Historical Fiction audiobooks

Falling Angels

By: Tracy Chevalier

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1901 London, as the precise social order of the Victorian era winds down and the forward-looking Edwardian order takes wing, three strangers meet in the city's stony Highgate Cemetery. Beautiful Lavinia revels in the elaborate trappings of the past. Plain Maude strives to shape the future. Simon Fields, a boy their age, is bound by... Read more

Der 21. Juli (ungekürzt)

By: Christian von Ditfurth

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Am 20. Juli 1944 sprengen die Verschwörer um Graf Stauffenberg den "Führer" in die Luft. Doch dem Jubel über Hitlers Tod folgt gleich die Ernüchterung: Die Attentäter haben nicht genug Rückhalt in der Bevölkerung und bei der Wehrmacht. Ihre verzweifelte Lage zwingt sie zu einem Bündnis mit Heinrich Himmler und der SS. Im letzten Augenblick... Read more

Desolation Island

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Jack's prize money has set the household accounts aright, but if he continues frittering it on naive extravagances, it will be gone in a fortnight. Fortunately he gets a commission aboard the Leopard, bound for Australia to rescue the hated and captive Captain Bligh. Read more

Rise to Rebellion - Abridged

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Victor Garber

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jeff Shaara dazzled readers with his bestselling novels Gods and Generals, The Last Full Measure, and Gone for Soldiers. Now the acclaimed author who illuminated the Civil War and the Mexican-American War brilliantly brings to life the American Revolution, creating a superb saga of the men who helped to forge the destiny of a nation.

In ... Read more

The Music of the Spheres - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Redfern

Narrated by: Tim Curry

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the London of 1795, intrigue and death walk the dark streets. England is at war with its neighbor and nemesis, France, and espionage is rampant. It is the job of Jonathan Absey at the Home Office to catch these spies, but his mind is elsewhere, his dreams haunted by the still unsolved murder of his fifteen-year-old daughter on these same... Read more

Mojave Crossing: The Sacketts

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: David Strathairn

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis L’Amour takes William Tell Sackett on a treacherous passage from the Arizona goldfields to the booming town of Los Angeles.

Tell Sackett was no ladies’ man, but he could spot trouble easily enough. And Dorinda Robiseau was the kind of trouble he wanted to avoid at any time—even more so when he had thirty pounds of gold in his saddlebags... Read more

May There Be a Road - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Spirited American stories gathered together for the first time

From the coasts of Brazil to the borders of Tibet to the very heartland of America, May There Be a Road gathers ten previously uncollected stories that capture the magnificent scope and sense of epic adventure that epitomize Louis L'Amour classic fiction.

In these vivid settings... Read more

Slightly Shady - Abridged

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Amanda Quick's bestselling trademark is a combination of suspense and passion in historical tales alight with sparkling wit and brimming with dangerous intrigue. Now she serves up the most tantalizing novel of her career as an enterprising woman allies herself with a mysterious spy, only to be caught in a seething brew of treachery — and... Read more

Springwater Wedding - Abridged

By: Linda Lael Miller

Narrated by: Jenna Stern

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once a frontier stagecoach stop, tiny Springwater has grown and changed and entered the twenty-first century. Cattle rustlers may still be stirring up trouble, but now they're high-tech operators in a modern world. Where stagecoaches once rolled along muddy roads, the Internet is now the newest highway in town. But heartbreak is still... Read more

Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Bernard Cornwell takes us back four thousand years, to a vibrant world of ritual and sacrifice that is at once timeless and wholly original. This historical novel unlocks the mystery of Britain's most haunting and puzzling structure, and tells a tale of three brothers—fierce rivals—who are uneasily united in their quest to... Read more

Sackett: The Sacketts

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: David Strathairn

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

William Tell Sackett had followed a different path from his younger brothers, but his name, like theirs, was spoken with respect and just a little fear.  Where Orrin had brought law and order from New Mexico to the plains of Montana, backed up by the gunfighting talents of his brother Tye, Tell Sackett's destiny drew him to Texas after he had to... Read more

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Narrated by: Richard Burton

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Burton and Ralph Richardson join together in this unqiue musical production of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The superb delivery of both these actors is augmented by an original soundtrack composed by David Moore. Read more

Crocodile on the Sandbank

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Susan O’Malley

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Egyptologist Amelia Peabody in the first mystery in the Victorian-era, New York Times-bestselling series."If Indiana Jones were female, a wife, and a mother who lived in Victorian times, he would be Amelia Peabody Emerson."—Publishers WeeklyAmelia Peabody, that indomitable product of the Victorian age, embarks on her first Egyptian... Read more

Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival on the island, until he meets Friday, a tribesman whom he saves from being sacrificed. Initially,... Read more

F. Scott Fitzgerald Stories

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Kimberly Schraf

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Bernice Bobs Her Hair" and "The Jelly-Bean:" Two of Fitzgerald's finest stories of the Jazz Age. The first tells of a young woman who doesn't fit in her cousin's social life, and the second of love and social class. Read more

Around the World in 80 Days

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days -- and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompanied by his hot-blooded French manservant,... Read more

Jane Eyre - Abridged

By: Charlotte Bronte

Narrated by: Yadira Sanchez

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Una historia de amor accidentada. Las tres hermanas Bronte, Jane, Charlotte y Emmy publicaron en forma casi simultanea, a mediados del siglo XIX tres novelas, que ya son clasicas dentro de la literatura ingles. Quiza la mas popular ha sido "Jane Eyre" de Charlotte, por su gran dramatismo y su sensacional desarrollo. Esa historia de la... Read more

Los Últimos Días De Pompeya - Abridged

By: Edward Bulwer Lytton

Narrated by: Carlos Zambrano

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Aunque el mensaje que Bulwer-Lytton trata de transmitir en su novela, de que la erupcion que destruyo a Pompeya en los primeros anos de nuestra era, lo merecian por tratarse de una sociedad corrupta, puede ser discutible, nadie duda de lo emocionante de este romance historico. Read more

Los Dioses Tienen Sed - Abridged

By: Anatole France

Narrated by: Laura García

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Anatole France creo una de las grandes novelas, que sobre el fondo de los anos posteriores a la Revolucion Francesa y el desarrollo del Terror, muestra un punto de vista diferente sobre ese hecho historico. El protagonista de la obra, el pintor Evaristo Gamelin, revolucionario ferviente, se ven envuelto en los torbellinos de los hechos y acaba... Read more

La Madre - Abridged

By: Maxim Gorky

Narrated by: Laura García

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

Una ventana a ideas revolucionarias. Aunque La Madre de Gorky tiene quiza un exceso de retorica, es sin embargo una ventana a las ideas revolucionarias, en especial en el conmovedor retrato de la madre que decide tomar los rumbos de su hijo, cuando este es encarcelado por sus ideas. Pero mas importante que el argumento, es la excelente serie de... Read more

A Christmas Carol - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Bah Humbug!" That's how Ebeneezer Scrooge feels about Christmas--until the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future decide to show the crotchety old miser the error of his ways. Together they travel through time, revisiting all the people who have played an important role in Scrooge's life. And as their journey concludes, Scrooge is... Read more

Murder on the Mauretania - The Ocean Liner Mysteries - A captivating Edwardian mystery, book 2

By: Edward Marston

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

November 1907. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield sail from Liverpool to New York on the maiden voyage of the luxurious Mauretania. Employed by the Cunard Line again as private detectives, they pose as passengers on what proves to be a very eventful crossing. Dillman is instrumental in rescuing a crew member from being washed overboard in... Read more

The Far Side of the World - Abridged

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The 10th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin series

The War of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. Stephen Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Disaster in... Read more

Boone's Lick

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Larry McMurtry returns to the Old West in a fast-moving, comic tale about a woman determined to conquer anything that stands in the way of an ultimate confrontation with her wayward husband.

In his first historical novel in ten years, Larry McMurtry introduces Mary Margaret, a nineteenth-century version of the formidable, unforgettable Aurora... Read more