Historical Fiction audiobooks

Aspire to the Heavens - Abridged

By: Mary Clark

Narrated by: Mary Higgins Clark

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The man who would become the first president of the United States comes to life in this biographical novel written by acclaimed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark. Strongly influenced by the gentility and generosity of spirit of his older brother, the young George matures into a devoted and able public servant in both the military and political... Read more

Sweet Liar - Abridged

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Mel Harris

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Beloved bestselling author Jude Deveraux follows a savvy young woman into the intriguing heart of a past mystery—and into the arms of a once-in-a-lifetime love.

It was her father's dying wish that Samantha Elliot search for her grandmother, who'd disappeared from Louisville when she was a baby. So here she was in New York City...her parents dead,... Read more

On Leaving Charleston - Abridged

By: Alexandra Ripley

Narrated by: Diane Ladd

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This installment of Alexandra Ripley's Old South saga— begun in the bestselling Charleston— traces the lives of the prominent South Carolina Tradd family from the turn of the century to 1935. From an ugly duckling love child, Garden Tradd became the glorious belle her mother, Margaret, had longed to be. With breathtaking... Read more

Charleston - Abridged

By: Alexandra Ripley

Narrated by: Diane Ladd

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As a child, Elizabeth Tradd witnessed the horror of war and as a young girl, she learned the worst that men can do. As a woman, she discovers the breathtaking excitement that comes to but a lucky few. Here is the story of a Charleston family and the courage, love, and passion that bind them to each other and their vibrant South Carolina city.... Read more

Grass Crown - Abridged

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: F. Murray Abraham

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of the captivating bestseller
THE FIRST MAN IN ROME...
the timeless saga of power, passion
and conflict of Ancient Rome continues...

The magnificent glory of Republican Rome is threatened when a struggle for power erupts among the men who shaped its hard-won peace. At its center are two extraordinary leaders: Gaius Marius,... Read more

Duchess - Abridged

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Nicol Williamson

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux captures the thrill of an American beauty's Highlands wedding, where a royal title is at stake—and where love wins the day.

Claire Willoughby risked losing millions in her inheritance if, as decreed by her grandfather, she did not wed an "acceptable" man. Harry Montgomery, the eleventh Duke of... Read more

The Great Alone - Abridged

By: Janet Dailey

Narrated by: Lloyd Bochner

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

This landmark saga of adventure and romance spans 200 years against the rich and dangerous wilds of Alaska as a backdrop. The epic begins with the love of a beautiful Aleut woman for a noble and ambitious Cossack hunter. From their union come seven generations of a proud breed of native Alaskans, in whose veins flows the blood of the many... Read more

Dance with the Devil - Abridged

By: Kirk Douglas

Narrated by: Kirk Douglas

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

Thought-provoking, riveting, and erotic, Dance with the Devil is the debut novel of legendary actor Kirk Douglas. Hollywood can be a tough town, but it's been awfully good to Danny Dennison. At 55, he's wealthy, successful, and respected throughout the film world. But Danny has been living a lie. Haunted by his past, he longs to find peace and... Read more

Buffalo Girls

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Betty Buckley

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A strange old woman caked in Montana mud pens a letter to her darling daughter back East—the writer's name is Martha Jane, but her friends call her Calamity...

I am the Wild West, no show about it. I was one of the people who kept it wild.

Larry McMurtry returns to the territory of his Pulitzer Prize–winning masterwork, Lonesome Dove, to sing the... Read more

The First Man in Rome - Abridged

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: David Ogden Stiers

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

"The First Man in Rome was not the best man: he was the First among other men who were his equals...To be the First Man in Rome was something far better than kingship..."

In the first century B.C. at the height of the Roman Republic, two men set their sights on becoming the First Man - the Roman more respected than any other. Marius, a... Read more

Mountain Laurel - Abridged

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Judith Light

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bestselling author Jude Deveraux spins a rollicking story of a mismatched couple who unearth a sparkling, irresistible passion across the rugged West!

Captain Ring Montgomery was handsome, a skilled rider, a crack shot, popular with the men and their ladies. That was reason enough for a jealous, surly colonel to saddle Montgomery with a most... Read more

A Knight in Shining Armor - Abridged

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Stephanie Zimbalist

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux will capture your heart with signature classic novel, a time travel romance featuring a present-day heroine and a dashing hero from the sixteenth century!

Abandoned by a cruel fate, lovely Dougless Montgomery lies weeping upon a cold tombstone in an English church. Suddenly, the most extraordinary... Read more

The Last Enchantment - Abridged

By: Mary Stewart

Narrated by: Nicol Williamson

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

Arthur Pendragon is king! With the great sword Caliburn in his hand and Merlin the enchanter at his side, Arthur comes out of hiding to claim the crown he was born to wear. Unchallenged on the battlefield, he melds the country together in a time of promise. But Merlin, Arthur's protector, sees the glories and horrors that await the new king.... Read more

The Hollow Hills - Abridged

By: Mary Stewart

Narrated by: Nicol Williamson

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Hollow Hills recreates the suspense and excitement of an ancient legend— how Merlin the Enchanter, prophet, visionary, and adviser to kings— keeps Arthur, the future king of Britain, safe. Merlin keeps watch over Arthur in remote secrecy, safe from the warring kings and Saxons who plot against his father, King Uther.... Read more

The Count of Monte Cristo

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 43 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

A popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling... Read more

Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

Narrated by: Jill Masters

Length: 32 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"I do not say there is no character as well drawn in Shakespeare [as D'Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love so wholly."
--Robert Louis Stevenson

"The lasting and universal popularity of The Three Musketeers shows that Dumas, by artlessly expressing his own nature in the persons of his heroes, was responding to that craving for action,... Read more

The King Must Die - Abridged

By: Mary Renault

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set in ancient Greece, a powerful novel about Theseus by Mary Renault.This is the story of the young Theseus: Prince of Troizen, King of Eleusis and Athens, and slayer of the Minotaur. Acclaimed novelist Mary Renault weaves myth, legend, history, and fiction into the story of a young hero's search for his destiny and the countless challenges he... Read more

Dessa Rose - Abridged

By: Sherley Williams

Narrated by: Ruby Dee

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1829, a pregnant woman is condemned to die for a murderous act of rebellion. Meanwhile, in North Carolina, a woman is accused of giving sanctuary to runaway slaves. Dessa Rose is the heartwarming story of an extraordinary friendship between two strong, remarkable women from very different backgrounds, both caught in the shadow of slavery in... Read more

Les Miserables - Abridged

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jean Valjean is one of society's victims. A poor but honest peasant, he is caught stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's starving family and is sent to prison. By the time of his eventual release, he has become a hardened criminal, but his friendship with the saintly Monseigneur Bienvenu gives him another chance at life. This new,... Read more

The Seventh Secret - Abridged

By: Irving Wallace

Narrated by: Paul Scofield

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Russian museum curator acquires a painting of a public building that includes a modification completed in 1952. The artist: Adolf Hitler. A prominent historian is mysteriously killed while in the final stages of research for his latest book— a biography of the fü hrer. An American architect preparing a book on... Read more

Destroyed Solemnly

By: Meisen Zhou

Narrated by: Lang Chuan

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In the autumn of 1919, Xinghua Coal Mining Co., Ltd. began large-scale mining of the Liujiawa coalfield in the Yellow River paleo-channel basin, causing mining-induced earthquakes and ground subsidence. Initially, about a dozen or so acres of land collapsed, rendering some areas uncultivable. Villagers brought their grievances to the company,... Read more

The Return of the Native

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Jill Masters

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This fine novel sets in opposition two of Thomas Hardy’s most unforgettable creations: his heroine, the sensuous, free-spirited Eustacia Vye, and the solemn, majestic stretch of upland in Dorsetshire he called Egdon Heath. The famous opening reveals the haunting power of that dark, forbidding moor where proud Eustacia fervently awaits a... Read more

The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Buck, a huge four-year-old Scottish Shepherd-Saint Bernard cross-breed, lived a life of ease at Judge Miller's Santa Clara Valley estate. This is the story of Buck and how he was thrust into the life of a sled-dog in the savage Klondike during the Gold Rush, and how he ran with the wolves. Jack London, born in San Francisco on January 12,... Read more

Der Spion von Ortry - Karl Mays Gesammelte Werke, Band 58 (Ungekürzt)

By: Karl May

Narrated by: Heiko Grauel

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Im dunkelsten Paris spielt ein Teil dieses Bandes, dessen Geschehnisse zwischen Frankreich und Deutschland hin und her pendeln und nunmehr auch die zweite und dritte Generation der Greifenklaus erfassen. Wieder geht einer aus der schwer geprüften Familie seinen einsamen Weg, den ihm alter Hass und neue Intrigen zu verlegen suchen. Aber langsam... Read more