Historical Fiction
- Classic Western Adventures
- Epic Tales of War and Honor
- Historical True Crime Chronicles
- Journeys Through Time and Place
- Romantic Journeys Through History
- Voices of the Past
- Gothic Tales of History
- Fictional Lives Through History
The Elder Edda
The Elder or Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems dating from the thirteenth century CE. Though no two translators or editors seem…
Lord Tony's Wife
Another adventure of the Scarlet pimpernel! As the title suggests, it follows the story of Lord Tony and his wife, Yvonne. It is full of sus…
Das Mädchen vom Moorhof
Dies ist eine der schönsten Erzählungen der schwedischen Dichterin und Nobelpreisträgerin. Mit Demut und opferbereiter Liebe …
The Great Gatsby
Set in 1925, this is a novel of the Jazz Age; of ambition, of the careless rich, of wild parties and flappers and bootleg booze; and the eff…
Colonel Quaritch, V.C.
This is not your typical H. Rider Haggard adventure book yet it is full of mystery and intrigue including a coerced marriage, bigotry, adult…
La Señal de los Cuatro
La petición de una mujer a Sherlock Holmes para acompañarla a visitar a un hombre, y la muerte del hermano del mismo, lo lleva…
Persuasion
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marri…
Gods of the North
"The Frost-Giant's Daughter" is, arguably the earliest chronological story by Robert E. Howard in terms of Conan's life. The brief…
Marguerite de Valois
A historical fiction novel set in Paris (1572) during Charles IX's reign and the French Wars of Religion. Marguerite de Valois, daughter of …
The Song of Roland
The Song of Roland is an epic poem, originally sung in Old French. It tells the story of the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778. This is an Eng…
Waverley
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or…
The Great White Queen
How to describe this book? In a word – savage. For those regular LibriVox Le Queux mystery listeners, this book is a step in a different dir…
Historias de Detectives
La ficción detectivesca es un subgénero de la novela negra, y paradójicamente también su antecesor. Básic…
Odysseus
Odysseus, König von Ithaka, ist sicher einer der bekanntesten Helden der griechischen Mythologie. Nach der Eroberung Trojas begibt er s…
Völsungasaga
The 13th century Icelandic Völsungasaga is usually read by people studying the Poetic Edda or Wagner's Ring - which obscures the fact i…
Das Fräulein von Scuderi
Eine Erzählung aus dem Zeitalter Ludwig des Vierzehnten.Eine Mordbande geht um in Paris. Unbekannte Täter lauern reichen Herren au…
Otto of the Silver Hand
The story of little Otto, a gentle, peace-loving child born into the heart of turmoil and strife in the castle of a feuding robber baron in …
I Will Repay
I Will Repay is the thrilling sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, continuing the adventures of the enigmatic hero, Sir Percy Blakeney. Set agai…
The House in the Mist
It was a night to drive any man indoors. Not only was the darkness impenetrable, but the raw mist enveloping hill and valley made the open r…
Under Western Eyes
Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is vie…