Historical Fiction

The Fair Maid of Perth, Or, St. Valentine's Day

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Sir Walter Scott


Henry Gow has fallen in love with the Fair Maid of Perth, Catherine, the glovemaker's daughter. To make sure that he would be the first pers…

The Brethren (Version 2)

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H. Rider Haggard


A tale of love, romance and chivalry set amongst the backdrop of the climactic months before the opening of the Kings' Crusade. Two English…

Human Toll

Read by Kirsty Leishman


Barbara Baynton


Ursula (Ursie) Ewart, orphaned as a young child, is sent away from her home in the Australian bush. While Ursie was previously doted on by s…

Die Ahnen - Marcus König

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Gustav Freytag


Mit dem 4. Band der Ahnen-Reihe sind wir in der Zeit Martin Luthers angekommen. Die Erzählung Marcus König setzt 1519 in Thorn ein…

Captain John Crane, 1800 - 1815

Read by Tom Hirsch (1947-2022)


Thomas Wallace Knox


John and David grew up best of friends, outgoing and full of adventure. Living but miles from the sea west of Boston, right on the cusp of m…

St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3

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George MacDonald


’St. George and St. Michael’ is a little-known historical romance telling the story of a young couple who find themselves on opposing sides …

Wisdom's Daughter

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H. Rider Haggard


A strange manuscript in an unknown language is found among the effects of the late Professor Horace Holly. Its translator discovers that whi…

Antic Hay

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Aldous Huxley


The epigram to this work from Christoher Marlowe applies to the plot of this story: "My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns / Shall wi…

We Were There at the Normandy Invasion

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Clayton Knight


D-Day: 6 June 1944. The date of the invasion of the Normandy Coast of France by the Allies. This novel gives a different look at that invasi…

Dulcibel

Read by Elaine Webb


Henry Peterson


Dulcibel is a young, pretty and kind-hearted fictional character charged with Witchcraft during the infamous Salem Witch trials. During this…

The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 5: The Countess of Charny

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Alexandre Dumas


This 5th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins after the fall of the Bastille and the March on Versailles, which forced Louis XVI a…

Die Ahnen - Die Geschwister

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Gustav Freytag


Die fünfte Erzählung 'Die Geschwister' ist in sich zweigeteilt und behandelt die Geschichte zweier Militärpersonen aus der Fa…

The Courtship of Susan Bell

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Anthony Trollope


Susan lives with her overbearing sister in a boarding house in Saratoga Springs run by their timid mother. A knock on the door brings an une…

The Charterhouse of Parma

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Stendhal


In an astounding act of literary improvisation, Stendhal dictated this complex and innovative novel, combining political and psychological r…

Ticonderoga; A Story of Early Frontier Life in the Mohawk Valley

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George Payne Rainsford James


In the backwoods, lives a man and his two teenage children. He has sought the quiet life on the frontier, although he is a friend to all and…

The Young Visiters

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Daisy Ashford


The Young Visiters is a comic romance novella that parodies upper class society of late Victorian England. Social climber Alfred Salteena in…

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