Historical Fiction audiobooks

Heartfire

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person’s heart. She can follow the paths of each person’s future, and know each person’s most intimate secrets. From the moment of Alvin Maker’s birth, when the Unmaker first strove to kill him, she has protected him. Now they are married, and Peggy is a part of Alvin’s heart as well as his... Read more

Le Morte d’Arthur, Vol. 1

By: Sir Thomas Malory

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This monumental work made the Arthurian cycle available for the first time in English. Malory took a body of legends from Celtic folklore that had been adapted into French literature, gave them an English perspective, and produced a work which ever since has had tremendous influence upon literature.The story begins with King Uther Pendragon’s... Read more

Le Morte d’Arthur, Vol. 2

By: Sir Thomas Malory

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 17 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This monumental work made the Arthurian cycle available for the first time in English. Malory took a body of legends from Celtic folklore that had been adapted into French literature, gave them an English perspective, and produced a work which ever since has had tremendous influence upon literature.The story begins with King Uther Pendragon’s... Read more

Cranford

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Cranford is Elizabeth Gaskell’s gently comic picture of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s. It describes the small adventures in the lives of two middle-aged sisters in reduced circumstances, Matilda and Deborah Jenkyns, who do their best to maintain their standards of propriety, decency, and kindness. At the center... Read more

The Warden

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The Warden is the first of the six classic Chronicles of Barsetshire novels, Trollope's best-loved and most famous work.Anthony Trollope's classic novel centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity, whose charitable income far exceeds the purpose for which it was intended. On discovering this, young John Bold turns his... Read more

To the Last Man

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

To the Last Man is Zane Grey's archetypal tale of a bitter feud between two unforgiving factions: the ranchers led by Jean Isbel and, on the other side, Lee Jorth and his band of cattle rustlers. In the grip of a relentless code of loyalty to their own people, they fight the war of the Tonto Basin, desperately, doggedly, to the last man, neither... Read more

Fall of a Philanderer

By: Carola Dunn

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1924, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is off on a holiday by the sea with her step-daughter Belinda, Belinda's chum Deva, and Daisy's husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard. Daisy is anticipating a relaxing, nondramatic holiday—but Daisy doesn't have that kind of luck. It seems that a low-rent... Read more

We Look like Men of War

By: William R. Forstchen

Narrated by: Andrew L. Barnes

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“I was born a slave, as was my father before me, but I shall die a free man.” Thus begins the poignant story of Samuel Washburn, born a slave in 1850. A young master’s cruelty leads to an unforeseen confrontation, which results in Sam and his cousin fleeing the plantation for their lives. They run north to freedom, only to return south to fight... Read more

By the Grand Canal

By: William Rivière

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In the aftermath of the First World War, Hugh Thurne, a British diplomat involved in the peace negotiations, seeks solace in his rented palazzo in Venice rather than returning to his wife and the charade of his marriage in London. Although profoundly disturbed by the grim long-term prospects for peace, he has faith in the city’s power to raise... Read more

Ben-Hur

By: Lew Wallace

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 23 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most popular American novels of all time, Ben-Hur vividly reimagines the oppressive Roman occupation of ancient Palestine and the rise of Christianity. The saga of Judah Ben-Hur’s spiritual journey from slavery to vengeance to redemption is both a vivid historical adventure and a powerful story of one man’s religious awakening.Born... Read more

The Vanishing American

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered one of Zane Grey’s best novels, The Vanishing American was originally published in serialized form in the Ladies Home Journal in 1922. It reveals Grey’s empathy for the Native American and his deep concern for the future survival of that culture.It is the story of Nophaie, a young Navajo, who is picked up by a party of whites at the... Read more

The Hope Before Us

By: Elyse Larson

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Contending valiantly against the Nazi threat in war-torn Europe, two sisters unite to thwart a sinister plan, in this third book in Elyse Larson’s Women of Valor series.When Marge Emerson uncovers a diabolical Nazi plot she is secretly reassigned to a medical post in France. There she meets a conscientious objector whose outspoken belief in God... Read more

I Will Repay

By: Baroness Emma Orczy

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

It has been ten years since Juliette de Marny’s father asked her to swear revenge upon Déroulède for the death of her brother in a duel. At last she finds herself in Déroulède’s house with an easy opportunity to betray him to the citizens of France for conspiring against the people. But Juliette realizes, too late, that she is in love with... Read more

Addie

By: Lee Thompson

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The time is the mid-1880s, when Florida south of St. Augustine is a virtual wilderness and Daytona, Miami, and Tampa are little more than dots on the maritime charts. Addie is a “beanery queen” who ekes out a living from her canteen at the convergence of two primitive railroads. She is popular with the train crews but is disdained by most of the... Read more

Bloodlist

By: P. N. Elrod

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Flavoring the hard-boiled detective story with a taste of the supernatural, this is the first book in the highly entertaining Vampire Files series."I've always had a weak spot for strange ladies. One very beautiful girl had even warned me that she was—get this—a vampire. But did I listen? No."Before you know it, I'm being chased by an ugly thug... Read more

The Call of the Canyon

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the master of the western novel comes a tale full of romance and adventure. Carley Burch, a young orphaned woman, is living a life of leisure in her family's New York City home. When her fianc├®, Glenn Kilbourne, returns from France ill and broken after fighting in World War I, he heads west, drawn to the mountains and canyons of Arizona.... Read more

Rob Roy

By: Sir Walter Scott

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 18 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Rob Roy MacGregor is the romantic outlaw who comes alive in Sir Walter Scott's classic epic of the passions and struggles of the Scottish border lands.In rich, vivid prose, Rob Roy follows the adventures of Frank Osbaldistone, who falls out of favor with his father after failing to measure up to his expectations in the world of business. Sent to... Read more

Rose in Bloom

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone seems to think lovely, wealthy Rose Campbell should get married. Everyone, that is, except Rose.In this sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose returns to the Aunt Hill after two years of traveling around the world. Suddenly, she is surrounded by male admirers. But before she marries anyone, Rose is determined to establish herself as an... Read more

Paco’s Story

By: Larry Heinemann

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Vietcong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else is annihilated.When a medic finally rescues him almost two days later, Paco is waiting to die, flies and maggots covering his burnt, shattered body. He winds up back in the United States with his legs full of... Read more

The Diamond

By: Julie Baumgold

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This dazzling historical novel tells the story of the famous Régent diamond that links together the fates of some of the most powerful figures of European history. The exiled Napoleon and his biographer, the Count Las Cases, narrate the saga of the diamond as it is brought to the decadent courts of eighteenth-century France and passed through... Read more

Eifelheim

By: Michael Flynn

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 17 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and was never resettled. Tom, a contemporary historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend, Sharon, become interested. By all logic, the town should have survived, but it didn’t. Why? What was special about Eifelheim that it utterly disappeared more than six hundred years ago?In 1348, as the... Read more

The Small House at Allington

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 22 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

TheSmall House at Allingtonintroduces Trollope's most beloved heroine, the charming Lily Dale, to the Barsetshire scene. Lily is the niece of Squire Dale, an embittered old bachelor living in the main house on his property at Allington. He has loaned an adjacent small house rent-free to his widowed sister-in-law and her daughters, Lily and Bell.... Read more

The Scarlet Pimpernel

By: Emma Orczy

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“Who is this man, this Scarlet Pimpernel?” Each day this question grew more pressing to the rulers of the French Revolution. Only this man and his band of followers threatened their total power. Only this maddeningly elusive figure defied the vast network of fanatics, informers, and secret agents that the Revolution spread out to catch its... Read more

The Talisman

By: Walter Scott

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Encamped in the Holy Land, the crusaders are torn by the dissensions and jealousies of their leaders. The army’s impotence is accentuated by the illness of their chief, Richard I of England. Meanwhile, a poor but doughty Scottish crusader known as Sir Kenneth, on a mission far from the camp, encounters a Saracen Emir. After an inconclusive... Read more