Salammbo - audiobook
Gustave FLAUBERT (1821 - 1880), translated by UNKNOWN ( - )
After completing the famous Mme Bovary, Flaubert put all his efforts into researching the Punic Wars and completed the lesser known Salammb?. In this volume, Flaubert describes in detail the Mercenary Revolt and the fight of the Mercenaries against the all-powerful Carthage, the theft of the magical Zaimph and the love and hate between the Carthaginian princess Salammb? and the fiercest leader of the Mercenaries, Matho. Read more [...]
Category: Historical novel
The Daughter of the Sioux audiobook
by Charles King
Charles King (1844 -- 1933) was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He was the son of Civil War general Rufus King and great grandson of Rufus King, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated from West point in 1866 and served in the Army during the Indian Wars under George Crook. He was wounded in the arm forcing his retirement from the regular army. During this time he became acquainted with Buffalo Read more [...]
Country of the Pointed Firs audiobook
by Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett's finest work, described by Henry James as her "beautiful little quantum of achievement." Despite James's diminutives, the novel remains a classic. Because it is loosely structured, many critics view the book not as a novel, but a series of sketches; however, its structure is unified through both setting and theme. Jewett herself felt that her strengths as a writer Read more [...]
Adam Bede audiobook
George ELIOT (1819 - 1880)
Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. The novel has remained in print ever since, and is used in university studies of 19th century English literature. The story's plot follows four characters rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope—a rural, pastoral and Read more [...]
Ten Years Later audiobook
by Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
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 Musketeer novels. It is usually divided into four volumes and this second volume contains chapters 76-140. (Summary by Diana Majlinger)
The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later
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The Black Tulip audiobook
by Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
Unknown translator
The Black Tulip, written by Alexandre Dumas p?re and published in 1850, is a historical novel placed in the time of Tulipmania in the Netherlands. The novel begins with the 1672 politically motivated mob lynching of the de Witt brothers and then follows the story of Cornelius van Baerle, godson of Cornelius de Wit. Cornelius Van Baerle has joined the race to breed a truly black tulip -- and to win the prize of 100,000 Read more [...]
The White Company audiobook
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
Set during the Hundred Years' War with France, The White Company tells the story of a young Saxon man who is learning what it is to be a knight. Raised by Cistercian Monks and rejected by a violent elder brother, Alleyn Edricson takes service with one of the foremost knights in the country. When Alleyn falls in love with the knight's daughter, he must prove himself to be a courageous and honourable knight before he can win her Read more [...]
The Adventures of Gerard audiobook
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
These lesser known stories were penned by Conan Doyle during the period between killing off Sherlock Holmes in 1893 and reluctantly resurrecting him some ten years later. The swashbuckling, eponymous hero, Etienne Gerard, is one of Napoleon's gallant French Hussars, who considers himself the finest of them all. Through these "Boys Own Adventures", Conan Doyle pokes gentle fun at both the French and the English. This is the Read more [...]
A Journal of the Plague Year audiobook
by Daniel Defoe (1659/1661-1731)
April 16th 2013: missing sections of this book have now been recorded, and the full book has been recatalogued.
Daniel Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year' (1722) is a fictionalized account of the bubonic plague epidemic that struck London in 1665 which Defoe witnessed as a five-year old, the year before the Great Fire of London. This work is among the first English novels. Like 'Robinson Crusoe', 'Moll Flanders' and Read more [...]
The Prairie audiobook
by James Fenimore Cooper (1789 - 1851)
The story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen and Abiram slowly making their way across the virgin prairies of the Midwest looking for a homestead, just two years after the Louisiana Purchase, and during the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. They meet the trapper (Natty Bumppo), who has left his home in New York state to find a place where he cannot hear the sound of people cutting down the forests. In the years between his Read more [...]
The Pioneers audiobook
by James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is one of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. The Pioneers was first of these books to be published (1823), but the period of time covered by the book (principally 1793) makes it the fourth chronologically. (The others are The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, and The Prairie.)
The story takes Read more [...]
The Outlaw of Torn audiobook
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The story is set in 13th century England and concerns the fictitious outlaw Norman of Torn, who purportedly harried the country during the power struggle between King Henry III and Simon de Montfort. Norman is the supposed son of the Frenchman de Vac, once the king's fencing master, who has a grudge against his former employer and raises the boy to be a simple, brutal killing machine with a hatred of all things English. His intentions are partially Read more [...]
Last Days of Pompeii audiobook
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803--1873)
Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
The novel uses its characters to contrast the decadent culture of first-century Rome with both older cultures and coming trends. The protagonist, Glaucus, represents the Greeks who have Read more [...]
The Prisoner of Zenda audiobook
by Anthony Hope (1863-1933)
The Prisoner of Zenda tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania, a country not a thousand miles from Bavaria. There, by reason of his resemblance to the King of Ruritania he becomes involved in saving the King's Life and his Throne from the King's dastardly brother and his allies. Woods, moated castles, pomp, swordplay, gallantry, villainy and a beautiful princess. What story could ask for more? Read more [...]
The Man in the Iron Mask audiobook
by Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870). Translation unattributed.
In this, the last of the Three Musketeers novels, Dumas builds on the true story of a mysterious prisoner held incognito in the French penal system, forced to wear a mask when seen by any but his jailer or his valet. If you have skipped the novels between The Three Musketeers and this, a few notes will bring you into the story:
On one side -- Aramis, now a bishop and secretly the Captain-General of Read more [...]
The Deerslayer audiobook
by James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
The Deerslayer, or The First Warpath (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo. (Introduction by Wikipedia)
The Deerslayer
First edition title page
Author(s)
James Fenimore Cooper
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
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Ivanhoe audiobook
by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Follows the fortunes of the son of a noble Saxon family in Norman England as he woos his lady, disobeys his father, and is loved by another. Set in late 12C England and in Palestine with Richard C?ur-de-Lion at the Crusades, it's another ripping historical yarn by Scott (summary by annise)
Ivanhoe
Scenes from the Illustrated London News ofArthur Sullivan's operatic adaptation.
Author(s)
Sir Walter Scott
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United Read more [...]
Adam Bede audiobook
by George Eliot (1819-1880)
Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. The novel has remained in print ever since, and is used in university studies of 19th century English literature.
The story's plot follows four characters rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope—a rural, pastoral Read more [...]
The Three Musketeers audiobook
by Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870). Translated by W. Robson (1785-1863).
The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, p?re. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis — inseparable friends who live by the motto, "One for all, and all for one".
The Three Musketeers was Read more [...]
The Count of Monte Cristo audiobook
by Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
The sailor Edmond Dant?s is wrongly accused of treason and imprisoned in the Ch?teau d'If. After twenty years, he manages to escape, and by direction of one of another prisoner finds a treasure on the island of Monte Cristo. Edmund becomes the Count of Monte Cristo, and it's time for revenge on those that betrayed him. (Summary by Kristingj)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Author(s)
Alexandre Read more [...]