Faithful Journeys in History

This collection features historical fiction that intertwines faith and personal journeys, showcasing characters who navigate challenges and transformations through their Christian beliefs. Each story offers a unique perspective on how faith shapes lives against the backdrop of significant historical events.

Elsie's Widowhood

by Martha Finley Read by Rachel 4.7
Elsie's Widowhood continues the poignant journey of Elsie Dinsmore as she navigates the profound changes brought by the loss of her beloved …

Tor, A Street Boy of Jerusalem

by Florence Morse Kingsley Read by Patrick Saville 4.7
Tor is a young beggar living in the city of Jerusalem during the tumultuous time of the Roman occupation. Shouts of hope are the last thing …

Fern's Hollow

by Hesba Stretton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Ferns Hollow is the sad, but sweet story of a young boy who tragically loses his parents and has to care for his two sisters and crazed gran…

By What Authority?

by Robert Hugh Benson Read by Carol Pelster 4.6
Two wealthy families are neighbors in Elizabethan England; one is staunchly Catholic and the other is devoutly Protestant. The attractive yo…

Ben-Hur

by Lew Wallace Read by Mark F. Smith 4.9
Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator wh…

Elsie's Motherhood

by Martha Finley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Elsie's Motherhood follows the journey of Elsie, a young woman navigating the complexities of life in the South after the Civil War. As her …

The Browns at Mt. Hermon

by Pansy Read by BookAngel7 4.6
When she mistakenly receives an offer of work addressed only to "Mary Brown," the lonely young heiress Mary Thornton Brown forms a…

Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police

by Ralph Connor Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Cameron, a young man from Edinburgh, is a university student who is a rising star on the football team. When the big day comes and he nearly…

From Jest to Earnest

by Edward P. Roe Read by LikeManyWaters 4.6
As a practical joke at a house party, a young and beautiful socialite tries to make a fool out of a visiting young missionary to amuse her f…

The Man of the Desert

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by LikeManyWaters 4.8
Fleeing from an aggressive suitor, Hazel Radcliffe becomes hopelessly lost in the Arizona desert. Exhausted, she falls unconscious from her …

Titus

by Florence Morse Kingsley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Titus: A Comrade of the cross is a book full of suspense and drama, but more importantly truth. It is about Titus, a young man living in the…

Aunt Crete's Emancipation

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by Cori Samuel 4.8
Aunt Lucretia — 'Crete' to her family — is a sweet, patient older woman, who lives with her narrow-minded sister and spoilt niece, acting as…

A Prairie-Schooner Princess

by Mary Katherine Maule Read by Sharon Kilmer 4.7
The story of a Quaker family's journey from Ohio to Nebraska beginning in 1856. They encounter a mystery which leaves them an orphan girl wh…

Unto Caesar

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
"The State," he said, speaking at least as haughtily as Dea Flavia herself, "hath agreed to accept the sum of twenty aurei fo…

A Red Wallflower

by Susan Warner Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
A motherless girl finds life very lonely living with only her dour father and two servants in the quiet New England countryside. Lonely, tha…

Opening a Chestnut Burr

by Edward P. Roe Read by LikeManyWaters 4.7
Walter Gregory is a gentleman whose health is broken down by the stress of Wall Street and the consequences of his fast lifestyle. Disillusi…

Malcolm

by George MacDonald Read by Devorah Allen 4.8
Malcolm MacPhail has lived, for all of his twenty or so years, in a fishing village on the north coast of Scotland. He lives with his grandf…

Making Fate

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.7
A group of young adults away on a nutting expedition is delayed in a hospitable home by a sudden rainstorm. After the storm, Marjorie insist…

Donal Grant

by George MacDonald Read by Devorah Allen 4.9
After leaving home in search of work, Donal Grant accepts a position as tutor to a young boy who lives in a sprawling castle, which also hou…

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…