Historical Fiction

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…

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy Read by Bob Neufeld 4.8
Tess of the d'Urbervilles follows the life of Tess, a young woman of humble origins who discovers her connection to a noble lineage. Set aga…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
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, firs…

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 Yellow House

by E. Phillips Oppenheim Read by Sharon Kilmer 4.3
In a tranquil country village, a vicar and his two daughters seek a fresh start, only to find their new neighbor in the enigmatic yellow hou…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
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 Call of the Wild

by Jack London Read by Phil Chenevert 4.8
The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period…

Eine Ehestandstragödie

by Wilkie Collins Read by Hokuspokus 4.7
Eine reiche Witwe heiratet einen Gentleman ohne Vermögen. Bald schon kommt es zum Streit zwischen den Eheleuten und der Mann verschwind…

The Pretty Lady

by Arnold Bennett Read by Simon Evers 4.1
‘The Pretty Lady’ is considered to be one of Bennett's most revealing and under-rated works. It is the story of a French prostitute, Christi…

Ancient Prophecy

by Richard S. Tuttle Read by Richard S. Tuttle 4.5
Ages ago, elves and dwarves unknowingly migrated between Universes via a Junction. Jenneva and Egam believe they have found a Junction and p…

The Odyssey

by Homer Read by Mark Nelson 4.8
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other Homeric epic.…

The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Crln Yldz Ksr 4.2
A man has been shot dead in his house. Ebenezer Gryce is on the case, but he has no leads, no witnesses, no evidence -- until he decides to …

Ann Veronica

by H. G. Wells Read by Joy Chan 4.4
Ann Veronica was a controversial book detailing the development of a naive school girl into a "New Woman". When it was published, …

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…

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…

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England. S…

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…

King Solomon's Mines

by H. Rider Haggard Read by H. Rider Haggard 4.8
King Solomon's Mines, first published in 1885, was a best-selling novel by the Victorian adventure writer H. Rider Haggard. It relates a jou…

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…

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…

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