Historical Fiction

Kenilworth

by Sir Walter Scott Read by skoval 4.6
An Elizabethan era historical novel by Scotland's master of fiction, Sir Walter Scott. With a cast of historical and created characters, inc…

Words At War

by Hilary Aidan Saint George Saunders, Clark Lee, Boris Voyetekhov, Ralph Parker, C.S. Forester, Robert St. John, Gwen Dew, Charles Spalding, Otis Carney, George Beurling, Leslie Roberts, Fred Herman, Margaret Buell Wilder, Jean Helion, Agnes Smedley, Mark Murphy, Etta Shiber, Corey Ford, Frederick B. Watt, Ernie Pyle, John Mason Brown, Michael Padev, Herbert L. Matthews, Harry Edward Maule, Carlos Peña Romulo, Frank Laskier, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Otto Zoff, Tai-yi Lin, Frederick J. Bell, Robert Goffin, Rackham Holt, Taro Yashima, Selden Menefee, Vicki Baum, George W. Gray, Konrad Heiden, John Hersey, Anna Louise Strong, Vercors, Lawrance Roger Thompson, H. E. Bates, George Creel, Donald Hough, Bernt Balchen, James Norman Hall, Robert Parker, Curt Riess, Lion Feuchtwanger, Willard Waller, Captain Don S. Gentile, Agnes Meyer, Robert Nathan, Jack Belden, Tom Treanor, Kent Cooper, Barbara Klaw, Captain Alfred Friendly, Marie Syrkin, Albert Maltz, Kenneth M. Gould, Oscar Ray, Jan Karski, Louis Nizer, Walter Karig, Welbourn Kelley, Ellwood C. Nance, Wanda Wasilewska, William Bradford Huie, Elliott Arnold, Jim Phelan, William Beveridge, Glenway Wescott, Lionel S. B. Shapiro, Egon Hostovsky, Friedrich A. Hayek, Harry Lever, Joseph Young, George K. Pratt and Russell Davenport 4.7
The NBC program Words At War is a captivating old-time radio series that explores the impact of World War II through dramatizations based on…

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…

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, …

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 …

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 4.6
Treasure Island is an adventure novel narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Traditionally considered a coming-of-age s…

Toothless

by J.P. Moore Read by J.P. Moore 4.4
J. P. Moore's 2009 podcast reinvented the zombie apocalypse, taking it where it had never gone before! Hailed as brutal, dark, and brilliant…

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…

The Tavern Knight

by Rafael Sabatini Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
In the tumultuous era of the English Civil War, Sir Crispin Galliard, known as The Tavern Knight, emerges as an unlikely hero. With a sharp …

A Daughter of the Snows

by Jack London Read by Don W. Jenkins 4.1
In Jack London's first novel, he tells the story of Frona Welse, a strong and interesting heroine, "a Stanford graduate and physical Va…

The Aeneid

by Virgil Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The Aeneid is the most famous Latin epic poem, written by Virgil in the 1st century BC. The story revolves around the legendary hero Aeneas,…

Last Days of Pompeii

by Edward Bulwer-Lytton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
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…

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, based on true events, concerns the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, his assassination i…

The Evil Genius

by Wilkie Collins Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Evil Genius, one of Wilkie Collins' last works, is subtitled "A Domestic Scene". It is the intriguing tale of family Linley, i…

The Man of Property

by John Galsworthy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
'The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. The Man of Pro…

Dead Souls

by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души) by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of …

Healer

by J. K. Swift Read by Brad Wills 3.9
Why would anyone try to kill a healer? Deenah's quiet life as an apprentice healer in the remote village of Brae's Creek is shattered when …

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

by Giacomo Casanova Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This is the first of five volumes. - Giacomo Casanova (1725 in Venice – 1798 in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Vene…

An Outcast Of The Islands

by Joseph Conrad Read by Tom Weiss 3.9
An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the…

Murder at St. Dennis

by Margaret Ann Hubbard Read by Maria Therese 4.2
In the shadowy halls of St. Dennis Hospital, a cunning killer lurks, turning the once-peaceful institution into a scene of dread. As the bod…

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