Historical Fiction

In Sight of the Sun

by Benjamin Dancer Read by Benjamin Dancer 3.5
The first book in The Father Trilogy: In Sight of the Sun. The old man takes the boy on his first raid into Mexico. The success of the rai…

Longhead

by C. H. Robinson Read by Nick Bulka 3.5
A fictionalized version of the self-discovery of primitive man, including: fire, cooking, defense and protection, architecture, community,…

The New Republic

by William Hurrell Mallock Read by Foon 5
A group of upper class men and women gather together in an English country house to discuss their ideas for a utopia (their "New Republ…

St. Elmo

by Augusta Jane Evans Read by Jim Locke 3.5
Written in prose and full of references to religion and mythology, this book tells the love story between St. Elmo and Edna. He is cynical a…

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a haunting portrait of ambition, love, and illusion in 1920s America. Narrated by Nick Carraway, …

Men of Iron

by Howard Pyle Read by Annie C. 4.5
Myles Falworth, son of a wrongfully outlawed lord, grows up amid the rough life of the dark ages. This book tells how he grows from an impul…

The Quaker City

by George Lippard Read by Mark Nelson 4.8
The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall was originally published in 1845, and is considered the first muckraking novel. It is a lurid and…

Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch

by Wilhelm Meinhold Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Wilhelm Meinhold, a Pomeranian priest working on the Island of Usedom, relates the story of Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch. The author ass…

In the Days of Queen Elizabeth

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Of all the sovereigns who have worn the crown of England, Queen Elizabeth is the most puzzling, the most fascinating, the most blindly prais…

Simon Called Peter

by Robert Keable Read by Simon Evers 4.5
Peter, a conventional Anglican priest, becomes a padre in northern France during the First World War. He is posted to a hospital on the coas…

The Broad Highway

by John Jeffery Farnol Read by Simon Evers 4.8
Peter Vibart is expected to inherit the fortune and title of his uncle but will only inherit if he marries Lady Sophia, the toast of the tow…

The Blind Brother

by Homer Greene Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
A story of repentance and forgiveness set in the times of the the coal mines. Follow a blind boy and his brother determined to get him cure…

The Red Flower

by Henry van Dyke Read by LibriVox Volunteers
LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Red Flower by Henry van Dyke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 11, 2012.Dr. H…

The Boy Knight

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Follow young Cuthbert on his adventures which lead him on a crusade to the Holy Land and back. - Summary by Sonia

Catherine

by William Makepeace Thackeray Read by Mark Leder 5
The wild and raw adventures of Catherine Hayes, who was burned for murder at Tyburn in 1742 - Summary by Mark Leder

The Story of Ab

by Stanley Waterloo Read by LibriVox Volunteers 1
The Story of Ab transports listeners to the distant past, exploring the life of Ab, a man navigating the challenges of the Stone Age. Set ag…

The Australaise

by C. J. Dennis Read by LibriVox Volunteers
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 recordings of The Austra--laise by C.J.Dennis. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 13, 2013.…

How a Fisherman Corked up His Foe in a Jar

by Guy Wetmore Carryl Read by LibriVox Volunteers
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of How a Fisherman Corked up His Foe in a Jar by Guy Wetmore Carryl. This was the Fortnightly Po…

Condemned as a Nihilist

by G. A. Henty Read by gracesilvey 4.4
Godfrey Bullen, the son of an English trader, is sent by his father to Russia to work in their firm in St. Petersburg. He unknowingly gets c…

The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers

by Robert Henry Newell Read by Margaret Espaillat 4.5
These are a collection of humorous "letters" written by a fictional character to a relation in the north during the Civil War. The…

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