Historical Fiction
A Group of Noble Dames
Read by Libby Gohn
Thomas Hardy
The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of…
La Gitanilla
Read by KendalRigans
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
La Gitanilla relata la historia de una gitana joven que fue conocida por todos los lugares donde anduvo a causa de su extrema belleza y a la…
Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross
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Florence Morse Kingsley
This is a unique sequel to the book Titus: A Comrade of the Cross written in a very different style, though none the less memorable, full of…
The Mill on the Floss (Version 2)
Read by Tom Denholm
George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the l…
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel…
Old Rose And Silver
Read by Daryl Wor
Myrtle Reed
The novel follows the lives of Rose and her widowed Aunt, Madame Francesca Bernard, along with young visitor and cousin Isabel, whose lives …
Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
Read by clarinetcarrot
George W. M. Reynolds
Wagner is a poor, lonely old shepherd living on the edge of the Black Forest. In a devil's pact he gains youth and wealth for the price of t…
His Masterpiece
Read by Lisa Reichert
Émile Zola
“His Masterpiece" (“L’Oeuvre”) is a fictionalized account of the Parisian art world in the mid 19th century, and the emerging Realism, …
Richard of Jamestown: A Story of the Virginia Colony
Read by Laura Caldwell
James Otis
Richard of Jamestown by James Otis was written for children with the purpose to show them the daily home life of the Virginia colonists. It …
'Tilda Jane
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Marshall Saunders
When spunky 'Tilda Jane isn't allowed to keep her beloved dog with her at the orphanage, she decides to set out on her own in search of a ho…
War and Peace, Volume 1 (Maude translation)
Read by Mark Nelson
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy’s epic historical novel chronicling the Napoleonic war in Russia. Considered one of the greatest works of literature of all time…
Windsor Castle, Book 1
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William Harrison Ainsworth
Book 1 - Anne Boleyn. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as h…
The Forty-Five Guardsmen
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
The sequel to "Chicot the Jester" and final book of the "Valois Romances." This story begins six years after the famed &…
Der Heilige
Read by Hans Hafen
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Die Rahmenhandlung der Novelle "Der Heilige" bildet Hans der Armbruster, der im Jahre 1180 im Rückblick die dramatische Leben…
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreord…
Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country
Read by Roger Melin
Irving Bacheller
Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country. Having lost both parents and his home in northern Vermont, orphan Willie Brower is taken in by Eb…
A Tale of Two Cities (Version 5)
Read by Richard Reiman
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities is a novel that views the eighteenth century French Revolution through the lens of nineteenth century…
The Trumpet-Major
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Thomas Hardy
Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments pr…
The Spoilers
Read by Tom Weiss
Rex Beach
Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan to a prominent family and pursued a career as a lawyer before being drawn to Alaska at the time of th…