Historical Fiction audiobooks

Гладиаторы

By: Alexander Nemirovsky

Narrated by: Stanislav Kobeshev

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Сборник рассказов "Гладиаторы" известного писателя и ученого-историка Александра Немировского, погружают слушателя в мир античной древности, где действуют сильные и мужественные люди, способные противостоять драматическим обстоятельствам, силой характера преодолеть неблагоприятную судьбу. Историческая точность удачно сочетается с авторской... Read more

Пуритане

By: Walter Scott

Narrated by: Vladimir Rybal'chenko

Length: 19 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Роман Вальтера Скотта «Пуритане» (1815) ярко и увлекательно повествует о знаменитом шотландском восстании 1679 г. за национальную независимость и религиозную свободу. На фоне бурных исторических событий изображена драматическая история молодых людей, полюбивших друг друга, но оказавшихся в разных лагерях. На их пути - бесчисленные опасности,... 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

Настанет день

By: Lion Feuchtwanger

Narrated by: Vyacheslav Zadvornykh

Length: 18 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Роман Лиона Фейхтвангера "Настанет день" (1942) является третьей частью его знаменитой трилогии об иудейско-римском историке Иосифе Флавии. Испытавший славу и бесчестие, творческие взлеты и падения, пережив гибель близких ему людей и разрушение Иерусалимского храма, престарелый Иосиф и в последние годы своей жизни остается верным себе. Но этот... 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

Иудейская война

By: Lion Feuchtwanger

Narrated by: Vladimir Rybal'chenko

Length: 17 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Первый роман из трилогии, посвященной античному историку Иосифу Флавию. С удивительной исторической точностью и глубоким драматизмом изображает Фейхтвангер перипетии восстания Иудеи против Рима, приведшего к разрушению Иерусалимского храма (70 г.). Главный герой романа, "священник первой чреды", перешедший на сторону римлян, Иосиф стремится... Read more

Великий стол

By: Dmitry Balashov

Narrated by: Yuriy Grigoriev

Length: 25 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Роман посвящен одному из сложнейших и труднейших периодов истории Древней Руси. В самом начале XIV века определилось противостояние между Тверью и Москвой в борьбе за ярлык на великий стол Владимирского княжения и тем самым за лидерство в собирании русских земель. Великодушный, по словам Карамзина, князь Михаил тверской и самолюбивый князь... Read more

Гроздья гнева

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Vladimir Levashov

Length: 22 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Это роман (1939) принес громкую славу писателю и стал неотъемлемым достоянием мировой литературы. Он охватывает кризисные 30-е годы XX века. Юго-восток США претерпевает катастрофу: засуха и песчаные бури разоряют фермеров, чьи земли уже давно заложены. И вот платить уже нечем, и всемогущий Банк просто сгоняет их с земли, выбрасывает из домов,... Read more

The Gendarme

By: Mark T. Mustian

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Author and attorney Mark T. Mustian has won rave reviews for his ambitious novel, The Gendarme. Plagued by failing memory, Emmett Conn dreams he was a gendarme in World War I and that his great love, Araxie, was separated from him after the war. With the lines between past and present blurring more every day, Emmett sets out to find the woman he... Read more

Behemoth

By: Scott Westerfeld

Narrated by: Alan Cumming

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest in the New York Times bestselling breakout steampunk series from Scott Westerfeld.

At the end of Leviathan, our heroes Alek and Deryn were aboard a mighty air ship heading toward Constantinople to deliver a secret package. But their secrets—Alek’s family is responsible for starting World War I, and Deryn is a girl passing as a guy... Read more

A Distant Dawn

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the death of their parents, twenty-four-year-old Sunniva Lyndall and her younger brother, Tracy, leave the comforts and safety of their Ohio Valley home to travel west to California, With excitement, determination, and the money they received from the sale of the family farm, they head for Missouri and the wagon train that will take... Read more

One Touch of Scandal

By: Liz Carlyle

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“Liz Carlyle weaves passion and intrigue with a master’s touch.”—Karen Robards With One Touch of Scandal, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Liz Carlyle arrives at Avon Books and launches a breathtaking new historical romance series centered around the Zeno Society, a  mysterious fraternity of dangerous—and dangerously attractive—men.... Read more

The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia

By: Mary Helen Stefaniak

Narrated by: Robynn Rodriguez

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrator Gladys Cailiff is eleven years old in 1938 when a new schoolteacher turns Threestep, Georgia, upside down. Miss Grace Spivey is a well-traveled young woman who believes in field trips, Arabian costumes, and reading aloud from her ten-volume set of The Thousand Nights and a Night. The real trouble begins when she decides to revive the... Read more

Dragon Seed

By: Pearl S. Buck

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the more political novels from the pen of Pearl Buck, Dragon Seed brings to light the tragedy of the Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during WWII. Centering her story around the fictional family of Ling Tan, Buck recreates the heart wrenching devastation that war inflicted on these gentle innocent people. Ling Tan and... Read more

The Ghosts of Ragged-Ass Gulch

By: Bill Pronzini

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Ravaged by time and abandoned by the people who once flocked there in search of golden nuggets, Ragged-Ass Gulch is a ghost town. What's left is a small, proud, and close pack of people who aren't looking for change. But change seems to be afoot as several mysterious fires plague the town. That's where the Nameless Detective comes in. Read more

Roman Games

By: Bruce Macbain

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Rome, September AD 96. When the body of Sextus Verpa, a notorious senatorial informer and libertine, is found stabbed to death in his bedroom, his slaves are suspected. Pliny, a very respectable young senator and lawyer, is ordered by the emperor Domitian to investigate. However, the Ludi Romani, “the Roman Games,” have just begun, and for the... Read more

Pavilion of Women

By: Pearl S. Buck

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after twenty-four years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife. The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China, is thrown into an uproar by her decision, but Madame... Read more

King of Kings

By: Harry Sidebottom

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Warrior of Rome is back.In AD 256, the specter of treachery hangs ominously over the Roman Empire. The sparks of Christian fervor have spread through the empire like wildfire, and the imperium is alive with the machinations of dangerous and powerful men. All the while, Sassanid forces press forward relentlessly along the eastern frontier.... Read more

To Seduce a Sinner

By: Elizabeth Hoyt

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The one thing he cannot reveal to the one woman he most desires is his deepest need.Jasper Renshaw, Viscount Vale, has a problem: he needs to marry and produce an heir to the title. All Jasper wants is to find a lady who will put up with him long enough to wed so he can retreat to his life of debauchery, a life that keeps the haunting memories... Read more

The Winter Thief

By: Jenny White

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

January 1888. Vera Arti carries The Communist Manifesto in Armenian through Istanbul’s streets, unaware of the men following her. When the police discover a shipload of guns and the Imperial Ottoman Bank is blown up, suspicion falls on a socialist commune Arti’s friends organized in the eastern mountains. Special Prosecutor Kamil Pasha is called... Read more

Queen Margot

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 17 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexandre Dumas brings an extraordinary period of history to life in this exciting period romance.It is the twilight of the reign of King Charles IX, and France is dominated by religious wars between Catholics and Protestants. King Charles' sister, Marguerite, daughter of staunch Catholics Henri II and Catherine de Medici, is set to marry the... Read more

The Fort

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Robin Bowerman

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“The most prolific and successful historical novelist in the world today.” —Wall Street Journal

“Readers who haven’t discovered Bernard Cornwell don’t know what they are missing.” —New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn

From the New York Times bestselling author of Agincourt, the Saxon Tales, and the beloved Richard Sharpe series, Bernard... Read more

Rival to the Queen

By: Carolly Erickson

Narrated by: Susan Lyons

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wife of Henry VIII comes a novel about the bitter rivalry between Queen Elizabeth I and her fascinating cousin, Lettice Knollys, for the love of one extraordinary man.

Powerful, dramatic and full of the rich history that has made Carolly Erickson's novels perennial bestsellers, this is the... Read more

Dreadnought

By: Cherie Priest

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercy's husband has died in a POW camp. On top of that, a telegram from the west coast declares that her estranged father is gravely injured, and he wishes to see her. Mercy sets out toward the Mississippi River.... Read more