Historical Fiction

Vixen

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
This is an exquisite and heartbreaking love story. Violet Tempest and Roderick Vawdrey, otherwise known to each other as Vixen and Rorie, ar…

Night's Knights

by Emerian Rich Read by Emerian Rich 3.8
Severina is an exotic beauty from the jungles of Brazil whose family is brutally murdered by the same man she later calls lover. Markham is…

Father Goriot

by Honoré de Balzac Read by James E. Carson 4.2
One of Balzac's most popular works, set around 1815 during the re-ascendancy of the Bourbon kings following the defeat of Napoleon. Said to …

1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.2
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside invites listeners into a lively and irreverent dialogue set in the Elizabethan era. Mar…

Tales Of King Arthur And The Round Table

by Andrew Lang Read by David Wales 3.8
The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history o…

The Betrothed

by Alessandro Manzoni Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) presents a kaleidoscope of individual stories, which are all tied together by the story of Lucia and Renzo,…

Nibelungenlied

by Anonymous Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. The story tells of dragon-slayer Siegfri…

Agatha Webb

by Anna Katharine Green Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
A universally beloved woman has been murdered. But who would have the heart to kill Agatha Webb? Would her husband do it for money matters? …

The Stowmarket Mystery

by Louis Tracy Read by Crln Yldz Ksr 3.6
Another case for Reginald Brett, barrister and hobby detective: David Hume-Frazer is in some trouble. He was the prime suspect in the murder…

The Hill of Dreams

by Arthur Machen Read by Mark Nelson 3.5
The novel recounts the life of a young man, Lucian Taylor, focusing on his dreamy childhood in rural Wales, in a town based on Caerleon. The…

Ten Years Later

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
In Ten Years Later, the saga of the legendary Musketeers continues as Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan navigate the complexities of lo…

Rob Roy

by Sir Walter Scott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
Rob Roy is a historical novel by Walter Scott. It is narrated by Frank Osbaldistone, the son of an English merchant who travels first to the…

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens Read by Hamlet 4.8
A small group of people become embroiled in the tumultuous events of the French Revolution. - Summary by Brad Filippone

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen Read by Tony Addison 4.2
If it is a truth universally acknowledged that a good-looking girl cannot fail of attracting a clever young man does it follow that the reve…

North and South

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
North and South is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, …

Kissyman and The Gentleman

by Scott Sigler Read by Scott Sigler 4.4
New York City, 1946. No one knows his real name, but when the job is too dirty, too dangerous, you call Kissyman. Once he was an elite Nazi …

I Am Adam

by James Twerell Read by James Twerell 4.4
This is the book of generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him: male and female created he the…

DarkAge

by Kirk Warrington Read by Kirk Warrington 3.7
DarkAge is a mature, fantasy fiction, podcast novel where Sword and Sorcery meets Medieval Fantasy. A group of friends playing a fantasy r…

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
This story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns a Huron massacre (with passive French a…

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott Read by Abigail Rasmussen 4.6
This story follows the lives of four sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Set in the tumultuous days of the American Civil war, readers grow to lo…

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