Historical Fiction audiobooks

Edith Wharton: Stories

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Edith Wharton was most well known for her novels that illuminated privileged life in the 19th century, such as The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth. In addition to her award-winning novels, she also wrote poetry and short stories.Collected here are some of her best works of short fiction,... Read more

Tirano Banderas - Abridged

By: Ramon del Valle-Inclán

Narrated by: Daniel Quintero

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Valle-Inclan decia en una carta que estaba escribiendo "una novela americana de caudillaje y avaricia gachupinesca...en una prosa expresiva y poco academica". Esa obra fue Tirano Banderas donde con una prosa brillante muestra las pequeneces de los dictadores de nuestra America. El pintoresco pero cruel Santos Banderas es un personaje... Read more

A Fine Balance

By: Rohinton Mistry

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 24 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited... Read more

The Shipping News - Abridged

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Robert Joy

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family.

Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday... Read more

The Truelove - Abridged

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The 15th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin series.

This splendid installment in Patrick O'Brian's widely acclaimed series of Aubrey/Maturin novels is in equal parts mystery, adventure, and psychological drama. A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the Friendly Isles (Tonga) at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey, R.N., is... Read more

Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind

By: Ann B. Ross

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Julia, a recently bereaved and newly wealthy widow, is only slightly bemused when one Hazel Marie Puckett appears at her door with a youngster in tow and unceremoniously announces that the child is the bastard son of Miss Julia's late husband. Suddenly, this longtime church member and pillar of her small Southern community finds herself in... Read more

The Good German - Abridged

By: Joseph Kanon

Narrated by: Stanley Tucci

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set in Berlin just after the end of World War II, a brilliant thriller that was also made into a film starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett.

With World War II finally ending, Jake Geismar, former Berlin correspondent for CBS, has wrangled one of the coveted press slots for the Potsdam Conference. His assignment: a series of articles on the... Read more

Swift As Desire - Abridged

By: Laura Esquivel

Narrated by: Elizabeth Pena

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A magical, sensuous new love story from the author of the international bestseller Like Water for Chocolate.

Instead of entering the world crying like other babies, Jublio was born with a smile on his face. He had a gift for hearing what was in people's hearts, for listening to sand dunes sind and insects whisper. Even as a young boy, acting as... Read more

Der 21. Juli (ungekürzt)

By: Christian von Ditfurth

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Am 20. Juli 1944 sprengen die Verschwörer um Graf Stauffenberg den "Führer" in die Luft. Doch dem Jubel über Hitlers Tod folgt gleich die Ernüchterung: Die Attentäter haben nicht genug Rückhalt in der Bevölkerung und bei der Wehrmacht. Ihre verzweifelte Lage zwingt sie zu einem Bündnis mit Heinrich Himmler und der SS. Im letzten Augenblick... Read more

Desolation Island

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Jack's prize money has set the household accounts aright, but if he continues frittering it on naive extravagances, it will be gone in a fortnight. Fortunately he gets a commission aboard the Leopard, bound for Australia to rescue the hated and captive Captain Bligh. Read more

Rise to Rebellion - Abridged

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Victor Garber

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jeff Shaara dazzled readers with his bestselling novels Gods and Generals, The Last Full Measure, and Gone for Soldiers. Now the acclaimed author who illuminated the Civil War and the Mexican-American War brilliantly brings to life the American Revolution, creating a superb saga of the men who helped to forge the destiny of a nation.

In ... Read more

The Music of the Spheres - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Redfern

Narrated by: Tim Curry

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the London of 1795, intrigue and death walk the dark streets. England is at war with its neighbor and nemesis, France, and espionage is rampant. It is the job of Jonathan Absey at the Home Office to catch these spies, but his mind is elsewhere, his dreams haunted by the still unsolved murder of his fifteen-year-old daughter on these same... Read more

Mojave Crossing: The Sacketts

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: David Strathairn

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis L’Amour takes William Tell Sackett on a treacherous passage from the Arizona goldfields to the booming town of Los Angeles.

Tell Sackett was no ladies’ man, but he could spot trouble easily enough. And Dorinda Robiseau was the kind of trouble he wanted to avoid at any time—even more so when he had thirty pounds of gold in his saddlebags... Read more

May There Be a Road - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Spirited American stories gathered together for the first time

From the coasts of Brazil to the borders of Tibet to the very heartland of America, May There Be a Road gathers ten previously uncollected stories that capture the magnificent scope and sense of epic adventure that epitomize Louis L'Amour classic fiction.

In these vivid settings... Read more

Slightly Shady - Abridged

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Amanda Quick's bestselling trademark is a combination of suspense and passion in historical tales alight with sparkling wit and brimming with dangerous intrigue. Now she serves up the most tantalizing novel of her career as an enterprising woman allies herself with a mysterious spy, only to be caught in a seething brew of treachery — and... Read more

Springwater Wedding - Abridged

By: Linda Lael Miller

Narrated by: Jenna Stern

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once a frontier stagecoach stop, tiny Springwater has grown and changed and entered the twenty-first century. Cattle rustlers may still be stirring up trouble, but now they're high-tech operators in a modern world. Where stagecoaches once rolled along muddy roads, the Internet is now the newest highway in town. But heartbreak is still... Read more

Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Bernard Cornwell takes us back four thousand years, to a vibrant world of ritual and sacrifice that is at once timeless and wholly original. This historical novel unlocks the mystery of Britain's most haunting and puzzling structure, and tells a tale of three brothers—fierce rivals—who are uneasily united in their quest to... Read more

Sackett: The Sacketts

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: David Strathairn

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

William Tell Sackett had followed a different path from his younger brothers, but his name, like theirs, was spoken with respect and just a little fear.  Where Orrin had brought law and order from New Mexico to the plains of Montana, backed up by the gunfighting talents of his brother Tye, Tell Sackett's destiny drew him to Texas after he had to... Read more

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Narrated by: Richard Burton

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Burton and Ralph Richardson join together in this unqiue musical production of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The superb delivery of both these actors is augmented by an original soundtrack composed by David Moore. Read more

Around the World in 80 Days

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days -- and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompanied by his hot-blooded French manservant,... Read more

F. Scott Fitzgerald Stories

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Kimberly Schraf

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Bernice Bobs Her Hair" and "The Jelly-Bean:" Two of Fitzgerald's finest stories of the Jazz Age. The first tells of a young woman who doesn't fit in her cousin's social life, and the second of love and social class. Read more

Crocodile on the Sandbank

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Susan O’Malley

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Egyptologist Amelia Peabody in the first mystery in the Victorian-era, New York Times-bestselling series."If Indiana Jones were female, a wife, and a mother who lived in Victorian times, he would be Amelia Peabody Emerson."—Publishers WeeklyAmelia Peabody, that indomitable product of the Victorian age, embarks on her first Egyptian... Read more

Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival on the island, until he meets Friday, a tribesman whom he saves from being sacrificed. Initially,... Read more

La Madre - Abridged

By: Maxim Gorky

Narrated by: Laura García

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

Una ventana a ideas revolucionarias. Aunque La Madre de Gorky tiene quiza un exceso de retorica, es sin embargo una ventana a las ideas revolucionarias, en especial en el conmovedor retrato de la madre que decide tomar los rumbos de su hijo, cuando este es encarcelado por sus ideas. Pero mas importante que el argumento, es la excelente serie de... Read more