Historical Fiction
The Boy Knight
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G. A. Henty
Follow young Cuthbert on his adventures which lead him on a crusade to the Holy Land and back. - Summary by Sonia
For The Freedom Of The Seas
Read by Howard Skyman
Ralph Henry Barbour
It is the dawning of World War One and Nelson Troy is young and enthusiastic. Although America is not yet involved in the war effort he drea…
Petticoat Government
Read by Mark Leder
Frances Milton Trollope
The further adventures of young Judith Maitland in the clerical close of Westhampton. - Summary by Mark Leder
Germinal
Read by Carlos Lombardi
Émile Zola
La novela narra la historia de una huelga de mineros en el norte de Francia en la década de 1860. Cada trabajador se vuelve virtualme…
Yellow Butterflies
Read by Lee Smalley
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
The title of this historical fiction could as well have been "A Soldier’s Mother" or “An Unknown Soldier”. There are indeed butter…
A Freira no Subterrâneo
Read by Cristina Luiz
Anonymoustranslated Bycamilo Castelo Branco, Anonymoustranslated By Camilo Castelo Branco and William James McGlothlin
História da freira Bárbara Ubryk, emparedada num subterrâneo de um convento carmelita em Cracóvia, traduzida por …
The House on the Scar
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Bertha Thomas
A superior Victorian Romance. Full from bow to stern with secret romance, jealousies and confrontations of culture and cultures. This autho…
Marriage à la Mode
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
While travelling in the USA, Roger Barnes, a handsome Englishman, meets and falls in love with Daphne Floyd, a rich and determined American.…
De scharlaken letter
Read by Marcel Coenders
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Het werk is een tafereel van het booze in den mensch. Er treden weinig personen in op, maar toch is er handeling genoeg. De hoofdpersoon is …
The Shagganappi
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E. Pauline Johnson
Tales of adventure in the context of white and first nations peoples interacting in North America, told by Tekahionwake, Haudenosaunee of Si…
La cruzada de los niños
Read by Victor Villarraza
Marcel Schwob
La cruzada de los niños, constituye una joya de la literatura universal en la que, mediante una polifonía de voces, ocho mon&o…
Kaleri-orja
Read by Harri Tapani Ylilammi
Heinrich Zschokke
Kaleri-orja on saksalais-sveitsiläinen kirjailijaijan ja pedagogin Heinrich Zschokken lyhyt ja koskettava kertomus, joka sijoittuu 1600…
Het Leven van Hillegonda Buisman
Read by Marcel Coenders
Adriaan Loosjes Pzn.
Een levensbeschrijving van de ideale Hollandse vrouw uit het midden van de 17de eeuw. Deel 1: Van de geboorte tot een ontluikende liefde - …
Zadig or The Book of Fate
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Voltaire
"there is no Evil under the Sun, but some Good proceeds from it:" -- this quote from this novel sums it up. One of Voltaire's most…
The Gleam in the North
Read by Elin
D. K. Broster
Six years have passed since the failed Jacobite rising of 1745. Ewen Cameron's quiet life on his Scottish Highland estate is threatened when…
The Fortune of the Rougons
Read by Mark Leder
Émile Zola
The first book in the 20-novel Rougon-Macquart Cycle. A monument of French naturalism. The sprawling tale of a family in Provence, during …
One Man's Initiation
Read by Mark Leder
John Dos Passos
In this semi-autobiographical work, his first novel, John Dos Passos describes the experiences of young Martin Howe as an ambulance driver, …