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Title: The Gold Sickle

Author: Eugene Sue

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Length: 2 hrs 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12/14/2016

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

The Gold Sickle; or, Hena the Virgin of the Isle of Sen. A Tale of Druid Gaul is the first part of Eugène Sue's The Mysteries of the People; or, History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages, in which he intended to produce a comprehensive "universal history," dating from the beginning of the present era down to his own days. Sue's own socialist leanings made this history that of the "successive struggles of the successively ruled with the successively ruling classes".

In the first volume we meet the Gallic chief Joel, whose descendants will typify the oppressed throughout the suite of novels. Joel and his son invite a traveller to share their supper one evening, curious as they are to hear his stories. When he refuses, they capture him; the exchange of stories around the hearth turns into a debate about freedom and what freedom is worth. (Summary by Petra, partly adapted from the Translator's Preface)

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Title: Rivals

Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Length: 3 hrs 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12/1/2016

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

The play is set in Bath in the 18th century, a town legendary for conspicuous consumption and fashion at the time. Wealthy, fashionable people went there to "take the waters", which were believed to have healing properties. The plot centres on the two young lovers, Lydia and Jack. Lydia, who reads a lot of popular novels of the time, wants a purely romantic love affair. To court her, Jack pretends to be "Ensign Beverley", a poor officer. Lydia is enthralled with the idea of eloping with a poor soldier in spite of her guardian, Mrs. Malaprop, a moralistic widow. Mrs. Malaprop is the chief comic figure of the play, thanks to her continual misuse of words that sound like the words she intends but mean something completely different. (The term malapropism was coined in reference to the character.) Lydia has two other suitors: Bob Acres (a somewhat buffoonish country gentleman), and Sir Lucius O'Trigger, an impoverished and combative Irish gentleman. Sir Lucius pays Lucy to carry love notes between him and Lydia (who uses the name "Delia"), but Lucy is swindling him: "Delia" is actually Mrs. Malaprop. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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Title: Ruth of Boston: A Story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Author: James Otis

Narrator: Laura Caldwell

Length: 3 hrs 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12/1/2016

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

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 girl's daily life might have been like during the beginnings of this colony. (Summary by Laura Caldwell)

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Title: Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Narrator: Phil Chenevert

Length: 2 hrs 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12/1/2016

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

A tragic but very captivating tale of a monk in the 17th century.

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Title: Aunt Crete's Emancipation

Author: Grace Livingston Hill

Narrator: Cori Samuel

Length: 2 hrs 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12/1/2016

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Aunt Lucretia 'Crete' to her family is a sweet, patient older woman, who lives with her narrow-minded sister and spoilt niece, acting as their unpaid and unappreciated domestic servant. When they leave town in order to avoid the unexpected visit of a "backwoods" cousin, she is left at home to welcome him. She's willing to love him whatever he's like, and he's looking for a home having lost his mother years before, so the two are ready to become fast friends. But what does that mean for Aunt Crete's prejudiced relatives and how can their wrongs against her be remedied? - Summary by Cori

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Title: Manchester Man

Author: Isabella Varley Banks

Narrator: Phil Benson

Length: 15 hrs 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 9/22/2016

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Jabez Clegg, the Manchester man, floats into this historical novel in 1799, carried downstream by the River Irk in flood. Jabez's rise to commercial success mirrors the rise of the city at the heart of the industrial revolution. Mrs George Linnaeus Banks (nee Isabella Varley) weaves a web of historical fact and fiction in a fast-paced story built around the rivalry between the Jabez and his nemesis Laurence Aspinall, and the fate of Augusta Ashton, who is loved by both but loves only one. An entertaining fictional journey through the early 19th century history of the city of Manchester, the book also has serious points to make about women's choices and domestic violence. (Summary by Phil Benson)

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Title: Chicot the Jester

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Narrator: John Van Stan

Length: 15 hrs 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 9/22/2016

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

This sequel to Dumas' "Marguerite de Valois" begins four years after the sudden death of King Charles IX and succession of his brother Henry III. The reign of King Henry III was plagued with rebellion and political intrigue due to the War of the Three Henries, where his regency was challenged by King Henry of Navarre (leader of the Huguenots) and Henry I, Duke of Guise (leader of the Catholic League). Dumas weaves two main storylines through this turbulent backdrop: one of the love ignited between le Comte de Bussy and la Dame de Monsoreau, and another of the friendship between King Henry III and his truly unique jester, Chicot (Jean-Antoine d'Anglerais). - Summary by jvanstan

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Title: Macdermots of Ballycloran

Author: Anthony Trollope

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Length: 16 hrs 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 9/7/2016

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

This is the story of the Macdermots of Ballycloran the story is about the tragic demise of a landowning family. Larry Macdermot lives in a dilapidated mansion in Co. Leitrim, whose mortgage to Joe Flannelly he cannot keep up. Enmity between the Macdermot and Flannelly families is sharpened by son Thady's having declined to marry Joe Flannelly's daughter, Sally. Macdermot's daughter, Feemy, is herself seduced by the locally hated English police officer, Captain Myles Ussher. This was Trollope's first published novel, which he began in September 1843 and completed by June 1845. However, it was not published until 1847. (Summary by Michele Eaton)

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Title: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Author: Vicente Blasco Ibanez

Narrator: Tony Oliva

Length: 16 hrs 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 9/7/2016

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Vicente Blasco Ibañez and translated into English by Charlotte Brewster Jordan, depicts two branches of a family with its roots in the pampas of Argentina. The wealthy Argentinian, Julio Madariaga, comes from Spain and raises himself from poverty, becoming a self-made, wealthy cattleman. He is a man of extremes; an honest man with a rascally knack for taking advantage of others; a self-made man with overweening pride, prejudices, and a sharp, flinty temper that can spark into violence, he is at the same time given to great generosity toward those who are under him. This almost feudal lord has two daughters who marry expatriates, a Frenchman and a German.

Julio Madariaga leaves his stamp on these two families who, after his death, return to the native countries of his two sons in law. At that time, the mood of Europe is in many ways similar to that of the old gaucho, a mixture of generosity, explosive anger, romanticism, strong prejudices, and wounded pride, a mood composed of extremes painted on an oversized canvas. World War I is waiting in the wings and will leave its own stamp on the old gaucho's lineage, pitting them against each other on opposite sides in the violent first year that many think will last only a few months but will, in fact, result in improbable destruction and loss of lives. An old Russian visionary given to drink, looks out on red skies one day and experiences its coming in a vision: hoofbeats; and riders. --Summary by Tony Oliva and released to public domain.

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Title: Hidden Hand

Author: E.D.E.N. Southworth

Narrator: Bridget Gaige

Length: 16 hrs 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 9/7/2016

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

"If you will listen to this book, you will meet a cast of unforgettable characters, as different from one another as the sun and moon. But they have one thing in common - all of them hide many, many secrets. The plot of this book is full of twists which may leave you guessing until the end. Bridget's lively reading adds much to the joy of listening to this book." (Summary by Stav Nisser)