Historical Fiction

The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The last of the famous "Scarlet Pimpernel" books, the "Triumph" tells the story of the final confrontation between the S…

Wulf the Saxon

by G. A. Henty Read by Peter John Keeble 4.8
Wulf the Saxon is a classic George Henty tale of nobility, loyalty and courage set in 11th century Britain. It relates the adventures of Wul…

An Unwilling Guest

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by LikeManyWaters 4.6
A young society woman travels to the country to visit her aunt, only to end up as the unwilling guest of a neighboring family. The daughter …

Cross Currents

by Eleanor H. Porter Read by Chiquito Crasto 4.8
Cross Currents: The Story of Margaret, to give it its full title, is delightful story about a little girl’s resilience and a mother’s unwave…

Dangerous Days

by Mary Roberts Rinehart Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.9
Dangerous Days opens in a still neutral America, though within a year the country will have joined the European alliance against the Central…

The Silent Barrier

by Louis Tracy Read by Mary Herndon Bell 4.5
Charles K. Spencer is a well-to-do young American mining engineer. Drinking his water in a hotel in London one day, he overhears a conversat…

The Custom of the Country

by Edith Wharton Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.6
Edith Wharton's 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional M…

Mr. Harrison's Confessions

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by NoelBadrian 4.6
It is asserted that the inspiration for Elizabeth Gaskell's marvellous stories of Cranford was her childhood home of Knutsford, a small tow…

The Little Nugget

by P. G. Wodehouse Read by Mark Nelson 4.7
Mrs Nesta Ford, in her London hotel room, reveals to her new friend Lord Mountry that she hopes to take her son Ogden on a yachting trip pro…

The Rainbow Trail

by Zane Grey Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.6
The Rainbow Trail is a sequel to The Riders of the Purple Sage. Both novels are notable for their protagonists' mild opposition to Mormon po…

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens Read by Mil Nicholson 4.9
"Please sir, I want some more," the famous line spoken by Oliver Twist at age nine, becomes the tipping point of a huge change in …

The Shrieking Pit

by Arthur J. Rees Read by Kevin Green 4.6
The Shrieking Pit is one of Arthur Rees's earlier works, and is a good old fashioned murder mystery story. Grant Colwyn, a private detective…

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfol…

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray Read by Helen Taylor 4.8
One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mo…

The Call Of The Canyon

by Zane Grey Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.5
Glenn Kilbourne returns from the war and travels to Arizona to regain his health. There he is nursed back to health by an Arizona girl, Flo …

The Cat of Bubastes

by G. A. Henty Read by David Leeson 4.7
G.A. Henty’s “tale of ancient Egypt” tells the story of Amuba, prince of the Rebu, who is taken captive when his people are conquered by the…

The Black Arrow

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Mark F. Smith 4.7
In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. …

The Dead Letter

by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.6
Published in 1866, "The Dead Letter: An American Romance" written by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor under the pseudonym, Seeley Rege…

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…

Sir Gibbie

by George MacDonald Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
These are the adventures of Sir Gibbie through the Scotland moors. Not being able to read or speak, Gibbie survives on the streets without a…

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