Historical Fiction audiobooks

Ponniyin Selvan - 2 Suzhar Kaatru பொன்னியின் செல்வன் - 2 சுழற்காற்று

By: Kalki

Narrated by: Sri Srinivasa

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

பொன்னியின் செல்வன் - பாகம் 2. சுழற் காற்று , First ever digitized album of Ponniyin Selvan released in 2010 worldwide, narrated by Sri Srinivasa for all the characters in the novel - tamilaudiobooks.comஅமரர் கல்கியின் உன்னதமானதொரு  காவியம் ; சரித்திரப் படைப்பு  Read more

Orphan of Destiny

By: Michael P. Spradlin

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

After barely escaping Sir Hugh’s clutches once again, Tristan and his companions have finally reached the shores of England with the Holy Grail. But even as their quest nears its completion, treachery and destruction have beaten them home. Tristan’s beloved abbey has been destroyed, and Robard’s home in Sherwood Forest has fallen to poverty... Read more

Candide

By: Voltaire

Narrated by: Jack Davenport

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Candide, published simultaneously in five European capitals in 1759, became an instant bestseller and is now regarded as one of the key texts of the Enlightenment.This is a witty allegory of a young man whose optimism gives way to disillusionment after a series of terrible misfortunes.Voltaire’s preoccupations with evil and with various kinds of... Read more

The House of the Deer

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Nick McArdle

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

At short notice Gerald Burleigh Brown is asked to take a deer-stalking holiday in place of his brother-in-law. The old hunting lodge where Gerald stays is miles from the nearest village and surrounded by the forest with its high rocky hills. Apart from getting to know the other people in the house party, Gerald gradually begins to understand and... Read more

A Coward

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Penned in 1899 by Edith Wharton, this short story features the proper Mrs. Carstyle, her husband Mr. Carstyle, and their daughter Irene who are all are taken with their guest and an eligible bachelor named Vibart. Narrator John Chancer is a film and television actor with professional readings of many audiobooks to his credit. Read more

Devil's Dream

By: Madison Smartt Bell

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A contributor to Harper's, the New York Times Book Review, and many other publications, Madison Smartt Bell has also been a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Devil's Dream is a rich, evocative work of historical fiction profiling the infamous Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. "Rich descriptions of battles... Read more

Dracula in Love

By: Karen Essex

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Karen Essex is an internationally best-selling author who has also published award-winning articles in major publications such as L.A. Weekly and Vogue. With Dracula in Love, Essex offers a lushly written retelling of one of literature's classic gothic novels. In the pages of her journal, Mina Murray confesses the erotic devilment and nocturnal... Read more

Amandine

By: Marlena de Blasi

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Marlena de Blasi, best-selling memoirist of A Thousand Days in Venice, makes her remarkable fiction debut with this poignant tale. Deemed an illegitimate child by her royal Polish family, Amandine is abandoned as a baby at a French convent. As she grows, Amandine struggles to accept her orphaned state. She longs to put together the missing... Read more

Buster Midnight's Cafe

By: Sandra Dallas

Narrated by: Cynthia Darlow

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Sandra Dallas spins a moving, memorable yarn that transports listeners from rural Montana to 1940s Hollywood. Buster Midnight's Cafe is a compelling story of longtime friends, a shared past, and an act of violence that shatters innocence forever. "Entertaining . memorable characters bring Prohibition-era... Read more

The Mischief of the Mistletoe

By: Lauren Willig

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

'Tis the season to get Pink! Lauren Willig's beloved Pink Carnation series gets into the holiday spirit with this irresistible Regency Christmas caper.

Arabella Dempsey's dear friend Jane Austen warned her against teaching. But Miss Climpson's Select Seminary for Young Ladies seems the perfect place for Arabella to claim her independence while... Read more

Investigating Mr Thomas

By: Rob Gittins

Narrated by: Various

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation on the writer and poet Dylan Thomas. Based on a true story, Rob Gittins's play draws on archive material. When 'Time' magazine printed a warts-and-all article about Dylan Thomas in 1953, the poet sued them for libel. Needing to gather more evidence, the magazine hired a private detective to shadow Thomas in... Read more

To Beguile a Beast

By: Elizabeth Hoyt

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Can a wounded beast trust a beauty with a past to tame his most secret desires?Reclusive Sir Alistair Munroe has hidden in his castle ever since returning from the Colonies, scarred inside and out. But when a mysterious beauty arrives at his door, the passions he's kept suppressed for years begin to awaken.Running from past mistakes has taken... Read more

Ponniyin Selvan - 1 - Pudhu Vellam பொன்னியின் செல்வன் - 1 - புது வெள்ளம்

By: Kalki

Narrated by: Sri Srinivasa

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

அமரர் கல்கியின்பொன்னியின் செல்வன் - பாகம் 1. புது வெள்ளம் , First ever digitized album of Ponniyin Selvan released in 2010 worldwide, narrated by Sri Srinivasa for all the characters in the novel - tamilaudiobooks.comஅமரர் கல்கியின் உன்னதமானதொரு  காவியம் ; சரித்திரப் படைப்பு  Read more

The Many-Colored Land

By: Julian May

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 16 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a spellbinding tale woven of equal parts epic and myth—with a liberal dash of hard science fiction.When a one-way time tunnel to Earth’s distant past, specifically six million BC, was discovered by folks on the Galactic Milieu, every misfit for light-years around hurried to pass through it. Each sought his own brand of happiness. But... Read more

Undaunted Spirit

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Free-spirited journalist Independence McClaren follows her heart to a Colorado silver-town -- and a test of her fierce commitment to the truth. Mindy's birth name is Independence McClaren -- a fitting match for her tenacity and determination. Leaving behind a secure but colorless future in the east, the fiery young woman heads west to Coarse... Read more

The Year of Living Scandalously

By: Julia London

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1792, the village of Hadley Green executed a man for stealing the Countess of Ashwood's historic jewels. Fifteen years later, questions still linger. Was it a crime of greed—or of passion? When Declan O'Connor, Earl of Donnelly, arrives at Hadley Green to meet with Lily Boudine, the new countess of Ashwood, he knows instantly that the lovely... Read more

Where Tomorrow Waits

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Penny Sayres' red hair, freckle-splashed skin, and fierce independence drew the attention of some of the region's most eligible bachelors. One by one, they've been disappointed -- because romance and marriage are the last things on Penny's mind! Since her childhood, she has sensed an unknown destiny beckoning from the horizon. When Penny's... Read more

Revolution

By: Jennifer Donnelly

Narrated by: Emily Janice Card & Emma Bering

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying her. And she’s about to be expelled from Brooklyn Heights’ most prestigious private school when her father intervenes. Now Andi must... Read more

The Way of All Flesh

By: Samuel Butler

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them."

With The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler threw a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a... Read more

Младший сын

By: Dmitry Balashov

Narrated by: Stanislav Sytnik

Length: 31 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Роман описывает события русской истории на одном из её ключевых этапов - со смерти Александра Невского (1263г.) до смерти последнего из его сыновей Андрея Городецкого (1304г.), - когда решался вопрос о её дальнейшей судьбе. Под пером писателя встают перипетии борьбы за власть сыновей Александра Невского, сложные и тягостные отношения Руси с... Read more

Батый

By: Vasiliy Yan

Narrated by: Sergey Kazakov

Length: 17 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Роман о Батые остается одним из самых популярных исторических романов в нашей литературе. Живое и яркое описание событий первой трети тринадцатого века, которые разворачиваются на просторах азиатских степей и в глуши русских лесов, их историческая достоверность невольно захватывают читателя. Read more

Бремя Власти

By: Dmitry Balashov

Narrated by: Nikolay Trifilov

Length: 18 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Время действия романа- правление Ивана Первого (Калиты) (1325-1340), великого князя, заложившего основы будущего могущества московского царства. Балашову удается убедительно показать, что история не только делается людьми, но сама состоит из этих людей, из раскрытия заложенных в них возможностей. Мы видим, как воля к жизни, реализуясь во всем... Read more

Сыновья

By: Lion Feuchtwanger

Narrated by: Stanislav Sytnik

Length: 23 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Исторический роман Лиона Фейхтвангера (1884 – 1958) «Сыновья» является вторым томом из трех, посвященных личности знаменитого античного историка Иосифа Флавия, еврея по рождению, автору Иудейской войны, а также Иудейских древностей. Повествование относится к эпохе Тита, сына основателя династии Флавиев Веспасиана. Через собственную судьбу Иосиф,... Read more

Слоны Ганнибала

By: Alexander Nemirovsky

Narrated by: Stanislav Sytnik

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Захватывающий исторический роман «Слоны Ганнибала» создан известным отечественным историком Александром Иосифовичем Немировским. Книга посвящена драматическому эпизоду Пунических войн между Римом и Карфагеном – походу карфагенского полководца Ганнибала на Италию. Отточенный литературный стиль, напряженный сюжет, основанный на доскональном знании... Read more