Historical Fiction

The Log of a Cowboy

by Andy Adams Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.7
The Log of a Cowboy is an account of a five-month drive of 3,000 cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana in 1882 along the Great Western …

Wulf the Saxon

by G. A. Henty Read by Peter John Keeble 4.8
Wulf the Saxon is a classic George Henty tale of nobility, loyalty and courage set in 11th century Britain. It relates the adventures of Wul…

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.9
Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte." De Conte …

The Holladay Case

by Burton Egbert Stevenson Read by Cate Barratt 4.5
Stevenson's introduction of the protagonist Lester (law clerk with New York firm Graham & Royce) finds him occupying a front row seat in…

Mary Barton

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by Tony Foster 4.8
"Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life" was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuou…

Dangerous Days

by Mary Roberts Rinehart Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.9
Dangerous Days opens in a still neutral America, though within a year the country will have joined the European alliance against the Central…

Cross Currents

by Eleanor H. Porter Read by Chiquito Crasto 4.8
Cross Currents: The Story of Margaret, to give it its full title, is delightful story about a little girl’s resilience and a mother’s unwave…

Anne of the Island

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
In Anne of the Island, the third installment of Lucy Maud Montgomery's beloved series, Anne Shirley embarks on a new chapter of her life as …

He Fell in Love with His Wife

by Edward P. Roe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
James desperately needs someone to help him keep his farm going, but has failure after colossal failure finding a good housekeeper. Alida ma…

Lost Man's Lane

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Mary Bard 4.6
After several people apparently vanish into thin air while walking along the same country road, New York detective Mr Gryce calls on the ski…

The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation

by J. S. Fletcher Read by MaryAnn 4.6
Marshall Allerdyke is driving through the night from London to Hull in response to an urgent telegram from his cousin. As he nears Hull, a …

Ravensdene Court

by J. S. Fletcher Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.5
Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court…

The Borough Treasurer

by J. S. Fletcher Read by MaryAnn 4.6
Messrs. Mallalieu and Cotherstone were outsiders who had built a prosperous business in Highmarket and even been elected as Mayor and Treasu…

That Affair at Portstead Manor

by Gladys Edson Locke Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.5
An English country home during a house party becomes the scene of a double mystery. One of the three detectives employed on the case is a w…

Ashton-Kirk, Investigator

by John Thomas Mcintyre Read by Pete Milan 4.5
Ashton-Kirk, who has solved so many mysteries, is himself something of a problem even to those who know him best. Although young, wealthy, a…

Miranda

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by TriciaG 4.5
The third book in the Marcia Schuyler/Miranda trilogy, this story focuses on the irrepressible Miranda Griscom. She has repeatedly rejected …

The Mark of Zorro

by Johnston Mcculley Read by Mark F. Smith 4.9
In Spanish California, a troubling pattern had developed. The natives were reduced to peasants, the Franciscan friars that ministered to the…

The Talleyrand Maxim

by J. S. Fletcher Read by Kevin Green 4.7
John Mallathorpe, a wealthy Yorkshire industrialist and land owner dies in an accident, apparently without making a will. His estate goes t…

The Big Blue Soldier

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by LikeManyWaters 4.5
Back from the Great War, a penniless and disillusioned young soldier finds himself in the home of Miss Marilla Chadwick, a sweet old lady wh…

The Little Nugget

by P. G. Wodehouse Read by Mark Nelson 4.7
Mrs Nesta Ford, in her London hotel room, reveals to her new friend Lord Mountry that she hopes to take her son Ogden on a yachting trip pro…

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