Historical Fiction

The Postmaster's Daughter

by Louis Tracy Read by Sharon Kilmer 4.3
A charming mystery story set in the early 1900s which is as much about the townspeople, sleuths and othercolorful characters as it is about …

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…

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…

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…

The Man in the Iron Mask

by Alexandre Dumas Read by Mark F. Smith 4.6
In this, the last of the Three Musketeers novels, Dumas builds on the true story of a mysterious prisoner held incognito in the French penal…

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas Read by Mark F. Smith 4.8
D’Artagnan, son of a poor Gascon aristocrat, travels to Paris to seek his fortune. His family connections enable him to obtain a position in…

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 Prairie

by James Fenimore Cooper Read by William Peck 4.6
The story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen and Abiram slowly making their way across the virgin prairies of the Midwest looking for a h…

The Lady of the Basement Flat

by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey Read by Judi Mason 4.8
A naive young girl strikes out on her own and ends up leading a double life in this engaging tale of love lost and found. Summary by Judi M…

Miss Maitland, Private Secretary

by Geraldine Bonner Read by Holly Jenson 4.4
Semi-retired sleuth Molly Morgenthau Babbitts goes undercover as a governess to investigate a robbery at the aristocratic Janney mansion on …

The Spirit of the Border

by Zane Grey Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) 4.6
This is an early novel by the phenomenally successful author of frontier, western and sports stories. It deals with historical characters an…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by MaryAnn 4.8
I am inclined to rank Count Tolstoy not among the realists or naturalists, but rather as an impressionist. He is often careless about accur…

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass Read by Lee Smalley 4.8
Frederick Douglass published his highly acclaimed third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, in 1881 and revised it in 1892.…

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…

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…

Heart of the Ronin

by Travis Heermann Read by Travis Heermann 4.6
Thirteenth-century Japan is a dangerous place, even in a time of peace. Capricious gods, shape-changing animals, and bloodthirsty demons ar…

Shadows in the Moonlight

by Robert E. Howard Read by Phil Chenevert 4.5
For a genuine Conan tale, full of barbarian craftiness, magic, fierce fighting and his berserker strength, this meets every criteria and is …

Jo's Boys

by Louisa May Alcott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Jo’s little men and women are grown up and entering new stages of life. Along with discovering their individual niches, there are lots of le…

Household Puzzles

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.7
Household Puzzles peeks into the life of the Randolph family, four daughters and one son. They are financially strapped but must follow soci…

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 …

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