Historical Fiction

Into the Woods

by David Wood Read by David Wood 4.4
Set against the backdrop of colonial America, Into the Woods is the story of pioneer and patriot Jonathan Wood. Straining against the bonds …

The Mucker

by Edgar Rice Burroughs Read by Joseph DeNoia 4.2
Grown and raised on the streets of Chicago; a ruthless, brawling beast of a man who detests all that “class” and “highbrow society” has to o…

The Evil Genius

by Wilkie Collins Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Evil Genius, one of Wilkie Collins' last works, is subtitled "A Domestic Scene". It is the intriguing tale of family Linley, i…

Purgatory

by Tim Dodge Read by Tim Dodge 4.7
Charles Cunningham, a wealthy real estate developer, dies unexpectedly and finds himself in Purgatory, the place between heaven and hell. Th…

True to the Old Flag

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
True to the Old Flag invites listeners into the tumultuous world of the American War of Independence, told from a unique perspective—the Bri…

Rilla of Ingleside

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth of the eight "…

The Tavern Knight

by Rafael Sabatini Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
In the tumultuous era of the English Civil War, Sir Crispin Galliard, known as The Tavern Knight, emerges as an unlikely hero. With a sharp …

In Freedom's Cause

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
In Freedom's Cause transports listeners to the tumultuous era of the Scottish Wars of Independence, where the legendary figures of Robert Br…

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607. It was first printed…

Louise de la Valliere

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Set against the backdrop of 17th-century France, Louise de la Vallière continues the saga of the legendary Musketeers, weaving a tale…

With Frederick The Great

by G. A. Henty Read by Gary Olman 4.1
Among the great wars of history there are few, if any, instances of so long and successfully sustained a struggle, against enormous odds, as…

Before Adam

by Jack London Read by Tom Weiss 4.3
Before Adam is a mixture of sound science and sci-fi speculation. It is based around Darwin's theory of evolution and the idea of racial mem…

Words At War

by Hilary Aidan Saint George Saunders, Clark Lee, Boris Voyetekhov, Ralph Parker, C.S. Forester, Robert St. John, Gwen Dew, Charles Spalding, Otis Carney, George Beurling, Leslie Roberts, Fred Herman, Margaret Buell Wilder, Jean Helion, Agnes Smedley, Mark Murphy, Etta Shiber, Corey Ford, Frederick B. Watt, Ernie Pyle, John Mason Brown, Michael Padev, Herbert L. Matthews, Harry Edward Maule, Carlos Peña Romulo, Frank Laskier, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Otto Zoff, Tai-yi Lin, Frederick J. Bell, Robert Goffin, Rackham Holt, Taro Yashima, Selden Menefee, Vicki Baum, George W. Gray, Konrad Heiden, John Hersey, Anna Louise Strong, Vercors, Lawrance Roger Thompson, H. E. Bates, George Creel, Donald Hough, Bernt Balchen, James Norman Hall, Robert Parker, Curt Riess, Lion Feuchtwanger, Willard Waller, Captain Don S. Gentile, Agnes Meyer, Robert Nathan, Jack Belden, Tom Treanor, Kent Cooper, Barbara Klaw, Captain Alfred Friendly, Marie Syrkin, Albert Maltz, Kenneth M. Gould, Oscar Ray, Jan Karski, Louis Nizer, Walter Karig, Welbourn Kelley, Ellwood C. Nance, Wanda Wasilewska, William Bradford Huie, Elliott Arnold, Jim Phelan, William Beveridge, Glenway Wescott, Lionel S. B. Shapiro, Egon Hostovsky, Friedrich A. Hayek, Harry Lever, Joseph Young, George K. Pratt and Russell Davenport 4.7
The NBC program Words At War is a captivating old-time radio series that explores the impact of World War II through dramatizations based on…

Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady

by Samuel Richardson Read by Nicole Lee 4.4
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady is a profound exploration of virtue and the struggles of a young woman in 18th-century Engl…

Three Soldiers

by John Dos Passos Read by mb 4.3
Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First Worl…

Kenilworth

by Sir Walter Scott Read by skoval 4.5
An Elizabethan era historical novel by Scotland's master of fiction, Sir Walter Scott. With a cast of historical and created characters, inc…

The Saga of Erik the Red

by Arthur Middleton Reeves Read by Expatriate 4.3
The Saga of Erik the Red is one of the two important thirteenth-century accounts of the Norse explorations of Greenland and North America, a…

Murder at St. Dennis

by Margaret Ann Hubbard Read by Maria Therese 4.2
In the shadowy halls of St. Dennis Hospital, a cunning killer lurks, turning the once-peaceful institution into a scene of dread. As the bod…

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The story centers on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this un…

Dracula

by Bram Stoker Read by Peter John Keeble 4.7
Dracula as written by Bram Stoker in 1897 was not the first depiction of vampires and other such creatures, Gothic horror stories had been a…

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