Historical Fiction audiobooks
Tides of War - Abridged
By: Steven Pressfield
Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: Yes
Brilliant at war, a master of politics, and a charismatic lover, Alcibiades was Athens’ favorite son and the city’s greatest general.
A prodigal follower of Socrates, he embodied both the best and the worst of the Golden Age of Greece. A commander on both land and sea, he led his armies to victory after victory.
But like the heroes in a great... Read more
Affair - Abridged
By: Amanda Quick
Narrated by: Stephanie Beacham
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Charlotte Arkendale knew all there was to know about men. After all, she'd made a career out of steering marriage-minded women away from untrustworthy members of the opposite sex.
Yet nothing could have prepared her for Baxter St. Ives--an arresting stranger too daring, too determined, too dangerous to be her new man-of-affairs. Still, perhaps he... Read more
I Thee Wed - Abridged
By: Amanda Quick
Narrated by: Janet McTeer
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It isn't easy making a living as a lady's companion when one possesses a sharp tongue and an original mind. That's why Emma Greyson has gone through three such positions in six months. Her current post at a tiresome country house party has her bored to tears—until an extraordinary encounter with the legendary Edison Stokes leads to a secret... Read more
View audiobookMischief - Abridged
By: Amanda Quick
Narrated by: Harriet Walter
Length: 3 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Imogen Waterstone has always prided herself on being a thoroughly independent young woman, but now she needs a man of implacable will and nerves of iron. That's why she invited Matthias Marshall, infamous Earl of Colchester, to her home in Upper Strickland. Who better than the legendary explorer to help her lay the perfect trap?
Her scheme is... Read more
Mistress - Abridged
By: Amanda Quick
Narrated by: Harriet Walter
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
After a year of grand adventures touring the classical ruins of Italy and Greece, Iphiginia Bright returned to England to discover that the real excitement was at home. It seems that her Aunt Zoe has fallen victim to a sinister blackmailer and only Iphiginia can hope to stop the culprit before he can do more harm. Her plan is inspired: Imitating... Read more
View audiobookMystique - Abridged
By: Amanda Quick
Narrated by: Suzanne Bertish
Length: 3 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A tantalizing tale of a legendary knight and a headstrong lady whose daring quest for a mysterious crystal will draw them into a whirlwind of treachery–and desire.
When the fearsome knight called Hugh the Relentless swept into Lingwood Manor like a storm, everyone cowered–except Lady Alice. Sharp-tongued and unrepentant, the flame haired beauty... Read more
Wicked Widow - Abridged
By: Amanda Quick
Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Scandal is afoot and seduction is in the air in this, Amanda Quick's sixteenth and most deliciously entertaining novel. Now the mistress of Regency-period romantic suspense brings us a notorious widow and a man of mystery as they flirt with danger, fight temptation, and fall into the snare of desire and intrigue....
Madeline Deveridge is all too... Read more
With This Ring - Abridged
By: Amanda Quick
Narrated by: Janet McTeer
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Leo Drake, the “Mad Monk of Monkcrest,” is notoriously eccentric and unquestionably reclusive. But he is also a noted antiquities expert, which is why Beatrice Poole has demanded his reluctant assistance.
The freethinking authoress of “horrid novels,” Beatrice is searching for the Forbidden Rings of Aphrodite, a mythic treasure she suspects... Read more
Vanished - Abridged
By: Danielle Steel
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Vanished tells the story of a man and woman faced with an almost unthinkable tragedy—the mysterious abduction of their son.
In the late 1930s, in the shadow of the Lindbergh kidnapping, and as war looms in Europe, Marielle Patterson shares and elegant Manhattan brownstone with her husband, Malcolm, and their little boy, Teddy. Though the... Read more
Booth - Abridged
By: David M. Robertson
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
A gripping historical novel set amidst the confusion and chaos of the Civil War, Booth is the story of the only conspirator in the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln who was not killed or executed--a young man who falls under the spell of the charismatic and captivating world-famous stage actor, and is gradually sucked into the vortex of... Read more
View audiobookInto the Wilderness - Abridged
By: Sara Donati
Narrated by: Jayne Atkinson
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Weaving a vibrant tapestry of fact and fiction, Into the Wilderness sweeps us into another time and place . . . and into the heart of a forbidden, incandescent affair between a spinster Englishwoman and an American frontiersman. Here is an epic of romance and history that will captivate readers from the very first page.
When Elizabeth Middleton,... Read more
Memoirs of A Geisha - Abridged
By: Arthur Golden
Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. It concludes with... Read more
View audiobookTimeline
By: Michael Crichton
Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
Length: 15 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational... Read more
View audiobookThe Emperor's General - Abridged
By: James Webb
Narrated by: David Dukes
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Captain Jay Marsh had never questioned where his ultimate loyalty lay. He had witnessed the bloody horror left behind by the retreating Japanese army during World War II's final days. And he had abandoned his beautiful Filipina fiancée to see his duty through.
But not even Marsh could guess the terrible personal price he would have to pay for his... Read more
The Plague Tales - Abridged
By: Ann Benson
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Fourteenth-century physician Alejandro Guzman, caught performing an autopsy in Spain, flees across Europe at the time of the Black Death to escape execution for his heretical deed. When he arrives in the Papal city of Avignon, he is conscripted against his will to serve as a Plague Doctor in the court of England's Edward III. Unfolding in a... Read more
View audiobookThe Letter of Marque - Abridged
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The 12th installment in the Aubrey/ Maturin series.
The time is the early 1800s, and the British Navy stands as the only bulwark against the militant fanaticism of Napoleonic France. Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime his has not committed. His old friend Stephen Maturin,... Read more
Timeline - Abridged
By: Michael Crichton
Narrated by: Stephen Lang
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational... Read more
View audiobookThe Curse of the Pharaohs
By: Elizabeth Peters
Narrated by: Susan O’Malley
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody Emerson and her archaeologist husband are busy raising their young son; yet Amelia dreams only of the dust and detritus of ancient civilizations. Happily, circumstances are about to demand their immediate presence in Egypt. Sir Henry Baskerville had just discovered a tomb in Luxor when he promptly died under... Read more
View audiobookThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Abridged
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Jack Lemmon
Length: 2 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn follows Tom... Read more
Half A Heart - Abridged
By: Rosellen Brown
Narrated by: Jayne Atkinson & LisaGay Hamilton
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Rosellen Brown's extraordinary new novel, Half a Heart, tells the story of a former civil rights activist, Miriam Vener, who feels trapped in the comfortable white upper-middle-class life she leads with her family in Houston in the 1980's. That life suddenly shatters with the appearance, after almost eighteen years, of Veronica (Ronnee), her... Read more
View audiobookNefer the Silent - Abridged
By: Christian Jacq
Narrated by: Ezra Knight
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
They built a civilization ahead of its time, and dominated the ancient world.
They defined an era of war, love, passion, power, and betrayal.
They were a people of mystery whose secrets have turned to dust -- but who inspire our awe and wonder even to this day....
The ancient Egyptians
They showed us how to live. And how to die.
Christian... Read more
Lederstrumpf
By: James Fenimore Cooper
Narrated by: A. Beckert, H. Fleischmann, H. Jäger & M. Philipp
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Eine interessante Hörspielreihe aus der klassischen Kinderliteratur - ein Dauerbrenner Read more
View audiobookGap Creek - Abridged
By: Robert Morgan
Narrated by: Jill Hill
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
An Oprah's Book Club Selection
An unflinching tale of turn-of-the-century Appalachian life, Gap Creek chronicles the challenging first year in the marriage of Julie Harmon and Hank Richards. After losing both her father and brother before turning 17, Julie faces fire, flood, grifters, sickness, and starvation with grim determination and... Read more
Raffles: the Amateur Cracksman (Unabridged)
By: E.W. Hornung
Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Why should I work when I could steal?' demands A. J. Raffles, a dashing man-about-town by day and a cat burglar by night. Raffles' position as a champion cricket player and prominent member of society provides the perfect cover for his daring burglaries. In these short stories, narrated by Bunny Manders, Raffles' nervous but admiring accomplice,... Read more
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