Historical Fiction
More Tish
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote 6 books about the elderly Letitia (Tish) Carberry and the escapades she gets her elderly lady cronies into. The…
Fast in the Ice
Read by Esther
R. M. Ballantyne
At the age of 16 Ballantyne went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. His rule in writing, being in every…
Last Days of Pompeii
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culmi…
David Elginbrod
Read by Kenneth R. Morefield
George MacDonald
David Elginbrod was George MacDonald's first real success, a novel of Scottish country life. Published in 1862, it was dedicated to the memo…
At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War
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G. A. Henty
The story of the war in which the power of the great Mahratta confederacy was broken ended in the firm establishment of the British Empire t…
Father Goriot
Read by James E. Carson
Honoré de Balzac
One of Balzac's most popular works, set around 1815 during the re-ascendancy of the Bourbon kings following the defeat of Napoleon. Said to …
The Marriage of William Ashe
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
William Ashe, an up and coming politician, impulsively marries Kitty, a young, flighty and strange girl who, far from supporting her husband…
The Great Gold Rush: A Tale of the Klondike
Read by Cate Barratt
William Henry Pope Jarvis
Canadian journalist William Jarvis' gently fictionalized work recounts many of the countless fascinating tales of the Klondike Gold Rush in …
Uli der Knecht
Read by Hans Hafen
Jeremias Gotthelf
Der Roman Uli der Knecht von Jeremias Gotthelf (1797-1854) erschien 1841. Es handelt sich formal um einen pikaresk angelegten Roman. Die Epi…
A Horse's Tale (Version 2)
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
A Horse's Tale is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), written partially in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buffalo Bill's favorite hors…
The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow
Read by Erin Schellhase
Allen French
Rolf, a youth in early Christian Iceland, loses first his father, then his property, and finally his freedom to the schemes of a greedy neig…
Casa Velha
Read by Felipe Vale da Silva
Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis
Com o fim de escrever um livro sobre a história do Primeiro Reinado, um cônego procura conhecer uma casa onde morou um ex-minis…
The Daughter of the Commandant
Read by Kevin W. Davidson
Alexander Pushkin
"The Daughter of the Commandant" (better known as "The Captain's Daughter") is a historical novel by the Russian writer …
Jewish Children (Yudishe Kinder)
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
שלום עליכם Sholem Aleichem
Although written from a child's perspective, this is not a kids book but a series of funny, poignant, and sometimes disturbing stories about…
Trail's End
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George W. Ogden
When an agriculture professor wanders into a wicked Kansas cowtown in order to experiment raising wheat, both the professor and the town get…
Red Pottage
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Cholmondeley
The book follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with th…
Los Miserables: Tomo IV
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Victor Hugo
Mario, con ayuda de Eponine, consigue encontrar a Cosette viviendo con Juan Valjean en la calle Plumet. Se inicia un apasionado idilio entre…
Christmas at Thompson Hall
Read by Arnold
Anthony Trollope
"A Mid-Victorian Christmas Tale"; tells of a night time encounter between relatives who had never before met, resulting in minor i…
The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi)
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Alessandro Manzoni
The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) presents a kaleidoscope of individual stories, which are all tied together by the story of Lucia and Renzo,…
Max Havelaar
Read by Anna Simon
Multatuli
“Max Havelaar, of de koffij-veilingen der Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij” is in 1860 geschreven door Multatuli (pseudoniem van Eduard Dou…