Historical Fiction

Last Days of Pompeii

by Edward Bulwer-Lytton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culmi…

Conjuror's House

by Stewart Edward White Read by Roger Melin 4
In the northern outreaches of the Canadian wilderness, it was understood that the Hudson Bay Company governed all trading, and one factor na…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
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 Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Ru…

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…

An Outcast Of The Islands

by Joseph Conrad Read by Tom Weiss 3.9
An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the…

Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table

by Andrew Lang Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
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…

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

The Staircase at the Heart's Delight

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Crln Yldz Ksr 3.9
Detective Ebenezer Gryce tells the story of the case with which he begun his career in 1840. Several wealthy men were drowned and washed ash…

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…

The Island of Sheep

by John Buchan 4.1
This is the last of Buchan’s ‘Richard Hannay’ novels. It’s cast of Characters, in addition to Hannay himself, includes from earlier novels, …

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

by Giacomo Casanova Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Giacomo Casanova (April 2, 1725 in Venice – June 4, 1798, in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, wr…

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 …

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Jane Eyre is a profound exploration of a young woman's journey toward self-discovery and independence. Set in 19th-century England, the nove…

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 Mabinogion

by William James McGlothlin Read by Martin Geeson 3.6
Sample a moment of magic realism from the Red Book of Hergest:On one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other a flo…

Rob Roy

by Sir Walter Scott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
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…

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…

The Ballad of Iron Percy

by Edward Clark Read by Edward Clark 4.5
It has been twenty years since the island nation of Great Hale conquered the New World and became an empire. Lord Percival Wilmore, the Hero…

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
When a rough old seaman calling himself "the Captain" appears at the inn owned by Jim Hawkins' father, young Jim little dreams wha…

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