Historical Fiction

A Journal of the Plague Year

by Daniel Defoe Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) 4.6
The novel is a fictionalized account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The boo…

Kitty Alone

by Sabine Baring-Gould Read by MaryAnn 4.6
Kate Quarm is a bright and sensitive girl. She lives with her aunt and uncle at Coombe Cellers, a farmhouse, eating house and store occupyi…

The Clue

by Carolyn Wells Read by Roger Melin 4.4
Once Carolyn Wells began, or re-invented her writing career, 'The Clue' was her initial book which strayed from children's writings into mys…

The Laughing Cavalier

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The enigmatic smile of The Laughing Cavalier of Franz Hals' famous painting invites you to wonder just what mischievousness hides behind tha…

The Bishop's Secret

by Fergus Hume Read by David Wales 4.5
Bishop Pendle is the Church of England bishop in a small fictitious English cathedral town. Several years into his work, he receives a visit…

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy Read by MaryAnn 4.7
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 4, An…

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy Read by MaryAnn 4.7
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 8, Vr…

The Eyes Of The World

by Harold Bell Wright Read by Tom Weiss 4.7
The Eyes of the World was the Best Selling Book for 1914 according to Publisher's Weekly. The novel explores what Harold Bell Wright views a…

Middlemarch

by George Eliot Read by Margaret Espaillat 4.7
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh n…

The Children of the New Forest

by Frederick Marryat Read by Nick Whitley 4.6
The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is set in the time of the English Civil War …

The Big Blue Soldier

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by LikeManyWaters 4.5
Back from the Great War, a penniless and disillusioned young soldier finds himself in the home of Miss Marilla Chadwick, a sweet old lady wh…

The Benefactress

by Elizabeth Von Arnim Read by Helen Taylor 4.4
Anna Estcourt, twenty-five and beautiful, is the penniless ward of her distant brother and his exasperating wife. Turning down all offers of…

The Gloved Hand

by Burton Egbert Stevenson Read by Don W. Jenkins 4.5
Mr. Lester, a private investigator, and his friend Godfrey are caught up in a strange case that takes them to a large estate in the country …

The Pathfinder

by James Fenimore Cooper Read by Mark F. Smith 4.6
Natty Bumppo goes by many names: La Longue Carabine, Hawk Eye, Leatherstocking, and in this tale, The Pathfinder. Guide, scout, hunter, and …

The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet

by Burton Egbert Stevenson Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
Three men are dead. Killed by a very powerful poison. Their deaths seem to be connected to a very old cabinet purchased in France and a noto…

The Story of a Whim

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by LikeManyWaters 4.6
A group of girls send gifts and letters to one whom they think to be a young woman like them. "Christie" is really a poor young ba…

The Dragon and the Raven

by G. A. Henty Read by Mike Harris 4.7
During the reign of King Alfred, Danish forces have invaded the English countryside. Although the English try to repulse these attacks, they…

The Vanishing Man

by R. Austin Freeman Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.6
A young doctor, former student of the legal and medical expert Dr. John Thorndyke, finds himself almost accidentally drawn into a case in wh…

The Mayor's Wife

by Anna Katharine Green Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Miss Saunders is out for an adventure. One, which is full of secrets, hints, and half-lies. One, which will require all of her wits. She is …

Isobel

by James Oliver Curwood Read by Roger Melin 4.7
Action, intrigue, and a touch of romance in the farthest reaches of northern Canada. Sergeant Billy MacVeigh of the Canadian Northwest Mount…

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