Historical Fiction
The Little Colonel
Read by Maria Therese
Annie Fellows Johnston
The scene of this story is laid in Kentucky. Its heroine is a small girl, who is known as the Little Colonel, on account of her fancied rese…
The World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia
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Eva March Tappan
This is the third volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…
Edward II
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Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan tragedy focuses on the downfall of King Edward II, whose love for his favorite courtier, Piers Gaveston, l…
The Virginians
Read by Nick Bulka
William Makepeace Thackeray
It tells the story of Henry Esmond's twin grandsons, George and Henry Warrington. Henry's romantic entanglements with an older woman lead up…
Callista
Read by Carol Pelster
John Henry Newman
Callista, A Tale of the Third Century, was written by John Henry Newman, who was a scholarly and personable Anglican theologian who became a…
Clayhanger (Version 2)
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
A coming-of-age story about Edwin Clayhanger, who leaves school, has his ambition to become an architect thwarted by his tyrannical father, …
The World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome
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Eva March Tappan
This is the fourth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March T…
Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt
Read by Sibella Denton
James Baikie
Written primarily for children, James Baikie's 'peep' at ancient Egypt is a really well done, historical account of the ways of that fascina…
Felix Holt, The Radical
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George Eliot
"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is …
Starlight Ranch And Other Stories Of Army Life On The Frontier
Read by David Wales
Charles King
Five stories of Army life in the mid to late 19th century. Charles King (1844 – 1933) was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer…
Fraternity
Read by Simon Evers
John Galsworthy
A satire of middle-class complacency and artistic aspiration. It is the story of a strange bohemian upper-class love triangle, and of a myst…
An Outback Marriage
Read by Arrowhead Aussie
Andrew Barton Paterson and Banjo Paterson
A ROLLICKING YARN FROM AN AUSTRALIAN LEGENDBanjo Paterson is our best known and most loved bush poet. Less well known, but no less captivati…
The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 1: The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years La…
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
Volume 3 of The d'Artagnan Romances is divided into three parts. The first begins in 1660, ten years after Volume 2, with d’Artagnan as Lieu…
Tom of the Raiders
Read by Brett W. Downey
Austin Bishop and William Henry Bishop
Young Adult historical fiction of a young man joining the Union Army and taking part in the Great Locomotive Chase. (Summary by Brett Downey…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and the Cenci (version 2)
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent …
The Lusiads
Read by Leni
Luís Vaz de Camões
The Lusiads (Os Lusíadas) is a Portuguese epic poem, written in the 16th century by Luis Vaz de Camões. The poem tells the tal…
Tempest and Sunshine
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Mary Jane Holmes
Tempest and Sunshine is the first book written by Mary Jane Holmes. Set in the pre-Civil War south, it follows the struggles and romances of…
Under the Witches' Moon
Read by Bill Boerst
Nathan Gallizier
The scene is Rome, 935 A.D. Thirty-year-old Tristan, dressed as a pilgrim, overhears a conversation between Basil, the Grand Chamberlain, an…
How To Tell A Story, and Other Essays (Version 2)
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
The complete collection of works using this title. Other versions, including the Project Gutenberg version, have been radically shortened. M…
The Lion's Skin
Read by Carol Pelster
Rafael Sabatini
Justin Caryll was an unwilling hero: an unwilling plotter of revenge, an unwilling spy and an unwilling pursuer of the woman he loves. Justi…