Historical Fiction audiobooks

Grant Comes East - Abridged

By: Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Grant Comes East, the second book in the bestselling series by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, continues the story of a Confederate victory at Gettysburg.

Across 140 years, nearly all historians have agreed that after the defeat of the Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg, the taking of Washington, DC, would end the war. But was it... Read more

The Castle in the Forest - Abridged

By: Norman Mailer

Narrated by: Harris Yulin

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A MAJOR NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST MEN OF LETTERS

No career in modern American letters is at once so brilliant, varied, and controversial as that of Norman Mailer. In a span of more than six decades, Mailer has searched into subjects ranging from World War II to Ancient Egypt, from the march on the Pentagon to Marilyn Monroe,... Read more

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Jack Lemmon

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn follows Tom... Read more

Kiss - Abridged

By: Ed McBain

Narrated by: Len Cariou

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An 87th Precinct novel -- Certain that someone is trying to kill her, Emma Bowles turns to another killer for protection, and only a dedicated cop trapped in a defective legal system can save her. Read more

Il richiamo del corvo - Abridged

By: Wilbur Smith & Corban Addison

Narrated by: Massimo Bitossi

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dal maestro della narrativa d'avventura, un romanzo appassionante sul destino e la brutalità della natura umana. Un'eredità rubata. Un amore proibito. Una sete di vendetta così bruciante che potrebbe distruggere ogni cosa. Figlio di un influente proprietario terriero della Virginia, Mungo St John ha sempre dato per scontati la ricchezza e... Read more

Trilby - Abridged

By: Gerald du Maurier

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Full of the author's joie de vivre, this tale revels in the artistic life of 19th Century Paris. Three friends, perfect companions for each other, try to make their way as painters in the Bohemian climate of the left bank of the Seine, but then Little Billee falls in love. The object of his affections is Trilby, a gamine figure of the streets... Read more

The Devil's Queen - Abridged

By: Jeanne Kalogridis

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Catherine de Medici is one of the most maligned monarchs in history: blamed for the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in which hundreds of innocents died. What motivated this Renaissance woman who was born of Florence's most powerful family, and one day came to rule France?

In her latest historical fiction bestseller, Jeanne Kalogridis tells the... Read more

The October Horse - Abridged

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With her renowned storytelling gifts in full force, Colleen McCullough delivers a breathtaking novel that proves once again that she is the top historical novelist of our time.

Grand in scope and vivid in detail, McCullough’s gripping narrative thrusts readers headlong into the complex and fascinating world of Rome in the tumultuous last days of... Read more

Mischief - Abridged

By: Ed McBain

Narrated by: Len Cariou

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this 87th Precinct thriller, Detective Steve Carella must track down a killer who's systematically rubbing out all the city's graffiti artists, leaving each victim mischievously splashed with paint and blood.Foul play takes another form when an old nemesis, the Dead Man, taunts Carella and the eight-seven with riddling clues for solving a... Read more

Sails on the Horizon - Abridged

By: Jay Worrall

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

SAILS ON THE HORIZON
Dientes de Diablo, 1797

With his first historical high-seas adventure chronicling the exploits of Naval Commander Charles Edgemont, Jay Worrall sets sail in the rousing tradition of C.S. Forester and Patrick O’Brian.
The year is 1797. Napoleon Buonaparte is racking up impressive wins in the field against the enemies of... Read more

Schwert und Krone - Meister der Täuschung (Gekürzte Lesung) - Abridged

By: Sabine Ebert

Narrated by: Gabriele Blum

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dezember 1137: Kaiser Lothar ist tot. Auf dem Rückzug aus Italien durch Krankheit dahingerafft. Reihe um Reihe der edelsten seiner Ritter kniet nieder, mit Entsetzen, Trauer und Verbitterung auf den Gesichtern. Besonders eine Frage drängt sich in ihre Gedanken: Wer wird Lothars Nachfolger? Sofort entbrennt ein erbitterter Kampf um den Thron, in... Read more

Los Últimos Días De Pompeya - Abridged

By: Edward Bulwer Lytton

Narrated by: Carlos Zambrano

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Aunque el mensaje que Bulwer-Lytton trata de transmitir en su novela, de que la erupcion que destruyo a Pompeya en los primeros anos de nuestra era, lo merecian por tratarse de una sociedad corrupta, puede ser discutible, nadie duda de lo emocionante de este romance historico. Read more

Son of a Wanted Man - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

AN AUDIO DRAMATIZATION

An outlaw's legacy...

In a remote corner of Utah lies the secret outlaw kingdom of Ben Curry. For fifteen years Curry has ruled supreme, as his men have pulled jobs from Canada to Mexico. But the king is getting old... he wants to turn his legacy over to someone younger, tougher. Mike Bastian is Ben's adopted son, a... Read more

The Virtues of War - Abridged

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

I have always been a soldier. I have known no other life. So begins Alexander’s extraordinary confession on the eve of his greatest crisis of leadership. By turns heroic and calculating, compassionate and utterly merciless, Alexander recounts with a warrior’s unflinching eye for detail the blood, the terror, and the tactics of his greatest... Read more

Дни Турбиных (радиопостановка) - Abridged

By: Михаил Булгаков

Narrated by: В. Расцветаев & В. Петров

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Дни Турбиных - радиопостановка МХАТ СССР им. М.Горького по одноименному роману. Исполнители: В. Расцветаев, В. Петров, В. Калинина, В. Давыдов, М. Зимин, Ю. Пузырев, С. Сафонов, А. Борзунов, М. Медведев. Read more

The Russian Cage [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Charlaine Harris

Narrated by: Colleen Delany, Dani Stoller, Robbie Gay, Steph...

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Charlaine Harris is at her best in this alternate history of the United States where magic is an acknowledged but despised power in this third installment of the Gunnie Rose series.
Picking up right where A Longer Fall left off, this thrilling third installment follows Lizbeth Rose as she takes... Read more

To the Last Man - Abridged

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Philip Bosco

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power.

Spring 1916: the horror of a stalemate... Read more

What Price Love? - Abridged

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Stephanie Laurens's newest novel, a passionate man and
a daring woman confront the ultimate questionWhat Price Love? Dillon Caxton, protégé of Demon Cynster, is now a man of sterling reputation, but it wasn't always so. Now impeccably honest, he is the Keeper of the Register of all racing horses in England. His standing and aloofness makes... Read more

Lilah - Abridged

By: Marek Halter

Narrated by: Ellen Reilly

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set in the magnificent culture of the Middle East more than four thousand years ago, Lilah is a rich and emotionally resonant story of faith, love, and courage.Living in exile, Lilah is in love with Antinoes, a Persian warrior. They have known each other since they were children, and Antinoes dearly wants to make Lilah his wife. Yet Lilah does... Read more

Zipporah, Wife of Moses - Abridged

By: Marek Halter

Narrated by: Ellen Reilly

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the internationally bestselling author of Sarah comes the riveting story of the remarkable woman who walked beside Moses. 

Although she is a Cushite by birth—one of the people of the lands to the south—Zipporah grew up as the beloved daughter of Jethro, high priest and sage of the Midianites. But the color of Zipporah’s skin sets her apart,... Read more

Sunset and Sawdust - Abridged

By: Joe R. Lansdale

Narrated by: Joe R. Lansdale

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He has been called “hilarious . . . refreshing . . . a terrifically gifted storyteller with a sharp country-boy wit” (Washington Post Book World), and praised for his “folklorist’s eye for telling detail and [his] front-porch raconteur’s sense of pace” (New York Times Book Review). Now, Joe R. Landsdale gives us a fast-moving, electrifying new... Read more

Victorine - Abridged

By: Catherine Texier

Narrated by: Jurian Hughes

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In her memoir, Breakup, Catherine Texier tells how her husband left her for another woman. In Victorine, Texier takes the memory of Victorine, her maternal great-grandmother, and transforms it, so that Victorine, in the throes of a grand passion, leaves her husband and children for another man. Naturally, Victorine's motives are soulful, and yet... Read more

Jane Eyre - Abridged

By: Rachel Joyce & Charlotte Brontë

Narrated by: Amanda Hale, Full Cast & Tom Burke

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Amanda Hale and Tom Burke star in a brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, adapted by Rachel Joyce.

Orphan Jane learns at an early age that self-control is the surest means of retaining self-respect in adversity. It is a lesson that serves her well in the years ahead as she endures the misery of... Read more

The Birth of Venus - Abridged

By: Sarah Dunant

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities.

But their... Read more