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Harry Heathcote of Gangoil - Anthony Trollope


Harry Heathcote of Gangoil - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Family Life / Historical Fiction
Harry Heathcote is an English ‘squatter’ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sister Kate live with him. Giles Medlicott owns a sugar plantation and mill nearby. Two of Harry’s former...
Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup (Dramatic Reading) - John Kendrick Bangs


Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup (Dramatic Reading) - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family Life / Historical Fiction
Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous spin on encounters with several famous people of the time. "I set forth from my office in London upon my pilgrimage to the shrines of the world's illustrious. Readers...
Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Detective Fiction
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 of the 19th century. Set in Napoleon's era, it involves a Frenchman returning to his native land to join the...
War and Peace, Book 04: 1806 - Leo Tolstoy


War and Peace, Book 04: 1806 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the...
Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving - Washington Irving


Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction
Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with an old friend he is able to experience Christmas in a stately manor house. Through his eyes as a houseguest...
Ten Years Later - Alexandre Dumas


Ten Years Later - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues! The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is the last of the...
The Spanish Brothers - Deborah ALCOCK


The Spanish Brothers - Deborah ALCOCK
- Author: Deborah ALCOCK
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The daughter of a minister, Deborah Alcock wrote novels on a Christian theme. The Spanish Brothers is set in the sixteenth century and deals with Protestant martyrdom during the Spanish Inquisition. Follow the fortunes of brothers Juan and Carlos as...
Thorstein of the Mere: A Saga of the Northmen in Lakeland - William Gershom COLLINGWOOD


Thorstein of the Mere: A Saga of the Northmen in Lakeland - William Gershom COLLINGWOOD
- Author: William Gershom COLLINGWOOD
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
A fine adventure set in 10th-century England at a time when everyday life in north was made hazardous by wars and shifting alliances among Saxon, British and Norse rulers. Thorstein, like his father Swein before him, is a peaceful Norse settler but...
A Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy Of The Korosko - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


A Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy Of The Korosko - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
Also published under the title The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898). A group of European tourists are enjoying their trip to Egypt in the year 1895. They are sailing up the River Nile in a "a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed stern-wheeler", the Korosko....
Richard of Jamestown: A Story of the Virginia Colony - James OTIS


Richard of Jamestown: A Story of the Virginia Colony - James OTIS
- Author: James OTIS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Historical Fiction
Richard of Jamestown by James Otis was written for children with the purpose to show them the daily home life of the Virginia colonists. It is written from the viewpoint of a young boy named Richard Mutton. (summary by Laura Caldwell)...
The Blockade Runners - Jules Verne


The Blockade Runners - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Writing at the end of the American Civil War, Verne weaves this story of a Scottish merchant who, in desperation at the interruption of the flow of Southern cotton due to the Union blockade, determines to build his own fast ship and run guns to the...
Catherine De' Medici - Honoré de Balzac


Catherine De' Medici - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Early Modern
The Philosophical Studies from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine) are a series of works that are intended as a reflection on history in part through the use of fiction. 'Catherine de Medici' is one such 'study', and features, alongside detailed...
Anna Karenina (Dole translation) - Leo Tolstoy


Anna Karenina (Dole translation) - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
Two love stories are set against the backdrop of high society in Tsarist Russia. Anna awakes from a loveless marriage to find herself drawn irresistibly to the dashing cavalry officer, Count Vronsky. Levin struggles with self-esteem, and even flees...
A Tale of Two Cities (version 4) - Charles Dickens


A Tale of Two Cities (version 4) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A small group of people become embroiled in the tumultuous events of the French Revolution. - Summary by Brad Filippone...
Phineas Redux - Anthony Trollope


Phineas Redux - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Phineas Finn is the fourth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. At the end of Phineas Finn, the second novel in the series, Phineas had returned to Ireland and married his childhood sweetheart after having left the House of Commons. As...
In the Midst of Life; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians - Ambrose Bierce


In the Midst of Life; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians - Ambrose Bierce
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
These stories detail the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. This is the 1909 edition. The 1909 edition omits six stories from the original 1891 edition; these six stories are added to this LibriVox recording (from an...
The Point of Honor - Joseph Conrad


The Point of Honor - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following fifteen years, interwoven with the...
Tales from Jókai - Mór JÓKAI


Tales from Jókai - Mór JÓKAI
- Author: Mór JÓKAI
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
Móric Jókay de Ásva, known as Mór Jókai or Maurus Jokai, was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. He was a very prolific writer from an early age and wrote hundreds of novels, novellas, and short stories in his lifetime. The nine stories in this...
The Valley of Decision - Edith Wharton


The Valley of Decision - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Odo Valsecca, a promising nobleman, inherits a dukedom at a young age and, over the course of his young life, must quickly learn the politics of royalty as he deals with other nobles, the church, the free-thinking movement, and, of course, his...
The Side of the Angels - Basil KING


The Side of the Angels - Basil KING
- Author: Basil KING
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The book is set in New England in the early 20th century in an old established community where times are rapidly changing but nonetheless the rules of a hierarchical society still hold good. Thor, a rich doctor from an old family, in trying to help...