Historical Fiction

The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.2
It is the noon hour at a museum in New York City. The date: May 23, 1913. The weekday, attendance is light; the attendees are scattered betw…

A Mating in the Wilds

by Ottwell Binns Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.6
An adventure tale set in the North Woods. Stane, a former convict in England, has established a lonely life as a trapper in the north woods.…

Scaramouche

by Rafael Sabatini Read by Gord Mackenzie 4.8
Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a la…

The Opal Serpent

by Fergus Hume Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.5
An old pawnbroker is found strangled with his lips pinned together with an opal serpent broach. He has a beautiful daughter who is apparentl…

Shadows in the Moonlight

by Robert E. Howard Read by Phil Chenevert 4.5
For a genuine Conan tale, full of barbarian craftiness, magic, fierce fighting and his berserker strength, this meets every criteria and is …

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Follows the fortunes of the son of a noble Saxon family in Norman England as he woos his lady, disobeys his father, and is loved by another.…

The Man in the Iron Mask

by Alexandre Dumas Read by Mark F. Smith 4.6
In this, the last of the Three Musketeers novels, Dumas builds on the true story of a mysterious prisoner held incognito in the French penal…

A Little Country Girl

by Susan Coolidge Read by Lynne T 4.6
Candace makes the first long trip of her young life alone. Everything is new, from the ocean views, to the fashionable people she encounters…

Deep Lake Mystery

by Carolyn Wells Read by Roger Melin 4.3
Imagine, if you will, a murder committed in a sealed room. A room which has been sealed from the inside, that is, with no possible means of …

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Read by Expatriate 4.8
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…

Heart of the Ronin

by Travis Heermann Read by Travis Heermann 4.6
Thirteenth-century Japan is a dangerous place, even in a time of peace. Capricious gods, shape-changing animals, and bloodthirsty demons ar…

The Young Trailers

by Joseph A. Altsheler Read by A. E. Maroney 4.6
This is the story of Henry Ware, a young boy living in the wilds of the Kentucky frontier of the 1700's. The story follows Henry as he helps…

The Prairie

by James Fenimore Cooper Read by William Peck 4.6
The story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen and Abiram slowly making their way across the virgin prairies of the Midwest looking for a h…

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by Adrian Wilson 4.7
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel d…

Cranford

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by NoelBadrian 4.7
Cranford is set in a small market town populated largely by a number of respectable ladies. It tells of their secrets and foibles, their gos…

Adventures of Bindle

by Herbert George Jenkins Read by Don W. Jenkins 4.8
Adventures of Bindle introduces readers to the unforgettable Mr. Joseph Bindle, a quintessential Cockney character whose humorous escapades …

The Warden

by Anthony Trollope Read by Nick Whitley 4.7
The Warden is the first novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", making fun of the Church of E…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
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, firs…

Doctor Izard

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Lee Smalley 4.4
The opening scene takes place in a hospital ward where two patients lie, apparently dying, when a man enters and offers a proposition to one…

The People of the Mist

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.5
Penniless Leonard Outram attempts to redress the undeserved loss of his family estates and fiancee by seeking his fortune in Africa. In the …

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