Historical Fiction

Hagar of the Pawn-Shop

by Fergus Hume Read by Grant Hurlock 4.4
Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly Lo…

Beric the Briton

by G. A. Henty Read by Gary Olman 4.4
My series of stories dealing with the wars of England would be altogether incomplete did it not include the period when the Romans were the …

The Corsican Brothers

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Alexandre Dumas weaves the compelling story of Siamese twins who are separated physically but never in spirit. When one of the brothers is m…

A Spinner in the Sun

by Myrtle Reed Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and enterta…

King Henry IV

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
King Henry IV, Part 1 is the second of Shakespeare’s eight Wars of the Roses history plays, with events following those of King Richard II. …

The Conjure Woman

by Charles Waddell Chesnutt Read by James K. White 4.5
Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt's first book, The Conjure Woman, was a collection of seven short stories, all set in "P…

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe Read by Larraine Paquette 4.7
This is a deeply moving novel centered around the lives of Uncle Tom and others and which very effectively portrays the suffering caused by …

The Ambulance Made Two Trips

by Murray Leinster Read by Phil Chenevert 4.4
Big Jake Connors is taking over his town through violence, inimidation and bribery but Detective Sergeant Fitzgerald can only grind his teet…

The Lost Girl

by D. H. Lawrence Read by Tony Foster 4.3
"There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl. She was cut off from everything she belonged to."In this most under-valued …

The Return of the Mucker

by Edgar Rice Burroughs Read by Joseph DeNoia 4.2
After being framed for a murder he didn’t commit, law enforcement arrests Billy Byrne…The Mucker… as he returns to the streets of Grand Aven…

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Read by Expatriate 4.6
Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the mo…

The Swoop!

by P. G. Wodehouse Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021) 4
The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies — "England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. I…

Sister Simon's Murder Case

by Margaret Ann Hubbard Read by Maria Therese 4.2
Set in the picturesque wilds of a Midwestern resort town at the height of the tourist season, Sister Simon’s Murder case begins with the mur…

Clotel

by William Wells Brown Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is a novel by William Wells Brown (1814-84), a fugitive from slavery and abolitionist and was published…

Eric Brighteyes

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Brett W. Downey 4.4
The Saga of Eric Brighteyes is the title of an epic viking novel by H. Rider Haggard, and concerns the adventures of its eponymous principal…

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

by Henry Fielding Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foun…

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens Read by Hamlet 4.7
Mr Pickwick, founder of the Pickwick Club, sets out with his three friends, Tupman, Snodgrass, and Winkle, to observe the world. They inten…

The Chief Legatee

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Tony Oliva 4.1
"I was married to-day in Grace Church. At the altar my bride--you probably know her name, Miss Georgian Hazen--wore a natural look, and…

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy Read by Alisson Veldhuis 4.7
Tess of the d'Urbervilles subtitled, "A Pure Woman," is the story of a young working woman named Tess Durbeyfield who is sent by h…

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 4.5
Set in 1925, this is a novel of the Jazz Age; of ambition, of the careless rich, of wild parties and flappers and bootleg booze; and the eff…

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