Historical Fiction audiobooks

Western Stories: Geschichten aus dem Wilden Westen - Die Box - Abridged

By: Bret Harte

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die schönsten und packendsten Wildwest-Stories von Bret Harte. Einsame Reiter, die zu Helden werden. Männer, die den ewigen Kampf zwischen Gut und Böse kämpfen. Frauen, die nur scheinbar das "schwache Geschlecht" sind... Mit dabei: Der Glücksbringer von Roaring Camp, Die Ausgestoßenen von Poker Flat, Miggles, Das Idyll von Red Gulch, Ein Fremder... Read more

Midsummer Magic - Abridged

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dear Listener:Midsummer Magic, the first novel in the Magic Trilogy, was published at the end of 1987.Philip Hawksbury, the Earl of Rothermere, obeying his father's dying wish, hies himself to Scotland to offer for one of the daughters of Alexander Kilbracken, the Earl of Ruthven. Frances Kilbracken, informed of the earl's arrival and his... 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

Force 10 from Navarone - Abridged

By: Alistair Maclean

Narrated by: Bob Peck

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The thrilling sequel to Alistair MacLean’s masterpiece of World War II adventure, The Guns of Navarone. The guns of Navarone have been silenced, but the heroic survivors have no time to rest on their laurels. Almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away, Keith Mallory, Andrea and Dusty Miller are... Read more

Guns of Navarone - Abridged

By: Alistair Maclean

Narrated by: Bob Peck

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Guns of Navarone and its three sequels, in which the same characters are sent on other wartime missions, together in one volume for the first time to mark the 50th anniversary of the original book . THE GUNS OF NAVARONEMallory, Miller and Andrea are united into a lethally effective team. Their mission: to silence the... Read more

The Legend of Bagger Vance (Movie Tie-In) - Abridged

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: Ronny Cox

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The time: 1931. The place: the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept Atlantic shore. The event: a once-in-a-lifetime 36-hole match...in which the stakes are higher than anyone imagined.

In Steven Pressfield's richly imagined, vividly detailed story, golf legends Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen are joined by a local unsung opponent,... Read more

Vom Ende der Nacht (Autorisierte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Claire Daverley

Narrated by: Heike Warmuth

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Will und Rosie. Sie könnten gegensätzlicher nicht sein, und doch verlieben sie sich ineinander: verstohlene Blicke, Sonnenuntergänge am Lagerfeuer, Gespräche bis spät in die Nacht. Sie sind kurz davor, etwas Wunderbares zu beginnen. Bis eines Tages ihre Welt zerbricht. Auch wenn die Jahre vergehen, finden sie immer wieder zueinander und können... Read more

Black Bones, Red Earth - Abridged

By: Lee Richie

Narrated by: Sandy Gore

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An Australian/English historical drama set in the unforgiving landscape of the Australian outback during the 1950s, the story follows the life of Katherine, an English child migrant who is consigned to an austere life on an isolated property beyond Broken Hill. There is little love in Katherine's life until Aboriginal station hands offer their... Read more

Persuasion - Abridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Catherine Bilson, Sarah Jane Rose, Graham Scott...

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Persuasion was the last novel completed by Jane Austen and was first published posthumously in December, 1817.The story represents an interesting configuration of Austen’s characteristic narrative patterns. The heroine, Anne Eliot, is something of an old maid—she is twenty-seven years old, still single and is considered by family and friends to... Read more

Die Farben der Frauen (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Natasha Lester

Narrated by: Elke Appelt

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Seit die Frauen Farbe tragen. England, 1918: Obwohl das Tragen roten Lippenstifts noch als skandalös gilt, stellt die junge Leonora in der Apotheke ihres Vaters heimlich Kosmetika her. Als ihr Vater an der Spanischen Grippe stirbt, sucht sie ihr Glück in Amerika und lernt den charmanten Everett kennen - und lieben. Doch um diese Liebe muss sie... Read more

Fall of Giants - Abridged

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: Dan Stevens

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ken Follett’s magnificent new historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. 

A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new... Read more

Die Frauen von New York - Glanz der Freiheit - Töchter Amerikas, Band 1 (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Ella Carey

Narrated by: Sabina Godec

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Stunde der Frauen. New York, 1942: Immer mehr Männer werden an die Front gerufen, auch die Köche im Valentino's, wo die junge Lily Rose arbeitet. Mit viel Ehrgeiz und großer Leidenschaft setzt Lily nun alles daran, die erste Küchenchefin der Geschichte zu werden. Bei ihrer Suche nach neuen Rezepten in Zeiten der Rationierung verliebt sie... Read more

The Foreign Correspondent - Abridged

By: Alan Furst

Narrated by: Alfred Molina

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2007 Audie Award Finalist for Thriller/Suspense 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

Paul Ernst Rattelmüller liest Ludwig Thoma - Abridged

By: Ludwig Thoma

Narrated by: Paul Ernst Rattelmüller

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der bekannte Rundfunkautor und -moderator Paul Ernst Rattelmüller liest auf unverkennbare Weise beliebte und bekannte Geschichten von Ludwig Thoma, u.a. "Die Dachserin", "Assessor Karlchen", "Monika", "Die Wilderer" und viele andere mehr. Paul Ernst Rattelmüller (* 27. März 1924 in Regensburg; † 12. Januar 2004 in Starnberg) war ein deutscher... Read more

فوضى الحواس - Abridged

By: أحلام مستغانمي

Narrated by: عائشة الخراط

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

«الحب ليس سوى حالة ارتياب، فكيف لك أن تكون على يقين من إحساس مبني أصلًا على فوضى الحواس، وعلى حالة متبادلة من سوء الفهم يتوقع فيها كل واحد أنه يعرف عن الآخر ما يكفي ليحبه». تَدور أحداث الرواية حول كاتبة متزوّجة من ضابط جيش كبير، تقابل بالصّدفة رجلًا غامضًا يَحمل اسم «صاحب المعطف» وهو رجل له فَلسفة فوضوية وغريبة. تتخذه كمصدرٍ للإلهام حتى تكمل... Read more

In the Company of the Courtesan - Abridged

By: Sarah Dunant

Narrated by: Richard Grant

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment.

Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant’s... Read more

Queen of the Underworld - Abridged

By: Gail Godwin

Narrated by: Stephanie Zimbalist

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here at last is the eagerly awaited new novel from New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin. Queen of the Underworld is sweeping and sultry literary fiction, featuring a memorable young heroine and engaging characters whose intimate dramas interconnect with hers.
In the summer of 1959, as Castro clamps down on Cuba and its first wave of... Read more

Un Mundo Feliz - Abridged

By: Aldous Huxley

Narrated by: Armando Hernandez

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Un mundo feliz es un clásico de la literatura del siglo XX, una sombría metáfora sobre el futuro. La novela describe un mundo en el que finalmente se han cumplido los peores vaticinios: triunfan los dioses del consumo y la comodidad, y el orbe se organiza en diez zonas en apariencia seguras y estables. Sin embargo, este mundo ha sacrificado... Read more

Helle Tage, dunkle Schuld - Kriminalinspektor Carl Bruns, Band 1 (Autorisierte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Eva Völler

Narrated by: Steffen Groth

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eine Frau, die sich in der Nachkriegszeit einen Platz im Leben erkämpft, ein Mann, der gegen das Unrecht kämpft und ein historischer Kriminalfall, der auf Tatsachen beruht. Der erste große Spannungsroman der SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Eva Völler - authentisch, aufwühlend und packend. Ruhrgebiet, 1948. Der Kriminalbeamte Carl Bruns arbeitet für... Read more

The Other Boleyn Girl - Abridged

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Ruthie Henshall

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The #1 New York Times bestseller from “the queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory is a rich, compelling novel of love, sex, ambition, and intrigue surrounding the Tudor court of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the infamous Boleyn family.

When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of the... Read more

Die Dresdnerin - Abridged

By: Alexander Asisi

Narrated by: Johannes Brandrup

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

DIE DRESDNERIN von Alexander Asisi "Mörderisches Finale im Feuersturm" - Sächsische Zeitung "Das Trauma des 13. Februars 1945 wurde schon vielfältig verarbeitet, als Krimi jedoch noch nicht ." - BILD Februar 1945: Während überall im Reich die Bomben der Alliierten niedergehen, treibt ein Serienmörder in mehreren deutschen Städten sein... Read more

La falsa sirvienta - Abridged

By: Esther Hatch

Narrated by: Ana Viñuela

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lady Patience Kendrick nació para el privilegio y siempre ha vivido una vida de lujos en la que no le ha faltado de nada. Cuando su hermano mayor la acusa de ser frívola y altanera, decide demostrarle que no es así y lo hace de manera drástica: se disfraza de sirvienta para que vea que es tan capaz de trabajar como cualquier otra persona. Acepta... Read more

House of the Rising Sun - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bestselling author James Lee Burke’s “stunning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) masterpiece is the story of a father and son separated by war, circumstance, and a race for the Holy Grail—a thrilling entry in the Holland family saga.

After a violent encounter that leaves four Mexican soldiers dead, Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland escapes the... Read more