Historical Fiction
Notre-Dame de Paris
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Victor Hugo
Dès 1828 Hugo avait conçu Note Dame de Paris et se rend plusieurs fois à la cathédrale. Il ressuscite le Paris d…
The Doctor's Wife
Read by Kirsten Wever
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
This is one of the Victorian “Sensationist” Mary Elizabeth Braddon's many novels (best known among them: “Lady Audley’s Secret”). It is extr…
Anna Karenina
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Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 7, Le…
Les Précieuses ridicules
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Molière
Madelon et Cathos, deux jeunes provinciales, arrivent à Paris en quête d'amour et de jeux d'esprit. Gorgibus, père de Ma…
Sir Nigel
Read by Clive Catterall
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
By 1348 the House of Loring has fallen on hard times. Together, the Black Death and the greedy monks of Waverley have bled away all of the L…
The Outlaw of Torn
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
The story is set in 13th century England and concerns the fictitious outlaw Norman of Torn, who purportedly harried the country during the p…
Anna Karenina
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Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 8, Vr…
War and Peace
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Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…
The Blockade Runners
Read by Mark F. Smith
Jules Verne
Writing at the end of the American Civil War, Verne weaves this story of a Scottish merchant who, in desperation at the interruption of the …
Les Misérables
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Victor Hugo
C'est un roman historique, social et philosophique dans lequel on retrouve les idéaux du romantisme et ceux de Victor Hugo concernant…
The Great Shadow
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Set in an English-Scottish border village during the waning days of the Napoleonic era, this adventure story introduces us to Jock Calder, w…
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte." De Conte …
Wulf the Saxon
Read by Peter John Keeble
G. A. Henty
Wulf the Saxon is a classic George Henty tale of nobility, loyalty and courage set in 11th century Britain. It relates the adventures of Wul…
The Cat of Bubastes
Read by David Leeson
G. A. Henty
G.A. Henty’s “tale of ancient Egypt” tells the story of Amuba, prince of the Rebu, who is taken captive when his people are conquered by the…
The Possessed
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Although titled The Possessed in the initial English translation, Dostoyevsky scholars and later translations favour the titles The Devils o…
The Black Arrow
Read by Mark F. Smith
Robert Louis Stevenson
In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. …
The Spirit of the Border
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
Zane Grey
This is an early novel by the phenomenally successful author of frontier, western and sports stories. It deals with historical characters an…
Il Ritratto del Diavolo
Read by Riccardo Fasol
Anton Giulio Barrili
Barrili, in questo romanzo pubblicato nel 1905, prendendo spunto da un episodio narrato da Giorgio Vasari, ci narra la vicenda del pittore S…
The Log of a Cowboy
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Andy Adams
The Log of a Cowboy is an account of a five-month drive of 3,000 cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana in 1882 along the Great Western …
The Dragon and the Raven
Read by Mike Harris
G. A. Henty
During the reign of King Alfred, Danish forces have invaded the English countryside. Although the English try to repulse these attacks, they…