Historical Fiction
The Magnificent Adventure (Version 2)
Read by Claude Stewart
Emerson Hough
In The Magnificent Adventure-Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman, by Emerson Hou…
The Gods and Mr Perrin
Read by Simon Evers
Hugh Walpole
The book is probably better known under the title ‘Mr Perrin and Mr Traill’, later made into a well-known film in 1948. Perrin and Traill ar…
The Golden Canyon
Read by Laurie Banza
G. A. Henty
In August, 1856, times were hard in San Diego. Dick, who worked on the ship, "Northampton", was attacked by a ruthless gang - the …
The Gambler (version 2)
Read by Simon Evers
Katherine Cecil Thurston
The book follows the life of Clodagh Asshlin, an Irish girl brought up with her younger sister by her spendthrift father in the wilds of the…
The Chicago Connection
Read by John R. Swift
John R. Swift
A teenager in Prohibition Chicago, haunted by disasters, breaks all his childhood vows of clean living and becomes a minor hoodlum. When he …
Marius the Epicurean, Volume 2
Read by DrPGould
Walter Pater
The conclusion of Pater's historico-philosophical novel about a young Roman nobleman's search for purpose and meaning. Set in the time of Ca…
The Gods are Athirst
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Anatole France
The Gods Are Athirst (French: Les dieux ont soif, also translated as The Gods Are Thirsty or The Gods Will Have Blood) is a 1912 novel by An…
De Ellendigen - Deel 1 - Fantine
Read by Marcel Coenders
Victor Hugo
De Ellendigen is een vertaling van Les Miserables, een sociale roman, met een sterke moraal. Hugo neemt het in zijn werk op voor de paria’s …
The Conquest
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Oscar Micheaux
"This is the true story of a negro who was discontented and the circumstances that were the outcome of that discontent." While co…
Marry Me! Inc.
Read by RMdeChazal
RMdeChazal
Marry Me! Inc. is the story of women and men who in 1898 were, in various ways – romantically, entrepreneurially, innocently, nefariously – …
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Read by Deon Gines
Sir Walter Scott
An historical novel set in Scotland in 1736, involving a riot and surrounding drama. - Summary by Deon Gines
The Stone Chest
Read by Laurie Banza
G. A. Henty
When the ship, Bluebell, went down, Captain Cromwell and Ruel Gross escaped on a raft, and after several days of suffering, finall…
Os Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca
Read by L.S.B.Seabra
Júlio Dinis
A obra conta a história dos fidalgos Negrões de Vilar dos Corvos, uma família abalada por várias tragédia…
The Spell of the Yukon
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Robert W. Service
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Spell of the Yukon by Robert W. Service. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Dece…
The Gray Mills of Farley
Read by Bellona Times
Sarah Orne Jewett
As contemporary today as it was over a century ago, this relatively unsentimental tale of labor relations still packs a punch. (Summary by B…
Post Haste
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R. M. Ballantyne
In this book, Ballantyne weaves the story of Phillip Mayland and his friend, George Aspel with an interesting portrayal of the British Post …
The Spanish Brothers
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Deborah Alcock
The daughter of a minister, Deborah Alcock wrote novels on a Christian theme. The Spanish Brothers is set in the sixteenth century and deals…
Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 4: Taking the Bastile
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
This 4th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins several years after the close of "The Queen’s Necklace.” It describes the event…
A Farewell to Arms (Version 2)
Read by Mark Nelson
Ernest Hemingway
Frederic Henry is an American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army during World War I, who after being severely wounded and ho…