Historical Fiction audiobooks

Gates of Fire - Abridged

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Steven Pressfield brings the battle of Thermopylae to brilliant life.”—Pat Conroy

At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army.

Day after... Read more

The Dark Frigate - Abridged

By: Charles Boardman Hawes

Narrated by: Dominick Allen

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In seventeenth century England, a terrible accident forces orphaned Philip Marsham to flee London in fear for his life. Bred to the sea, he signs on with the "Rose of Devon," a dark frigate bound for the quiet shores of Newfoundland.

Philip's bold spirit and knowledge of the sea soon win him his captain's regard. But when the "Rose of Devon" is... Read more

A Dangerous Fortune - Abridged

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: Tim Curry

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A breathtaking thriller featuring "political and amorous intrigues, cold-blooded murder, and financial crises" (San Francisco Chronicle), from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Column of Fire

In 1866, tragedy strikes the exclusive Windfield School when a young student drowns in a mysterious accident. His death and its aftermath... Read more

The Midwife's Apprentice - Abridged

By: Karen Cushman

Narrated by: Charlotte Coleman

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On a frosty morning sometime in the fourteenth century, in a village somewhere in England, a gift known only as Brat was sleeping in a dung heap.

"You, girl. Are you alive or dead?"

When she opened her eyes, she saw an important-looking woman with a sharp glance and a sharp nose and a wimple starched into sharp pleats. This woman was Jane the... Read more

Into 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

Catherine Called Birdy - Abridged

By: Karen Cushman

Narrated by: Kate Maberly

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

An abridged audiobook of the historical fiction classic, a Newbery Honor Book.
 
Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man—any rich man, no matter how awful.

But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to... 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

Cold Sassy Tree - Abridged

By: Olive Ann Burns

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If the preacher's wife's petticoat showed, the ladies would make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things took a scandalous turn. That was the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, eloped with Miss Love Simpson—a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee! On that day,... Read more

The Fortune of War - Abridged

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and... Read more

The Surgeon's Mate - Abridged

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home to bring news of their latest victory. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he caused to the French intelligence network in the New World and the British packet carrying them is shadowed by two American privateers.

The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as... Read more

Desolation Island - Abridged

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sent to rescue Governor Bligh, former captain of HMS Bounty, Jack Aubrey sets off for Australia in the Leopold with his friend Stephen Maturin and a hold full of convicts in this fifth of the Aubrey/Maturin series.

A beautiful and dangerous spy lurks among these prisoners, as does an even more lethal traveling companion, gaol fever, a treacherous... Read more

City of Light - Abridged

By: Lauren Belfer

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Breathtaking . . . a remarkable blend of murder mystery, love story, political intrigue, and tragedy of manners.”—USA Today

The year is 1901. Buffalo, New York, is poised for glory. With its booming industry and newly electrified streets, Buffalo is a model for the century just beginning.

Louisa Barrett has made... Read more

Timeline

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

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

The 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

The 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

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

The 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

The 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

Nefer 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

Gap 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

The Four Just Men (Unabridged)

By: Edgar Wallace

Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Foreign Secretary Sir Philip Ramon receives a threatening, greenish-grey letter signed FOUR JUST MEN, he remains determined to see his Aliens Extradition Bill made law. A device in the members' smoke room and a sudden magnesium flash that could easily have been nitro-glycerine leave Scotland Yard baffled. Even Fleet Street cannot... Read more