Historical Fiction

Three Soldiers

by John Dos Passos Read by mb 4.3
Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First Worl…

Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady

by Samuel Richardson Read by Nicole Lee 4.4
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady is a profound exploration of virtue and the struggles of a young woman in 18th-century Engl…

North and South

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
North and South is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, …

The Midnight Queen

by May Agnes Fleming Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
May Agnes Fleming is renowned as Canada's first best-selling novelist. She wrote 42 novels, many of which have only been published posthumou…

The Hill of Dreams

by Arthur Machen Read by Mark Nelson 3.5
The novel recounts the life of a young man, Lucian Taylor, focusing on his dreamy childhood in rural Wales, in a town based on Caerleon. The…

Father Goriot

by Honoré de Balzac Read by James E. Carson 4.2
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 …

The Saga of Erik the Red

by Unknowntranslated Byarthur Middleton Reeves, Translated Byarthur Middleton Reeves and Unknowntranslated By Arthur Middleton Reeves Read by Expatriate 4.3
The Saga of Erik the Red is one of the two important thirteenth-century accounts of the Norse explorations of Greenland and North America, a…

Ten Years Later

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
In Ten Years Later, the saga of the legendary Musketeers continues as Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan navigate the complexities of lo…

Rob Roy

by Sir Walter Scott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
Rob Roy is a historical novel by Walter Scott. It is narrated by Frank Osbaldistone, the son of an English merchant who travels first to the…

Nibelungenlied

by Anonymous Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. The story tells of dragon-slayer Siegfri…

Tales Of King Arthur And The Round Table

by Andrew Lang Read by David Wales 3.8
The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history o…

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens Read by Hamlet 4.8
A small group of people become embroiled in the tumultuous events of the French Revolution. - Summary by Brad Filippone

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838 (from just bef…

The Betrothed

by Alessandro Manzoni Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) presents a kaleidoscope of individual stories, which are all tied together by the story of Lucia and Renzo,…

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen Read by Tony Addison 4.2
If it is a truth universally acknowledged that a good-looking girl cannot fail of attracting a clever young man does it follow that the reve…

The Witch of Salem

by John R. Musick Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
A historical novel about the Salem Witch Trials. A fantastic illustrated historical novel by the prolific American author John R. Musick.Fro…

Agatha Webb

by Anna Katharine Green Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
A universally beloved woman has been murdered. But who would have the heart to kill Agatha Webb? Would her husband do it for money matters? …

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
This story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns a Huron massacre (with passive French a…

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott Read by Abigail Rasmussen 4.6
This story follows the lives of four sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Set in the tumultuous days of the American Civil war, readers grow to lo…

I Am Adam

by James Twerell Read by James Twerell 4.4
This is the book of generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him: male and female created he the…

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