Historical Fiction

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…

La Tulipe noire

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Alexandre Dumas


Si ce titre évoque pour vous un roman de cape et d'épée, détrompez-vous. Mais ne vous détournez pas !Ce c…

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…

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…

Los Miserables: Tomo III

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Victor Hugo


En este tercer volumen aparece Marius. Mario es criado por su abuelo, éste le hace creer que su padre, un coronel del ejército…

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 …

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 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…

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 …

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…

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez


The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Vicente Blasco Ibañez and translated into English by Charlotte Brewster Jordan, depicts two b…

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 …

Christmas at Thompson Hall

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Anthony Trollope


"A Mid-Victorian Christmas Tale"; tells of a night time encounter between relatives who had never before met, resulting in minor i…

A Horse's Tale (Version 2)

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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…

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…

Jewish Children (Yudishe Kinder)

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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