Historical Fiction

Henry Dunbar

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
In this novel by Victorian sensationalist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry Dunbar returns to England after a 30-year exile to India for committ…

The Little Duke

by Charlotte Mary Yonge Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
The Little Duke tells the captivating story of Richard, the young Duke of Normandy, who ascends to his title at the tender age of eight foll…

The Opal Serpent

by Fergus Hume Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.5
An old pawnbroker is found strangled with his lips pinned together with an opal serpent broach. He has a beautiful daughter who is apparentl…

Pearl Maiden

by H. Rider Haggard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This is the story of Miriam, an orphan Christian woman living in Rome in the first century. She falls in love with a Roman officer, but know…

Pauline's Passion and Punishment

by Louisa May Alcott Read by Elizabeth Klett 4
Before she wrote Little Women and Little Men, Louisa, writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, had this `blood and thunder' thriller (as sh…

The Old English Baron

by Clara Reeve Read by MaryAnn 4.4
The story follows the adventures of Sir Philip Harclay, who returns to medieval England to find that the castle seat and estate of his frien…

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,…

Redburn

by Herman Melville Read by James K. White 4.5
Melville wrote of some of his earliest experiences at sea in the story of Wellingborough Redburn, a wet-behind-the-ears youngster whose head…

Children of the Ghetto

by Israel Zangwill Read by Adrian Praetzellis 4.8
In this 1892 novel of London's Jewish East End, Israel Zangwill sets the apparently irrational and decidedly indecorous religious practices …

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens Read by Peter John Keeble 4.8
Great Expectations is written in the first person and is virtually a fictional autobiography of “Pip” from his childhood, through often pain…

The Devil's Paw

by E. Phillips Oppenheim Read by Tom Weiss 4.4
In a world teetering on the brink of chaos, The Devil's Paw weaves a complex tale of loyalty and deception. At its heart is a beautiful and …

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway Read by KevinS 4.1
The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first novel to be published, though there is his novella The Torrents of Spring which was publishe…

The Rainbow

by D. H. Lawrence Read by Tony Foster 4.3
Briefly appearing in 1915, then banned and taken out of circulation for its adult treatment of sexuality, Lawrence's visionary novel The Rai…

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…

Call of the Herald

by Brian Rathbone Read by Brian Rathbone 4.3
A World of Godsland novel. Echoes of the ancients' power are distant memories, tattered and faded by the passage of eons, but that is about …

The Dragon Of Wantley

by Owen Wister Read by David Wales 4.5
A novel, The Dragon of Wantley, was written by Owen Wister (best known as the author of The Virginian) in 1892. Published by Lipincott Press…

The Three Clerks

by Anthony Trollope Read by Anthony Ogus 4.5
Romance and crime in the mid-19th century British Civil Service. In this early novel,Trollope draws on his own experiences as a junior clerk…

As We Forgive Them

by William Le Queux Read by Tom Weiss 4.4
Gilbert Greenwood and Reginald Seton are bachelors who share a flat on Great Russell Street. Neither are especially prosperous but through e…

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Northanger Abbey follows seventeen-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Ba…

The Shadow of Black Wings

by James Calbraith Read by James Calbraith 4.3
It is the Sixteenth Year of Queen Victoria. In the powerful empire of Dracaland, Bran, a young dragon rider, joins his father on a military …

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