Historical Fiction

Samson Agonistes

Read by Martin Geeson


John Milton


“The Sun to me is darkAnd silent as the Moon,When she deserts the nightHid in her vacant interlunar cave.”Milton composes his last extended …

Joshua

Read by Ann Boulais


Georg Ebers


Hosea is a commander in Pharaoh's army... and a Hebrew. As he returns home from war, he finds that there has been a great pestilence in Egy…

Iola Leroy

Read by James K. White


Frances E. W. Harper


This is the story of Iola Leroy, a free-born, mixed-race woman who passed as white. Her true racial identity eventually discovered, she was …

A Great Man: a Frolic

Read by Simon Evers


Arnold Bennett


Subtitled 'A Frolic', this light-hearted book follows the fortunes of Henry Shakespeare Knight who, rather to his own surprise, writes a bes…

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

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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…

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 …

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, …

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…

Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf

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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…

The Keeper of the Bees

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Gene Stratton-Porter


Threatened with isolation in a sanitorium for tuberculosis, a young soldier escapes and finds himself healing in a paradisal bee-garden by t…

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…

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…

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…

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 &…

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…

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…

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