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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...
Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln - Charles Watts WHISTLER
Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln - Charles Watts WHISTLER
- Author: Charles Watts WHISTLER
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
Troy, Athens, Rome... each has its founding legend. So too does the Lincolnshire town of Grimsby, once the largest fishing port in the world. Havelok the Dane probably derives from a folk-tale, orally passed down before assuming written form - first...
War and Peace Vol. 2 (Dole Translation) - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace Vol. 2 (Dole Translation) - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
I am inclined to rank Count Tolstoy not among the realists or naturalists, but rather as an impressionist. He is often careless about accuracy. Numberless incongruities can be pointed out. He is as willing to adopt an anachronism as a medieval...
De L'Orme - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
De L'Orme - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Author: George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Genre: Historical Fiction
G.P.R. James was a historian and novelist, who took well-documented historical events and characters and wove stories around minor or imaginary actors in the events. In this work, set in seventeenth century France, we follow the adventures of young...
Magna Carta - Amice MACDONELL
Magna Carta - Amice MACDONELL
- Author: Amice MACDONELL
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Plays
A one-act play which describes the setting and writing of the Magna Carta, including the famous line "now is justice bought and sold" in the Prologue. - Summary by Beth Thomas Narrator: Denny Sayers King John: Rob Board Stephen Langton, Archbishop...
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling - Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire Allworthy. Tom grows into a...
Come Rack! Come Rope! - Robert Hugh Benson
Come Rack! Come Rope! - Robert Hugh Benson
- Author: Robert Hugh Benson
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Religious Fiction
Come Rack! Come Rope! is a historical novel by the English priest and writer Robert Hugh Benson, a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism. Set in Derbyshire at the time of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics, when being or harboring a priest...
The Landleaguers - Anthony Trollope
The Landleaguers - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Near Galway, young Florian Jones has just converted to Catholicism when he witnesses the deliberate destruction of his English father’s land by the Catholic Landleaguers. The Irish Land War has commenced, with the boycotting of wealthy landowners...
Leatherface: A Tale of Old Flanders - Baroness Orczy
Leatherface: A Tale of Old Flanders - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A romantic, political adventure story set in the late 1500's, during the Spanish rule over the Netherlands, in the city of Ghent. Leatherface is an Orangist and emerges to lead the Ghent citizens to rebel and win back their freedom....
Doctor Syn - Russell THORNDIKE
Doctor Syn - Russell THORNDIKE
- Author: Russell THORNDIKE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh is the first in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike and inspired a Disney movie called the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh starring Patrick Patrick McGoohan. In this story we are introduced to the...
Stories of the Scottish Border - William PLATT
Stories of the Scottish Border - William PLATT
- Author: William PLATT
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Poetry
Nothing seems to be known about Mr and Mrs William Platt, the writers of Stories of the Scottish Border. What they produced is an eccentric guidebook and history, seen partly through the ballads of the region. The book recounts the military...
No Surrender - Constance Elizabeth MAUD
No Surrender - Constance Elizabeth MAUD
- Author: Constance Elizabeth MAUD
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Written from the midst of the struggle for female suffrage, Constance Elizabeth Maud’s novel No Surrender (1911) is a Call to Arms. It is a dramatic narrative portraying key players and historical events in the battle for the Vote for Women in...
Ruth of Boston: A Story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony - James OTIS
Ruth of Boston: A Story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony - James OTIS
- Author: James OTIS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Historical Fiction
James Otis wrote a series of books depicting life in the new colonies, written from a child's point of view. Ruth of Boston is the story of 12 year old Ruth, coming from London to live in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It gives accounts of what a...
Darnley - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
Darnley - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Author: George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A stranger rides across the Kentish countryside when his attention is called to a cottage where violence is being done to an elderly couple. The knight, for such he appears to be, rushes to their aid. Soon after, the strange and prophetic Sir Cesar...
The Story of the Romans - H. A. GUERBER
The Story of the Romans - H. A. GUERBER
- Author: H. A. GUERBER
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Historical Fiction
A collection of short stories and histories of Rome, from its beginning to its end. (Ann Boulais)...
St. Bartholomew's Eve - G. A. Henty
St. Bartholomew's Eve - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Historical Fiction
Set in the days of the religious wars of Europe, St. Bartholomew's Eve is the tale of the Huguenot's desperate fight for freedom of worship in France. As the struggle intensifies the plot thickens, culminating in the dreadful Massacre of St....
Monte-Cristo's Daughter - Edmund Flagg
Monte-Cristo's Daughter - Edmund Flagg
- Author: Edmund Flagg
- Genre: Historical Fiction
"Monte-Cristo's Daughter," a wonderfully brilliant, original, exciting and absorbing novel, is the Sequel to "The Count of Monte-Cristo," Alexander Dumas' masterwork, and the continuation and conclusion of that great romance, "Edmond Dantès." It...
The Daughter of the Commandant - Alexander Pushkin
The Daughter of the Commandant - Alexander Pushkin
- Author: Alexander Pushkin
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
"The Daughter of the Commandant" (better known as "The Captain's Daughter") is a historical novel by the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin, and is considered to be his finest prose work. The novel is a romanticized account of Pugachev's Rebellion in...
The Witch of Salem - John R. MUSICK
The Witch of Salem - John R. MUSICK
- Author: John R. MUSICK
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A historical novel about the Salem Witch Trials. A fantastic illustrated historical novel by the prolific American author John R. Musick.From the author’s preface: The "Witch of Salem" is designed to cover twenty years in the history of the United...
The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter - Ambrose Bierce
The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter - Ambrose Bierce
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A tragic but very captivating tale of a monk in the 17th century....
Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
Rob Roy is a historical novel by Walter Scott. It is narrated by Frank Osbaldistone, the son of an English merchant who travels first to the North of England, and subsequently to the Scottish Highlands to collect a debt stolen from his father. On...
