Historical Fiction
A Set of Six
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
Each of the stories in this collection is spun from a simple, if typically wry and bleak, idea. In "Gaspar Ruiz", a South American…
The Lie (version 2)
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Sir Walter Raleigh
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of "The Lie" by Sir Walter Raleigh. This was the fortnightly poem for the period begin…
Muslin
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George Moore and George Logan Moore
Muslin, better known as A Drama In Muslin, is a realistic novel by George Moore. It describes the lives of five Irish girls after their grad…
Colonel Greatheart
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H. C. Bailey
This is a story of the English Civil War where a witching woman conquerors hearts and marks.
Saint Joan: Preface
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George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th-century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her…
De L'Orme
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George Payne Rainsford James
G.P.R. James was a historian and novelist, who took well-documented historical events and characters and wove stories around minor or imagin…
Geschichte des Agathon, Teil 3
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Christoph Martin Wieland
Verbesserte und erweiterte Ausgabe von 1794.Wieland war – neben Lessing, Lichtenberg und Kant – der bedeutendste und reflexionsmächtigs…
Vóór Adam's tijd
Read by Edith van der Have-Raats
Jack London
"Vóór Adam's tijd" is het verhaal van een jongen die droomt dat hij het leven leidt van een vroege mensachtige, Aust…
The Chimney Corner
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Stowe wrote over 30 books. This one is a fascinating collection of her post Civil War musings on a variety of cultural topics, staged mostly…
Taras Bulba
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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Spannende Erzählung voller Tragik über das Leben der russisch-ukrainischen Kosaken im frühen 17. Jahrhundert.Indem wir die Sc…
The Deluge Volume 2
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a th…
Goena - goena
Read by Marcel Coenders
Paul Adriaan Daum
Een literaire thriller uit het Indië van de negentiende eeuw. Moord, doodslag en een aantrekkelijke jonge vrouw die weet wat ze wil. Wa…
Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand
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Henry Cadwallader Adams
A young man travels to South Africa to find his Mother and sister. He wants to be a clergyman and a farmer when he arrives there. This story…
Viviette
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William John Locke
Viviette is a headstrong young girl who is pursued by two brothers: Austin, a headstrong man of the world and a barrister in London, and Dic…
Geschichte des Agathon, Teil 2
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Christoph Martin Wieland
Verbesserte und erweiterte Ausgabe von 1794.Wieland war – neben Lessing, Lichtenberg und Kant – der bedeutendste und reflexionsmächtigs…
Uther and Igraine
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Warwick Deeping
This beautifully written book imagines the lives of Igraine and Uther Pendragon before the legend of Arthur began. (Summary by A. Gramour)