Historical Fiction

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas Read by Mark F. Smith 4.8
D’Artagnan, son of a poor Gascon aristocrat, travels to Paris to seek his fortune. His family connections enable him to obtain a position in…

Rilla of Ingleside

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Anne of Green Gables is all grown up and married, and this is the story of her daughter “Rilla”, named for the indomitable Marilla Cuthbert …

What's Mine's Mine

by George MacDonald Read by Hannah Mary 4.8
Set in the invigorating wilds of Scotland, clans are crumbling and emigrating as their homeland is bought out from under them. The character…

The Hand of Ethelberta

by Thomas Hardy Read by Simon Evers 4.5
Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but became a governess and consequently, at the age of 18, married well. However, her husband …

Uncle Bernac

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Cate Barratt 4.5
Looking for a replacement to Sherlock Holmes after the author had killed him off in 1894, Doyle wrote this murder mystery in the dying years…

The Rain-Girl

by Herbert George Jenkins Read by Anna Simon 4.5
Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he…

The Million-Dollar Suitcase

by Alice Macgowan Read by Mark Nelson 4.5
Private detective Jerry Boyne is hot on the heels of a bank teller who has just embezzled nearly a million dollars in a suitcase. Cornered i…

The Man Who Fell Through the Earth

by Carolyn Wells Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
A lawyer is leaving his office on the top floor of an office building. He sees the shadows of two men fighting through the clouded glass of …

Saint George for England

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
A tale written for children in 1885.It tells of a child of noble birth whose parents have fallen foul of the current royalty. He is placed i…

The Wheat Princess

by Jean Webster Read by Celine Major 4.7
Marcia Copley, an American Heiress, comes to Rome. Typically for the period, she may want to attract an aristocrat. He brings the title, she…

The Circular Study

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Jacquerie 4.4
In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He…

The Virginian

by Owen Wister Read by MichelleHarris 4.5
Ostensibly a love story, the novel really revolves around a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War in 1890's Wyoming ... The …

A Study In Scarlet

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by David Clarke 4.8
A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detectiv…

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 …

Household Puzzles

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.7
Household Puzzles peeks into the life of the Randolph family, four daughters and one son. They are financially strapped but must follow soci…

The Benefactress

by Elizabeth Von Arnim Read by Helen Taylor 4.4
Anna Estcourt, twenty-five and beautiful, is the penniless ward of her distant brother and his exasperating wife. Turning down all offers of…

Diary of a U-boat Commander

by Stephen King-Hall Read by Mark F. Smith 4.6
Captain Karl von Schenk of the Kaiser's Navy is a stereotypical German nobleman - supremely self-confident, touchy about the divisions of cl…

The Golden Calf

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by Tara Dow 4.6
A late 19th Century sensation novel following the young life of Ida Palliser as she searches for fortune and love within England's Gentry Cl…

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by Mark Nelson 4.6
Crime and Punishment is the second of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from 5 years of exile in Siberia, and is …

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 …

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