Historical Fiction

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens Read by Mil Nicholson 4.9
In one of Charles Dickens’ most beloved stories, Philip Pirrip, known as “Pip”, narrates his own journey, from the hindsight of 50 years.Pip…

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy Read by Phil Griffiths 4.5
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfol…

Aunt Hannah and Martha and John

by Pansy Read by MaryAnn 4.8
Aunt Hannah's fondest wish had been that her nephew John would marry a local girl and take over the family farm. Trouble was, John was neve…

Anthony Trent, Master Criminal

by Wyndham Martyn Read by Anna Simon 4.8
In 1918, Anthony Trent, a well-educated young man in his late twenties, lives an unsatisfactory life in a New York boarding house. He writes…

Little Men

by Louisa May Alcott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Jo March's dreams of opening a home for boys comes true as she finds herself the mistress of Plumfield, a boarding school for children -- wh…

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope Read by Nick Whitley 4.7
Barchester Towers, published in 1857, is the 2nd novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". It f…

One of the 28th

by G. A. Henty Read by Mike Harris 4.7
One of the 28th transports listeners to the tumultuous era of the Napoleonic Wars, where valor and romance intertwine amidst the chaos of ba…

The Outlaw of Torn

by Edgar Rice Burroughs Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The story is set in 13th century England and concerns the fictitious outlaw Norman of Torn, who purportedly harried the country during the p…

The Moorland Cottage

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
"Maggie Brown is torn between her mother who constantly tells her to live for her selfish brother (to whom she gives all her love) to h…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
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 Herapath Property

by J. S. Fletcher Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.3
Jacob Herapath, a wealthy property developer and member of Parliament, is found dead in his office, a revolver at his side and a bullet woun…

The Ghost Girl

by Henry Kitchell Webster Read by Kate Follis 4.6
Henry Kitchell Webster is an American author best know for his detective novels. The Ghost Girl opens with a murder mystery. A young woman's…

The Young Trailers

by Joseph A. Altsheler Read by A. E. Maroney 4.7
This is the story of Henry Ware, a young boy living in the wilds of the Kentucky frontier of the 1700's. The story follows Henry as he helps…

Rilla of Ingleside

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Anne of Green Gables is all grown up and married, and this is the story of her daughter “Rilla”, named for the indomitable Marilla Cuthbert …

Men of Iron

by Howard Pyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle is historical fiction that transports us back to the 1400's, a time of knighthood and chivalry. Myles Falworth is…

Deep Lake Mystery

by Carolyn Wells Read by Roger Melin 4.3
Imagine, if you will, a murder committed in a sealed room. A room which has been sealed from the inside, that is, with no possible means of …

The Blue Castle

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Valancy Stirling, plain, twenty nine, and as yet unsought, is given a year to live by a great heart specialist. This is the story of her yea…

In the Mayor's Parlour

by J. S. Fletcher Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.5
“Rotten borough” is a term that goes back to the 18th century, and it used to mean a parliamentary constituency in which a few property owne…

The Rain-Girl

by Herbert George Jenkins Read by Anna Simon 4.5
Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he…

The Hand of Ethelberta

by Thomas Hardy Read by Simon Evers 4.4
Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but became a governess and consequently, at the age of 18, married well. However, her husband …

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