Historical Fiction audiobooks

おれの女房

By: 山本周五郎

Narrated by: 七味春五郎

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

おれの女房　主題歌■男性vocalhttps://youtu.be/z4sMk5fGrzI
■女性vocalhttps://youtu.be/NWjEOPVF1aE

■あらすじ　狩野派の麒麟児といわれた又五郎は、狩野派を飛び出しーー伸び悩んでいた。描く絵描く絵が気に入らない。評価は下がり続け、世間にそっぽをむかれながらも、なんとか新しい工夫をこころみるが、女房のお石はガミガミパリパリのし通しで……
　若い絵師とその妻をとりまく下町の人々の生活を活写した、山本周五郎の感動短編です。

■登場人物紹介平野又五郎……狩野派の絵師。旗本の三男。お　石　　……又五郎の女房。長く続く貧乏に耐え切れず出奔する。狩野　信近……狩野派の長老。又五郎の師。島田敬之助……小旗本の子。又五郎の友人。松屋　貞造……反物商... Read more

Enchaînés par le Désir

By: Sage Dearly

Narrated by: Élise Monclair

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Une romance historique douce, une fuite périlleuse, un avenir pour lequel il vaut la peine de se battre.L'amour est une rébellion dangereuse dans un monde où la liberté n'est qu'un rêve lointain.Elara n'a connu que les chaînes et la peur depuis qu'elle a été capturée et vendue à un brutal propriétaire de plantation. Mais la seule lueur d'espoir... Read more

Wege des Schicksals

By: Elisa Rimpach

Narrated by: Lana Ghafoor

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Zwei Schwestern stellen sich den Herausforderungen in der Ferne Afrikas.
Die historische Familiensaga zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts geht bewegend weiter! Tanga, 1906: Nachdem Elsa nun schon mehrere Jahre in der Kolonie Deutsch-Ostafrika lebt, folgt ihr schließlich ihre Schwester Isolde nach. Deren Mission ist es, die bahnbrechenden Forschungen... Read more

Crime and Prejudice

By: Julia Miller

Narrated by: Melanie Crawley

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

What if the beloved characters in Pride and Prejudice were lawbreakers? The twelve stories in Crime and Prejudice imagine a deliciously seamy underside to Jane Austen's world. Arson, highway robbery, petty crime and murder mingle with fox-hunting, bawdy-houses, gaming-tables and transportation to Australia in these tales recounted to Elizabeth... Read more

A Killer in the Wings

By: Benedict Brown

Narrated by: George Blagden

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A murder on the stage of a packed theatre, a company of actors ripped apart by rivalries, and a secret that has simmered for decades. England, 1927. When an actor is killed during the performance of a new mystery play, his colleagues refuse to believe it was an accident and turn to Lord Edgington for help. The renowned detective must navigate a... Read more

Listy do E.

By: Kristine Turowska

Narrated by: Magdalena Emilianowicz

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Uciekając od samego siebie, nigdy nie zaznasz pełni szczęścia Początek XIX wieku, Rozalin pod Warszawą. To właśnie tutaj nowe życie ma zacząć K., niemłoda już kobieta z ciężkim bagażem doświadczeń życiowych. We Francji zostawiła całą swoją przeszłość, dawne trudne decyzje i ukochaną przyjaciółkę, do której teraz regularnie wysyła listy. To... Read more

Die erste Kosmonautin

By: Brandon Q. Morris

Narrated by: Mark Bremer

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Nie wieder ins All. Das hat sich Mandy Neumann, die letzte Kosmonautin der DDR, geschworen, nachdem sie kurz nach dem 80. Geburtstag ihrer Republik der Todesfalle entkommen ist, in die sich die Raumstation "Völkerfreundschaft" verwandelt hatte. Aber die Gefahr, auf die Volkspolizei-Leutnant Tobias Wagner in einem Sperrgebiet in der Lausitz... Read more

Murder With Manners

By: Blythe Baker

Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A visit to relatives in Newport is supposed to give Sylvia time to rest and consider the latest revelation about Miles' past. But when a picnic hosted by the local yacht club ends with a mysterious death, Sylvia is drawn into a dangerous investigation. Read more

Murder With Money

By: Blythe Baker

Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

When Sylvia's sister disappears unexpectedly, Sylvia doubts the official story. Joan wouldn't run off to California to become a film star without first saying goodbye to her family. Clearly, she's in some sort of danger and it's up to Sylvia to find out what.



But can Sylvia set aside her doubts about her mysterious butler in order to enlist help... Read more

A Scot for Halloween

By: Cynthia Luhrs

Narrated by: Kate Parker

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The scent of saltwater and rum lingered in the air as Mary realized her quiet beach walk had somehow crossed paths with the 18th century.Mary Snow never expected her quiet morning walk to lead to an adventure straight out of legend.But when she stumbles over a rugged Scottish pirate washed up on the beach, claiming to have traveled through time,... Read more

Carmilla: A Bone-Chilling Halloween Vampire Classic

By: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Narrated by: Oliver Thompson

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“Carmilla” by J. Sheridan Le Fanu is a classic gothic novella that predates Bram Stoker's Dracula and stands as one of the earliest works in vampire literature. This bone-chilling tale unfolds in a remote Austrian castle, where the young protagonist, Laura, lives a sheltered life. Her tranquil existence is shattered when a mysterious and... Read more

La Leyenda de Serica

By: Esteban Perelló Renedo

Narrated by: Esteban Perelló Renedo

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A mediados del siglo VI, el emperador de Bizancio Justiniano y su esposa Teodora se propusieron descubrir el secreto de la seda, una tela tan deseada y cotizada que su precio superaba al del mismo oro. Nadie conocía si su origen era animal o vegetal, puesto que el emperador del país en donde se elaboraba (Serica), penaba con la muerte a quien... Read more

A Marrying Man

By: G.B Stern

Narrated by: Sybex Books

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In "A Marrying Man," G.B. Stern introduces readers to a world of complex emotions, family dynamics, and the pursuit of happiness. At the center of the story is a man whose life is shaped by his relationships and his choices in love and marriage. Through a captivating narrative, G.B. Stern delves into the intricacies of human connections,... Read more

夕靄の中

By: 山本周五郎

Narrated by: 七味春五郎

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

夕靄の中　主題歌https://youtu.be/jiUH-TXphhghttps://youtu.be/r5G5r3dI-Uk
１９５２年(昭和２７年)２月　『キング』
■あらすじ　　やくざ者の娘とかけおちをした半七
　あえなくとらえられ、娘も奪い返されてしまう。
　おつやが、恋敵といっしょになることをしり、復讐のため江戸に戻る。　　そんな半七を追い回す男が会った。
　サスペンスタッチの名作短編です。
■登場人物半　七……仕立職人。おつやと相思相愛の仲となる。七兵衛……橋場一家の博打打ちの親分。おつや……七兵衛の娘。半七を慕っている。繁二郎……おつやの思い人金　次……橋場一家の代貸。おつやを狙っている。おいね……早逝した｢越後屋｣の女中。おかね……おいねの母。男　　……目明しの親分。

■用語集お店... Read more

Luna en lo alto

By: Brett Davis

Narrated by: Santiago Machain

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

En memoria de Jean Marcel Nicolas/Johnny Nicholas, un haitiano del campo de Dora que se hizo pasar por aviador estadounidense. Esta historia es lo que podría haber sido su vida si hubiera sido verdad. La historia de un aviador de Tuskegee. El sueño de Johnny Nicholas es pilotar aviones, un sueño imposible para un hombre de color en la América de... Read more

Jane: A Social Incident

By: Marie Corelli

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

’Jane ’came out’ at fifty-seven and everybody knew it.’
So begins this heartwarming tale of a courteous country maid who comes into a vast inheritance, and uses it to travel into high society in London. along the way, she encounters the snobs of the society set, royalty entirely without regality, and a whole host of characters that make clear... Read more

Ziska: The Problem Of A Wicked Soul

By: Marie Corelli

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the first bestsellers in history. A famous French painter, love-struck Scotsman, and mysterious Egyptian princess form a love triangle replete with mystery, tourists, hieroglyphs, revenge, and day trips to the pyramids, leading to an inevitable dark ending...
Marie Corelli, the Victorian novelist beloved of Gladstone, Churchill and... Read more

Spotkaliśmy się w obozowym piekle

By: Krystyna Toczek

Narrated by: Mateusz Drozda

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Miłość może rozkwitnąć wszędzie. Nawet w piekle. Rok 1944, obóz koncentracyjny Dora. Major Jurgen Sztoch, rozdarty między żołnierską powinnością a własnym sumieniem, z każdym dniem coraz wyraźniej dostrzega rozmiary dziejącej się na jego oczach apokalipsy. Więźniarka Anna, którą zauważa pewnego dnia na rampie obozowego peronu, jest dla niego jak... Read more

The Loss of the Burying Ground

By: J. Anderson Coats

Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating, Allyson Morgan & Justis B...

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The Burying Ground was supposed to bring peace.

The ship was built for one thing: to carry the delegations of two warring nations into neutral waters, where the heads of state would sign a peace treaty and end the war that has been raging for a generation. When it goes down, a pair of survivors—Cora, daughter of a Duran newspaper reporter,
and... Read more

Home and Away

By: Rochelle Alers

Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Spanning more than eighty years, from Memphis in the 1930s and 1940s to present-day Chicago, this sweeping novel draws on the turbulent history of the baseball’s Negro Leagues, as the great-granddaughter of a former player sets out to tell her family’s story—and redefine her own.

Harper Fleming is done with being passed over. As a journalist for... Read more

Bronshtein in the Bronx

By: Robert Littell

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A wry, thought-provoking fictional portrayal of ten pivotal weeks in the life of Leon Trotsky, inspired by the Russian revolutionary’s exile in New York City in 1917, by the New York Times bestselling author of The Company On Saturday, January 13, 1917, an ocean liner docks in New York Harbor. Among the disembarking emigrants is one Lev... Read more

The Resurrectionist

By: A. Rae Dunlap

Narrated by: Tom Kiteley

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of The Alienist and Anatomy: A Love Story, a decadently macabre, dark and twisty gothic debut
set in 19th century Scotland – when real-life serial killers Burke and Hare terrorized the streets of Edinburgh –
as a young medical student is lured into the illicit underworld of body snatching.
Historical fiction, true crime, and dark... Read more

The Indigo Heiress

By: Laura Frantz

Narrated by: Pilar Witherspoon

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1774, Juliet Catesby lives with her father and sister at Royal Vale, the James River plantation founded by her Virginia family over a century before. Indigo cultivation is her foremost concern, though its export tethers her family to the powerful Buchanan clan of Glasgow, Scotland. When the heir of the Buchanan firm arrives on their shores,... Read more

Leaving Independence

By: William W. Johnstone & J.A. Johnstone

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The Greatest Historical Western Writers of the 21st Century, William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, bring to life the harrowing journeys of the fearless pioneers who braved the Oregon Trail—and lived to tell the tale …Independence, Missouri, 1865. Seasoned wagon master Virgil Grissom prepares to lead a new group of families westward across the... Read more