Historical Fiction

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 …

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.7
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court transports readers from 19th-century America to the legendary realm of Camelot, where the clash …

The Story of a Whim

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by LikeManyWaters 4.6
A group of girls send gifts and letters to one whom they think to be a young woman like them. "Christie" is really a poor young ba…

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…

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfol…

The Shrieking Pit

by Arthur J. Rees Read by Kevin Green 4.6
The Shrieking Pit is one of Arthur Rees's earlier works, and is a good old fashioned murder mystery story. Grant Colwyn, a private detective…

An Unwilling Guest

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by LikeManyWaters 4.6
A young society woman travels to the country to visit her aunt, only to end up as the unwilling guest of a neighboring family. The daughter …

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens Read by Mil Nicholson 4.9
"Please sir, I want some more," the famous line spoken by Oliver Twist at age nine, becomes the tipping point of a huge change in …

The Custom of the Country

by Edith Wharton Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.6
Edith Wharton's 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional M…

The Cat of Bubastes

by G. A. Henty Read by David Leeson 4.7
G.A. Henty’s “tale of ancient Egypt” tells the story of Amuba, prince of the Rebu, who is taken captive when his people are conquered by the…

The Dead Letter

by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.6
Published in 1866, "The Dead Letter: An American Romance" written by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor under the pseudonym, Seeley Rege…

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…

The Rainbow Trail

by Zane Grey Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.6
The Rainbow Trail is a sequel to The Riders of the Purple Sage. Both novels are notable for their protagonists' mild opposition to Mormon po…

Kitty Alone

by Sabine Baring-Gould Read by MaryAnn 4.6
Kate Quarm is a bright and sensitive girl. She lives with her aunt and uncle at Coombe Cellers, a farmhouse, eating house and store occupyi…

Sir Gibbie

by George MacDonald Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
These are the adventures of Sir Gibbie through the Scotland moors. Not being able to read or speak, Gibbie survives on the streets without a…

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray Read by Helen Taylor 4.8
One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mo…

The Bishop's Secret

by Fergus Hume Read by David Wales 4.5
Bishop Pendle is the Church of England bishop in a small fictitious English cathedral town. Several years into his work, he receives a visit…

The Clue

by Carolyn Wells Read by Roger Melin 4.4
Once Carolyn Wells began, or re-invented her writing career, 'The Clue' was her initial book which strayed from children's writings into mys…

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…

Anthony Trent, Master Criminal

by Wyndham Martyn Read by Anna Simon 4.8
In 1918, Anthony Trent, a well-educated young man in his late twenties, lives an unsatisfactory life in a New York boarding house. He writes…

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