Historical Fiction

The Pearl of Orr's Island

by Harriet Beecher Stowe Read by Bridget Gaige 4.5
Go on a journey to the coast of Maine and immerse yourself in the picturesque community on Orr’s Island. See the raindrops glistening on the…

Persuasion

by Jane Austen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marri…

The House of the Dead

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by Expatriate 4.6
The House of the Dead is a novel published in 1861 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian p…

History of the Kings of Britain

by Geoffrey Of Monmouth Read by Paul Mazumdar 4.4
More medieval romance than history, Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae represents the oldest versions we have of many legends …

Cynthia Wakeham's Money

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.2
A young lawyer is called to the house of a dying woman to draw up her will. While searching for her legal heirs, meets a beautiful woman wit…

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas Read by David Clarke 4.9
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo is an adventure novel and one of the author's most popular works. He completed the work in 1844. The story takes pl…

By Pike and Dyke

by G. A. Henty Read by David Leeson 4.6
It is the 1570's, and the people of the Netherlands live in terror under the cruel dominion of Spain. Though many long to be free of Spanish…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

The Doings of Raffles Haw

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Patrick Wells 4.4
The people of the small town of Tamfield are not used to exciting things happening. When millionaire Raffles Haw moves to town, rumors sprea…

The Guns of Shiloh

by Joseph A. Altsheler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Northern Army has just be handed a great defeat at Bull Run and is headed back to Washington, DC. How will the North answer this defeat?…

A Texas Cowboy

by Charles A. Siringo Read by David Wales 4.4
Charles A. Siringo was an American lawman, detective, and agent for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency during the late 19th century and…

A Study In Scarlet

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Robert Dixon 4.8
"A Study in Scarlet" is the first ever Sherlock Holmes story split into two quite distinctive parts. The first part is told from …

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
This is a short novel published in 1895 and based vaguely on the battle of Chancellorsville of the American Civil War. Unlike other works on…

In the Reign of Terror

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Like all Henty books, this one centers around a young English lad whose courtesy and courage win the day. Harry Sandwith travels to France t…

The Hermit of ---- Street

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Laura Victoria 4.2
Delight Hunter spends her days looking out of her window at her handsome but very mysterious and reclusive next door neighbor. She walks st…

Titus

by Florence Morse Kingsley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Titus: A Comrade of the cross is a book full of suspense and drama, but more importantly truth. It is about Titus, a young man living in the…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

Twelve Years in the Saddle

by W. John L. Sullivan Read by Will the Ninja 4.6
Sergeant Sullivan tells the story of his life as a Texas Ranger for 12 incredible years in the late 1800s. (Summary by Will Nuessle)

The Mystery of the Chinese Ring

by Andy Adams Read by Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022) 4.5
The Mystery of the Chinese Ring is an exotic adventure story and is set in locations such as Burma and China, with the historical and politi…

The Turn Of The Tide

by Eleanor H. Porter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
"What a joy! How exciting!" Margret Kendall returned home, to her loving and equally beloved mother's arms after 4 years in the sl…

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