Historical Fiction

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Read by Expatriate 4.6
Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the mo…

His Grace of Osmonde

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by Linda Andrus 4.4
His Grace of Osmonde offers a captivating glimpse into the life of a nobleman whose story unfolds in the shadows of his wife’s more celebrat…

The Shadow of Black Wings

by James Calbraith Read by James Calbraith 4.3
It is the Sixteenth Year of Queen Victoria. In the powerful empire of Dracaland, Bran, a young dragon rider, joins his father on a military …

Colonel Thorndyke's Secret

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Intrigue, murder, highwaymen... A British soldier serving in India has stolen a diamond bracelet from a Hindu idol. The bracelet comes into …

Persuasion

by Jane Austen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marri…

Trail's End

by George W. Ogden Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
When an agriculture professor wanders into a wicked Kansas cowtown in order to experiment raising wheat, both the professor and the town get…

Lord Tony's Wife

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
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…

The Covered Wagon

by Emerson Hough Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
"Look at 'em come, Jesse! More and more! Must be forty or fifty families." This is an old-fashioned adventure tale set on the Oreg…

Colonel Quaritch, V.C.

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Esther 4.7
This is not your typical H. Rider Haggard adventure book yet it is full of mystery and intrigue including a coerced marriage, bigotry, adult…

Crusade

by Mark Eller Read by Mark Eller 4.6
Three years after being named the Chin emperor Aaron Turner is busy building a new capital city and hiring archeologists, two endeavors he c…

A Horse's Tale

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.7
A Horse's Tale is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), written partially in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buffalo Bill's favorite hors…

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 4.5
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…

Fabiola

by Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Wiseman Read by Maria Therese 4.9
This historical novel is set in Rome in the early 4th century AD, during the time of the cruel persecution of Christians under the Emperor D…

The Sword of Antietam

by Joseph A. Altsheler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Sword of Antietam immerses listeners in the tumultuous landscape of the American Civil War, following the journey of young Northern hero…

The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow

by Allen French Read by Erin Schellhase 4.4
Rolf, a youth in early Christian Iceland, loses first his father, then his property, and finally his freedom to the schemes of a greedy neig…

Gods of the North

by Robert E. Howard Read by Phil Chenevert 4.4
"The Frost-Giant's Daughter" is, arguably the earliest chronological story by Robert E. Howard in terms of Conan's life. The brief…

Otto of the Silver Hand

by Howard Pyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
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 …

Marguerite de Valois

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.4
A historical fiction novel set in Paris (1572) during Charles IX's reign and the French Wars of Religion. Marguerite de Valois, daughter of …

Lady Barbarina

by Henry James Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.4
Rich and beautiful American girls heading to England to find themselves noble titles through marriage, and using their New World wealth to p…

I Will Repay

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by Annie Kirkpatrick 4.1
I Will Repay is the thrilling sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, continuing the adventures of the enigmatic hero, Sir Percy Blakeney. Set agai…

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