Historical Fiction

The Postmaster's Daughter

by Louis Tracy Read by Sharon Kilmer 4.3
A charming mystery story set in the early 1900s which is as much about the townspeople, sleuths and othercolorful characters as it is about …

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by MaryAnn 4.8
I am inclined to rank Count Tolstoy not among the realists or naturalists, but rather as an impressionist. He is often careless about accur…

The Gold Bag

by Carolyn Wells Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.3
In a world of wealth and intrigue, a millionaire is found dead in his study, setting off a chain of events that unravels the lives of those …

The Albert Gate Mystery

by Louis Tracy Read by Crln Yldz Ksr 4.4
A new case for barrister and hobby detective Reginald Brett: The imperial diamonds were sent by the Sultan to London, to be cut in Albert Ga…

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women

by George MacDonald Read by Thomas A. Copeland 4.5
An author who means to end a story with some variation of “And they all lived happily ever after” had better deal before that point not just…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
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 Lancashire Witches

by William Harrison Ainsworth Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017) 4.8
The Lancashire Witches is a highly fictionalised account of the activities of the notorious witches Demdike, Chattox and Alice Nutter who, t…

The Beloved Vagabond

by William John Locke Read by Simon Evers 4.8
The vagabond, Paragot, a truly eccentric bohemian and a wandering scholar with a mysterious past, adopts a London street urchin (whom he cal…

Wyllard's Weird

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by Lynne T 4.6
A novel written in three volumes. In the golden age of steam, the London train wends its way across the Tamar into the strange and mystic la…

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe Read by John Greenman 4.8
Among the most “banned” books in the United States, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beeche…

The Cross Brand

by Max Brand Read by David Wales 4.5
Jack Bristol shot the sheriff and stole his horse. He rode off, not into the sunset, but into the mountains. The mountain man held him cap…

Miss Maitland, Private Secretary

by Geraldine Bonner Read by Holly Jenson 4.4
Semi-retired sleuth Molly Morgenthau Babbitts goes undercover as a governess to investigate a robbery at the aristocratic Janney mansion on …

At Agincourt

by G. A. Henty Read by Mike Harris 4.7
The story begins in a grim feudal castle in Normandie. The times were troublous, and soon the king compelled Lady Margaret de Villeroy, with…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
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…

Gold

by Stewart Edward White Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.7
This is a well written story of the California gold rush of 1849. Four friends decide they are going to go to California and get rich in the…

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Read by Expatriate 4.7
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…

A Girl of the Limberlost

by Gene Stratton-Porter Read by Patience Charles 4.6
Set in the Limberlost swamp of Indiana, A Girl of the Limberlost follows Elnora Comstock through struggles and triumphs as she seeks educati…

The Scouts of Stonewall

by Joseph A. Altsheler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
In this third book of Joseph Altsheler's Civil War series, Harry Kenton, a lieutenant in the Southern Army, is on scout patrol in the Shenan…

The Marriage of William Ashe

by Mary Augusta Ward Read by Simon Evers 4.6
William Ashe, an up and coming politician, impulsively marries Kitty, a young, flighty and strange girl who, far from supporting her husband…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
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,…

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