History audiobooks

杨成武故事

By: 董保存

Narrated by: 沈卿之，三关，壹念舞兮，徐百万

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：讲述一代传奇杨成武的故事 Read more

Never

By: Rick Astley

Narrated by: Rick Astley

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author, Rick Astley

'I hadn’t been very comfortable with fame, but I didn’t know what to do with myself after I was famous. On the surface, I was just hugely relieved to be shot of the whole thing. I felt like I’d been let off the hook . . . But underneath that, I was pretty miserable.'

When 'Never Gonna Give You Up’ propelled Rick... Read more

Prose & Cons

By: Gyles Brandreth

Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

As fans of Just a Minute know, the key to the game is knowing your way around the English language: how it works, how it’s evolved, and how words connect, often in surprising ways. When it comes to the English language (and Just a Minute), Gyles Brandreth has seen it all – and now he’s ready to put you through your... Read more

The Classic of Filial Piety

By: Ivan Chen (translator)

Narrated by: Chirag Patel

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

For over two thousand years, this books has been the foundation of Chinese family life.

Based on a series of conversations with Confucius, and supplemented by a series of story examples by an Emperor in the 11th Century, it is essential to understanding the nature and order of Chinese society. It speaks of how one should behave towards a senior... Read more

The Sayings of Lao-Tzu

By: Lao Tzu & Lionel Giles (translator)

Narrated by: Chirag Patel

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A prose translation of the Tao that focuses on bringing out the subtlety and depth of the classic Way.
Translations of the famous Way and Virtue (Dao De Jing/Tao Te Ching) focus on the poetics and depth of the original. In contrast, Giles’ translation focuses on telling stories with the text, drawing out the nuances in a way that is more familiar... Read more

The Beating Heart

By: Robin Choudhury

Narrated by: John Telfer

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Beating Heart: The Art and Science of Our Most Vital Organ by Robin Choudhury, read by John Telfer.

In The Beating Heart, Robin Choudhury explores how the heart has been represented over time and across cultures. He investigates the interplay between the heart depictions of successive eras and the prevailing cultural... Read more

遗失的神灵

By: 马兆锋

Narrated by: 施班瑜，早安，CC欧尼

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：聆听远古帝国的心跳，揭开难以获知的秘密，解 读湮灭已久的文明。说起人类古代文明，除了我们熟悉的古埃及、古 巴比伦、古希腊等文明外，还有许多可与这些古代文 明相 媲美的其他文明，它们是美洲印第安人的阿兹特克文 明、玛雅文明、印加文明，以及赫梯文明、迦太基文 明、 马其顿文明、古印度文明等。它们如今都湮没在了历 史的尘埃中，它们的秘密，世人无法洞悉。《遗失的神灵——失落的铁血帝国(精)/世界文 明史话》由马兆锋编著，内容以近几年的考古发 现为基础，结合的历史研究，为读者揭开了这些 文明的兴衰史，与读 者一起寻找这些秘密背后的真相。书中还附有百余幅精美的图片，有助于读者具体 、形象地观照这些古文明的原貌。《遗失的神灵—— 失落的铁血帝国(精)/世界文明史话》是了解以上文 明的 读物。 Read more

心若幽兰，品如秀竹：杨绛传

By: 朱致翔

Narrated by: 菲儿

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：希望本书可以还原一个真实的杨绛，不仅还原她的生活、她的爱情、她的工作和她的理想，更要还原他的言行举止背后所蕴含的人生哲学。作者查阅了大量的文献资料，修正了某些现有资料上的纰漏，并在传统的传记创作手法中穿插哲理性的感悟，结合传记和随笔的共性，使内容更加丰富多彩。与现有的杨绛传记相比，本书增加了杨绛先生百岁后的生活内容，是一部关于她的更为完整的传记。 Read more

烟雨孤鸿，民国才子的情与往事

By: 朱丹红

Narrated by: 李溪萌

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：时有男子，惊艳亮相于民国。他们站在时代交替的门槛上，挥别旧历史，创造新文明。在那个盛产传奇爱情的时光区间里，他们带着独有的风情、风骨与风流，书写了滚滚红尘里的浪漫篇章。 Read more

寻梦大唐

By: 马兆锋

Narrated by: 施班瑜，子毅，水夙

Length: 20 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：汉帝国是中国历史上唯一的一个全部由华夏文明自身孕育出来的稳定的强盛王朝，这个帝国在最深的层面上影响了此后中国两千年的全部历史。汉帝国代表了自春秋战国以来古典时代华夏文明的最高峰，其纯粹而高贵的民族基因、优秀而典雅的文明形态、睿智而进取的国民素养、勇武而坚定的国家精神，无不值得今日的我们去追思。 Read more

Presidenta

By: Jorge Zepeda Patterson

Narrated by: Enrique Cardenas

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

La victoria de una mujer en un país de hombres, Presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Por primera vez en 200 años México eligió a una mujer como presidenta. El reconocido periodista y escritor, Jorge Zepeda Patterson, construye la narración más completa y documentada sobre la vida personal y política de Claudia Sheinbaum: el activismo de sus padres... Read more

Una peli por semana

By: Jesús Iglesias

Narrated by: Jesús Iglesias

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Centenares de anécdotas alucinantes sobre el mundo del cine y sus protagonistas, y datos que no encontrarás en Wikipedia Una peli por semana es un libro de introducción al cine que te propone 52 filmes para ver y analizar a lo largo de un año. Una selección realizada por Jesús Iglesias, autor de la popular cuenta de crítica cinematográfica La... Read more

Reports From The First World War

By: Lord Dunsany

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes the collections Nowadays, Tales of War, & Unhappy Far-Off Things
The great fantasy writer Lord Dunsany wrote very little in the way of fantasy after the onset of the First World War. This was partly because he was busy, having volunteered in 1915 and becoming a Captain in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in Derry. However, the... Read more

辛弃疾传

By: 郭瑞祥

Narrated by: 花爷

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：辛弃疾是中国历史上巅峰词人之一，与苏轼并称“苏辛”。其词传唱千年，民间妇孺能诵，当今中学课本中也是必修教材。然而，填词不是他的志向，他以气节自负，以功业自许，最仰慕的人是谢安、孙权，他毕生的抱负是抗击金军，收复中原。事实上，他也确曾金戈铁马，喋血军营。他成长于金国，却是大宋的封疆大吏；他父亲是虏官，他却要做“西北洗胡沙”的霍去病。“少年横槊，气凭陵，酒圣诗豪余事”，是他理想的生活状态；“了却君王天下事，嬴得生前身后名”是他追求的人生高度。虽然政绩卓然，然而其行事风格却不能见容于君臣同僚。南渡归宋后，竟有一半时间赋闲归耕。 Read more

一别，如果永不相见：张爱玲传

By: 朱丹红

Narrated by: 赵倩

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：张爱玲，似一个华贵迤逦的民国梦境。她有着显赫的家世，在镀金的背景下开始传奇人生。生命辗转，她见识了繁华，也体会了繁华逝去后的颓唐。她是傲然于世的海上花，才华横溢，惊艳文坛，却在遇见爱人时低到了尘埃里，卑微地绽放着幸福之花。百转千回的人生路上，她在世俗中精致地活着、爱着、痛着、执着着、悲伤着……思想与磨难碰撞出花火，所有情绪在笔下生发出闪光的灵魂。她将心绪泼墨于纸上，晕染开来，成了一段段爱恨交织的人生故事。 Read more

The Blood Telegram

By: Gary J. Bass

Narrated by: Dennis Heath

Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Book Award
Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize for Best Foreign Affairs Book
Winner of the Asia Society's Bernard Schwartz Book Award
Winner of the Cundill Prize for Historical Literature
Winner of the Society for Historians of American... Read more

The Farthest Valley

By: Joseph Wheelan

Narrated by: Jeff Harding

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Farthest Valley: Escaping the Chinese Trap at the Chosin Reservoir by Joseph Wheelan, read by Jeff Harding.


A history of the legendary extraction of the Fifth and Seventh Marines from a Chinese trap, told for the first time using Chinese sources.

Knee-deep in snow, and under a leaden sky, American Marines thousands of miles... Read more

Arthashastra, or, The Playbook of Material Gain

By: Chanakya

Narrated by: Chirag Patel

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Truly radical "Machiavellianism", in the popular sense of that word, is classically expressed in Indian literature in the Arthashastra of Kautilya (written long before the birth of Christ, ostensibly in the time of Chandragupta): compared to it, Machiavelli's The Prince is harmless.
— Max Weber, Politics as a Vocation (1919)
Chanakya's treatise,... Read more

Futhark

By: Edred Thorsson

Narrated by: Brian Arens

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Runes are the ancient Norse alphabet used for communication, divination, and magical work. In Futhark, American runologist Edred Thorsson introduces listeners to the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark, their definitions, and mystic properties. The runic system of magic and mysticism is one of the most powerful forms of metaphysical thought available... Read more

170 Chinese Poems

By: Arthur Waley

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A selection of the very best of Chinese poetry over the course of a thousand years, from 100 years before Christ was born up of the middle ages. Arthur Waley's translations of Chinese poetry are still the benchmark by which such translations are held, nearly two hundred years after he introduced the west to the wonder of classical Chinese... Read more

Lieh Tzu

By: Lieh Tzu & Lionel Giles

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the four central works in Daoism. The Lie-Tzu, or Liezi, was originally thought to have been composed in the same period as the Dao and Zhuang Zi, around the 5th century BCE. However, it is now believed to have been compiled nearly a thousand years later, around 400 CE.
Lionel Giles, in fact, was one of the first to call out the Lieh Tzu’s... Read more

The Cloud Of Unknowing

By: Evelyn Underhill (editor) & Chirag Patel (editor)

Narrated by: Chirag Patel

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the middle ages, Christianity shared much with Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies. Read on to learn how Christian mystics came to the same conclusions as those from very different faiths. This edition has been adapted from the 1923 version into modern English to make the ideas more accessible to today's reader, the Cloud of Unknowing... Read more

The Art Of War

By: Lionel Giles & Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

There are many versions of this work in English, and it is included as a useful reflection once one has pondered Daoism’s key texts. The title is properly ‘'Sun Tzu's Military Method'. It was written at the time of the Dao and Zhuang Zi, several centuries before the Lieh Tzu. For fifteen hundred years, it was part of China’s canonical strategic... Read more

Spurgeon the Pastor

By: Geoffrey Chang

Narrated by: Graham Geisler

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

How would you get more than 5,000 people to show up at your church?
 
Almost every pastor feels the pressure to get people in the doors. More people means more success, more stability, and more godly influence, right? Often, in their zeal for fruit and growth, pastors and church leaders adopt worldly mechanisms for church growth that end up... Read more