Historical Fiction audiobooks

A Company of Swans - Abridged

By: Eva Ibbotson

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A Company of Swans is a sweeping tale of romance, freedom and the beauty of ballet from award-winning author, Eva Ibbotson.

Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for... Read more

Ivanhoe

By: Walter Scott

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 19 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in England during Richard I's reign, Sir Walter Scott's fanciful, vivid reinterpretation of medieval life is a successful blend of fact, myth, and romance.Upon returning from the Crusades, where he served with King Richard I, Wilfred of Ivanhoe is met with his father's disapproval, having fallen in love with Rowena, his father's ward. When... Read more

Ninety-Three

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1793 in France—the year of the guillotine. Already, Louis XVI has been sentenced to the scaffold, and terror reigns. Ideals topple in the face of political necessity, alliances founder, and intrigue is a way of life.The architects of the Revolution—Marat, Danton, and Robespierre—have set up an embryo parliament called the Convention,... Read more

Quo Vadis

By: Henryk Sienkiewicz

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 22 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Written nearly a century ago and translated into over fifty languages, this masterpiece of historical fiction is one of the best-selling novels in history and the inspiration for the MGM motion picture of 1951. An epic of love and courage in Nero's time, it illustrates the conflict of moral ideas within the Roman Empire at the dawn of... Read more

The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Kristen Underwood

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country," Nathaniel Hawthorne'sThe Scarlet Letterreaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact of a single passionate act on the lives of three... Read more

What I Saw and How I Lied

By: Judy Blundell

Narrated by: Caitlin Greer

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This National Book Award winner set during the aftermath of WWII is now available in paperback!When Evie's father returned home from World War II, the family fell back into its normal life pretty quickly. But Joe Spooner brought more back with him than just good war stories. When movie-star handsome Peter Coleridge, a young ex-GI who served in... Read more

Don Quixote

By: Miguel De Cervantes

Narrated by: Andrew Sachs

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

DON QUIXOTE - by far the most famous book in Spanish literature - was originally intended by Cervantes as a skit on traditional popular ballads, but he also parodied the romances of chivalry. As a result he produced one of the most entertaining adventure stories of all time and created, in Don Quixote and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, two... Read more

The Doublet Affair

By: Fiona Buckley

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In To Shield the Queen, we were introduced to Ursula Blanchard, lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I and one of the most entrancing mystery heroines to come along in many a season. Having once saved the Virgin Queen from political disaster, now young Ursula faces an even greater challenge. Some of her old acquaintances may be plotting to... Read more

Framley Parsonage

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 18 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Robarts, a young vicar, is newly arrived in the village of Framley. With ambitions to further his career, he seeks connections in the county's high society. He is soon preyed upon by a local member of parliament to guarantee a substantial loan, which Mark in a moment of weakness agrees to—despite knowing the man is a notorious debtor—and... Read more

Getting It Right

By: William F. Buckley

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

As the 1960s kick off, the Cuban missile crisis has brought the Communist threat to within miles of the United States, and extremist movements roil the American Right. Two college students, Woodroe Raynor and Leonora Goldstein, meet in the fall of 1960 before embarking on separate paths. Woodroe goes to work for the indiscriminately... Read more

Salambo

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: Fred Williams

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Beyond the gardens of Hamilcar’s palace, beyond the walls of Carthage, the Roman hordes stood waiting to annihilate the noblest city of ancient Africa. Within the city, all was madness—the houses were filled with the screams of women and the streets teemed with terrified men. The veil of the goddess Tanit, sacred to Carthage, had fallen to... Read more

A Measure of Mercy - Abridged

By: Lauraine Snelling

Narrated by: Renee Ertl

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: Yes

Beloved author Lauraine Snelling returns again to her popular Red River Valley setting.  Eighteen-year-old Astrid Bjorklund has been studying medicine under Dr. Elizabeth Bjorklund’s direction and dreams of joining her practice in Blessing. But when a missionary arrives and tells of the need for medical ministry in Africa, he seems to look... Read more

A Separate Country

By: Robert Hicks

Narrated by: Sherman Howard, Isabel Keating & Kevin T. Collins

Length: 17 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in New Orleans in the years after the Civil War, A Separate Country is based on the incredible life of John Bell Hood, arguably one of the most controversial generals of the Confederate Army--and one of its most tragic figures. Robert E. Lee promoted him to major general after the Battle of Antietam. But the Civil War would mark him forever.

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Riot

By: Walter Dean Myers

Narrated by: Various

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

During a long, hot July in 1863, the worst race riots the United States has ever seen erupt in New York City. Earlier that year, desperate for more Union soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln instituted a draft–a draft that would allow the wealthy to escape serving in the army by paying a $300 waiver, more than a year’s income for the recent... Read more

Catriona, with eBook

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Catriona is a stirring tale of love, danger, and political intrigue set amidst the stately grandeur of old Edinburgh. David Balfour is an orphaned young gentleman who has recently managed to claim his inheritance from a miserly (and murderous) uncle. Now he and his friends James Stewart and Alan Breck are implicated in a sensational killing, and... Read more

The Lost Symbol

By: Dan Brown

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 17 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • An intelligent, lightning-paced thriller set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., with surprises at every turn.

“Impossible to put down.... Another mind-blowing Robert Langdon story.” —The New York Times

Famed Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon answers an unexpected summons to... Read more

The Lost Symbol - Abridged

By: Dan Brown

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • An intelligent, lightning-paced thriller set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., with surprises at every turn.

“Impossible to put down.... Another mind-blowing Robert Langdon story.” —The New York Times

Famed Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon answers an unexpected summons to... Read more

Romeo y Julieta

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Shakespeare da vida a la historia de dos adolescentes, cuya incontenible pasión coloca al amor por encima de la muerte, en el marco dramático y absurdo del odio que se profesan dos familias: los Montesco y los Capuleto. La obra, que fascinó a lectores de todas las épocas, emociona profundamente en esta nueva versión. Read more

Los Miserables

By: Víctor Hugo

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Jean Valjean es un ex-presidiario. Cuando llega al pueblo de D., rumbo a su pueblo natal y presenta su pasaporte -en el que figura como ex-reo y ''hombre peligroso''- en el ayuntamiento, nadie se digna a acogerle y a darle de comer, salvo don Bienvenido, el párroco. Traicionando a su protector, Valjean le roba la cubertería de plata, pero le... Read more

Though Waters Roar - Abridged

By: Lynn Austin

Narrated by: Pam Turlow

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

"Thank goodness you're such a plain child.  You'll have to rely on your wits." So went the words of Grandma Bebe. And for all of my growing-up years, I scoffed at the beauty of my sister and what I saw as her meaningless existence. But my wits hadn’t served me well in this instance, for here I was, in jail. And while I could have seen it as... Read more

Lady Knight

By: Tamora Pierce

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The stunning conclusion to the New York Times bestselling series from the fantasy author who is a legend herself: TAMORA PIERCE.

Victory is not always what it seems.

Keladry of Mindelan has finally achieved her lifelong dream of becoming a knight—but it’s not quite what she imagined. In the midst of a brutal war, Kel has been assigned to... Read more

Day After Night

By: Anita Diamant

Narrated by: Dagmara Dominczyk

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The Salt Lake Tribune

Just as she gave voice to the silent women of the Hebrew Bible in The Red Tent, Anita Diamant creates a cast of breathtakingly vivid characters—young women who escaped to Israel from Nazi Europe—in this intensely dramatic novel.

Day After Night is based on the... Read more

Victory Square

By: Olen Steinhauer

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The revolutionary politics and chaotic history at the heart of Olen Steinhauer’s literary crime series set in Eastern Europe have made it one of today’s most acclaimed, garnering two Edgar Award nominations and numerous other awards. Upon reaching the tumultuous 1980s, the series comes full circle as one of the People’s Militia’s earliest cases... Read more

Her Deadly Mischief

By: Beverle Graves Myers

Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In Venice in 1742, Tito Amato is singing lead roles at the Teatro San Marco. On opening night, he has the entire audience entranced, except for one box with its scarlet curtains tightly drawn. Is this a lovers’ assignation or a meeting deep in political intrigue? Annoyed at being ignored, Tito aims the full force of his golden throat at the... Read more