Historical Fiction audiobooks

Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross (Unabridged)

By: Florence Morse KINGSLEY

Narrated by: Joan Murray, John Mauffray, Reginald Smith & Je...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This is a unique sequel to the book Titus: A Comrade of the Cross written in a very different style, though none the less memorable, full of excitement and suspense! The author combines several stories together with great skill and ease, creating tension, making you wonder how things can play out until the very climax is reached. A blind girl... Read more

The Iliad (Unabridged)

By: author

Narrated by: Sandi Candelaria, Kelley Carr, Eric Rolling & E...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Homer’s Iliad is the first great work of Western literature. Composed in twenty-four books of Greek hexameter poetry, it portrays the events of the last year of the Trojan War. Its translation into rhyming couplets by Alexander Pope is considered by some the greatest act of translation in English. Its power sweeps the reader along through an... Read more

The Maid of Maiden Lane (Unabridged)

By: Amelia E. Barr

Narrated by: Regina Rivera, Eric Regan, Vivian Hall & James ...

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Mrs. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in America during the last decade of the 18th century with an excellent love story plot. Some of those issues include: the moral dilemma and debate over the French Revolution, and how that event touched the... Read more

History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD (Unabridged)

By: Robert F. Pennell

Narrated by: Jose Pollard, Lacey Love, Jason Berkson & Jesus...

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD. This compilation is designed to be a companion to the author's History of Greece. It is hoped that it may fill a want, now felt in many high schools and academies, of a short and clear statement of the rise and fall of Rome, with a biography of her chief men, and an outline of her... Read more

The Persians (Unabridged)

By: author

Narrated by: ROBERT SMITH, Gregory Hall, Patricia Franzen & ...

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This is one of the few Greek tragedies that deals with historical events rather than mythological ones. The elders of the Persian court await new of the outcome of the Battle of Salamis, and mourn when they find that their king, Xerxes, has lost to the Greeks. Read more

The Scarlet Pimpernel (Unabridged)

By: EMMA ORCZY

Narrated by: Carlos Morris, Sharon Islas, Alexander Tawwater...

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In the year 1792, the French Revolution is in the midst of its bloodiest stage. Aristocrats are being executed left and right by the Republic when the guillotine begins to be repeatedly cheated of aristocratic victims due to a series of daring rescues carried out by a mysterious hero known only as “The Scarlet Pimpernel.” Nothing is known about... Read more

The Wanderer (Unabridged)

By: Fanny Burney

Narrated by: Angel Queen, Anne Brown, Patricia Newton & Dale...

Length: 35 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the fourth and final novel by Fanny Burney, the author of Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla. "Who is "Miss Ellis?" Why did she board a ship from France to England at the beginning of the French revolution? Anyway, the loss of her purse made this strange "wanderer" dependent upon the charity of some good people and, of course, bad ones. But... Read more

Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril (Unabridged)

By: G. A. HENTY

Narrated by: Leroy Ruiz, Joshua Burgos, Robert Logiudice & L...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

G. A . Henty was a prolific writer of historical fiction for young adults. In this collection of shorter stories we visit Malay pirates, have a couple of tales of India, a shipwreck off the Channel Islands and a bursting dam in California, and finish off escaping from captivity in China Read more

Julius Caesar (Unabridged)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Jeannette Trotter, Myron Swint, Ethel Laureano ...

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, based on true events, concerns the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, his assassination in 44 BC, and its immediate aftermath. Probably written in 1599 and among the first of Shakespeare's plays to be performed at the Globe Theater, Julius Caesar is one of his best-known dramas and has received... Read more

La despoblación

By: Marina Closs

Narrated by: Emilio Caballero

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

En el Guayrá, una misión jesuítica en medio de la selva, el padre Antonio Ruiz y su fiel ayudante, el padre Jesús Maceta, viven sus días imbuídos en un cristianismo profundamente creyente e igualmente alucinado. Entre aborígenes y niños músicos que siguen sus enseñanzas y sus órdenes, los días y las aventuras se suceden. El cristianismo de la... Read more

Blackbeard (Unabridged)

By: RALPH DELAHAYE PAINE

Narrated by: Charlotte Strate, Katherine Smith, Thomas Cash ...

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Blackbeard Buccaneer tells the story of the infamous Edward Teach, better known as the pirate Blackbeard. This book is an exciting depiction of the man and his deeds, both good and bad. The story, though told as fiction, sheds some light on the man's character, from his prominence in his home country of England to his death in combat against a... Read more

Stella Maris (Unabridged)

By: William John LOCKE

Narrated by: Karissa Scott, Helen Carder, Virginia Bryant & ...

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Stellamaris is a young paralysed girl who is confined to a bed in the Channel House overlooking the English Channel. She is cared for by her elderly uncle and aunt, Sir Oliver and Lady Blount and is often visited by two young men, John Risca, a journalist, and Walter Herold, an actor, who regularly visit the house from London and who entertain... Read more

The Fortune of the Rougons (Unabridged)

By: Émile ZOLA

Narrated by: Debbie Rangel, Allen Santos, Stacy Burton & Del...

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in the 20-novel Rougon-Macquart Cycle. A monument of French naturalism. The sprawling tale of a family in Provence, during the Second Empire, the family that grew out of the liaisons between Adelaide Fouque and her husband Rougons, and the smuggler Macquart. Read more

A Study in Shadows (Unabridged)

By: William John LOCKE

Narrated by: Nicholas Rico, Eric Williams, Mary Taylor & Gar...

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Among the mixture of people spending the summer in a pension (boarding house) in Geneva are Felicia, a 20-year-old, and Katherine (30) who become good friends. Another person in the pension is Mr. Chetwynd, an elderly gentleman, whose handsome son Raine comes from Oxford to visit him – and causes a stir in the company, particularly with Felicia... Read more

Warriors of Old Japan, and Other Stories (Unabridged)

By: YEI THEODORA OZAKI

Narrated by: Patricia Carter, Ethel Bridges, Jeffrey Murray ...

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a collection of stories featuring members of the Samurai - the warrior class of old Japan, rendered into English by Yei Theodora Ozaki. In the preface, the author herself says, "In picturesqueness of conception Japanese stories yield the palm to none. And they are rich in quaint expressions and dainty conceits." Read more

Voice From the Cave (Unabridged)

By: Mildred A. Wirt BENSON

Narrated by: James Nimox, Mark Sullivan, Jeanne Smith & Glor...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Penny Parker and her father go on vacation accompanied by a mysterious woman and end up engrossed in a hunt for foreign spies! Read more

The Primitive (Unabridged)

By: Chester Himes

Narrated by: Joyce Callaghan, Lillian Martineau, Lora Chase ...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Harlem's simmering streets become the backdrop for a volatile encounter in The Primitive, a searing novel by Chester Himes. Jesse, a Black ex-con seeking a fresh start, collides with Kriss, a disillusioned white socialite. Their whirlwind weekend, fueled by alcohol and unspoken tensions, ignites a firestorm of passion and resentment. As their... Read more

At the Gate of Samaria (Unabridged)

By: William John LOCKE

Narrated by: Pearl Pires, Wilson Wilson, Krystal Olivera & R...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The novel is set in the 1890’s. Clytie Davenant is a headstrong young woman who escapes from the stultifying country life of her family to move to London and work as an artist. There she shares a studio off the King’s Road and enjoys the bohemian society and company of the people she meets. However, she plunges into an unwise marriage and the... Read more

Abject Authority

By: J. Clifton Slater

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Some skills need to remain relevant.



Everybody starts at the bottom when they change careers. Alerio Sisera understood the concept. He even recognized the difference between being a military man who lived by the gladius and a politician who used a pen to craft agreements.



But the theory went to Hades when a series of brutal robberies required... Read more

Recognition

By: Susan Greenwood

Narrated by: Marian Hussey

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1717 and a remarkable woman is reflecting on a life lived, always knowing she was different, always wondering why.



Even as a young child, Elisabeth was able to see, do, and feel things that others clearly could not—and knew to be careful. It was the era of witch-hunting in France and many like her were tortured and burnt at the... Read more

An Uncertain Legacy

By: Susan Greenwood

Narrated by: Marian Hussey

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

1659: Alone at fifteen years old, Elisabeth Osborne is easy prey as she fancies she can manage on her own in Paris, but a chance meeting with the madam of a gentlemen's club changes her mind. It is here she receives protection, the sort of education not taught in convents, and, just as important, the freedom to practice her skill with herbal... Read more

Guarded by the Warrior

By: Eliza Knight

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Suffering through a short marriage to an enemy of Scotland, Lady Emilia MacCulloch manages to escape just before her husband dies. But the Ross Clan will stop at nothing to get her back, for she plays a big part in their plans to thwart Robert the Bruce. She fears not only for her life, but for her family who will be labeled traitors. Placed by... Read more

Lord Montagu's Page (Unabridged)

By: George Payne Rainsford JAMES

Narrated by: Stanley Crawford, Cleveland King, Julius Dodge ...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A young man is crossing the English Channel bound for France. It is obviously not his first such trip, but who is he and what is his errand? Almost immediately, Ned, for such is his name, falls into danger. He is carried to the home of a town official, where he is tended by a doctor, the official and his beautiful ward. It emerges he is page to... Read more

Idols (Unabridged)

By: William John LOCKE

Narrated by: Robert Morris, Esther Morrow, Walter Eddy & Art...

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The novel centres around four people: Gerard and Irene Merriam, their inseparable friend Hugh Colman who once saved Gerard’s life, and Minna, a Jewess. Minna throws common sense and caution to the winds in order to ensure her inheritance and the lives of all four become inextricably bound up in a story of love and ultimate tragedy. Read more