dem 4. Band der Ahnen-Reihe sind wir in der Zeit Martin Luthers angekommen. Die Erzählung Marcus König setzt 1519 in Thorn ein…
The Courtship of Susan Bell
Read by Simon Evers
Anthony Trollope
Susan lives with her overbearing sister in a boarding house in Saratoga Springs run by their timid mother. A knock on the door brings an une…
Human Toll
Read by Kirsty Leishman
Barbara Baynton
Ursula (Ursie) Ewart, orphaned as a young child, is sent away from her home in the Australian bush. While Ursie was previously doted on by s…
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3
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George MacDonald
’St. George and St. Michael’ is a little-known historical romance telling the story of a young couple who find themselves on opposing sides …
The Dream: a novel
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H. G. Wells
The story is set in a Utopian future. On an excursion, Sarnac, relates his vivid dream to his friends and recounts how he lived the entire l…
The First Sir Percy: An Adventure of the Laughing Cavalier
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Baroness Emma Orczy
Sequel to The Laughing Cavalier, The First Sir Percy picks up the cavalier’s story three months later. The second novel in Baroness Orczy’s …
The Shooting Party
Read by Bryn Roberts
Anton Chekhov
"The Shooting Party" is a mystery, set in the Russian countryside. The story revolves around the murder of a beautiful young woman…
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 5: The Countess of Charny
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
This 5th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins after the fall of the Bastille and the March on Versailles, which forced Louis XVI a…
Captain John Crane, 1800 - 1815
Read by Tom Hirsch (1947-2022)
Thomas Wallace Knox
John and David grew up best of friends, outgoing and full of adventure. Living but miles from the sea west of Boston, right on the cusp of m…
Ticonderoga; A Story of Early Frontier Life in the Mohawk Valley
Read by Lynne T
George Payne Rainsford James
In the backwoods, lives a man and his two teenage children. He has sought the quiet life on the frontier, although he is a friend to all and…
Redgauntlet
Read by Deon Gines
Sir Walter Scott
Redgauntlet is an historical novel about a fictitious third Jacobite rebellion. It takes place mostly in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in 1765. I…
We Were There at the Normandy Invasion
Read by Wayne Cooke
Clayton Knight
D-Day: 6 June 1944. The date of the invasion of the Normandy Coast of France by the Allies. This novel gives a different look at that invasi…