Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Other Queen - Abridged

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Bianca Amato, Dagmara Dominczyk & Graeme Malcolm

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory—a dazzling new novel about the intriguing, romantic, and maddening Mary, Queen of Scots.

Fleeing violent rebellions in Scotland, Mary looks to Queen Elizabeth of England for sanctuary. Though promised protection, Mary, perceived as a serious threat... Read more

The Wedding - Abridged

By: Dorothy West

Narrated by: Regina Taylor

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

From Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, The Wedding is an intimate glimpse into African American middle class. Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, this is the story of life in the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's black bourgeoisie. Within this inner... Read more

Lords of the North - Abridged

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Jamie Glover

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The third installment of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series.After achieving victory at King Alfred’s side, Uhtred of Bebbanburg is returning to his home in the North,... Read more

Miss Dollar - Abridged

By: Machado de Assis

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Miss Dollar", um conto de Machado de Assis, narra a história de um cachorro perdido e os eventos que se desenrolam ao seu redor. A trama se desenrola em torno da busca pelo cão, revelando as complexidades das relações humanas e a ironia das circunstâncias. O conto destaca temas de amor, perda e acaso, tecendo uma crítica sutil às convenções... Read more

El amante polaco. Libro 2 - Abridged

By: Elena Poniatowska

Narrated by: Ignacio Casas & Anabel Mendez

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stanisław Poniatowski pasea por la soledad de su palacio, acaba de ser nombrado rey, pero los problemas no se han hecho esperar: las deudas de la corona son incontables, su familia confabula contra él y sus vecinos, Rusia, Austria y Prusia, amenazan con destruir todo aquello por lo que ha luchado. ¿Será capaz de mantener su reino... Read more

People of the Wolf (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Kathleen O'Neal Gear & W. Michael Gear

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Nanette Savard, Joseph Thornhill, ...

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As the Ice Age ends and the glaciers release their hold on North America, a brave band of people make their way into the new continent. The climate is changing and the game is scarce. A hostile tribe pursues them, driving them ever southward. In their midst rises a young shaman, who receives a Dream from the spirit of the Wolf, a vision of... Read more

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Paul Scofield & (Null) Cast

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

""How shall we beguile the lazy time,if not with some delight?""

Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the WildThings Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Discseries. An introductory essay by Harvard scholar Harold Bloom accompanies the CD. Read more

Tess and the Highlander - Abridged

By: May McGoldrick & Jan Coffey

Narrated by: Anya VirtualVoice

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Macpherson Clan Novel  Tess Lindsay has spent most of her life on the remote Isle of May, uncertain of her identity. Raised by the two sole inhabitants of the island, she is left to fend for herself after their deaths, until a stranger washes ashore in a storm. Tess pulls him from the surf, not knowing that in saving the Highlander she is... Read more

La Vie des Disciples de Jésus-Christ, jusqu' à la Destruction du Temple de Jérusalem. - Abridged

By: Israel Nazir

Narrated by: Israel Nazir

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Cette histoire romancée ou roman historique commence quelques jours après la crucifixion de Jésus-Christ par la découverte par Marie-Madeleine et Marie-Salomé du sépulcre vide de Jésus. L'histoire s'étale ensuite sur les 40 années qui suivirent et se termine par la destruction du Temple de Jérusalem.

Cette histoire est centrée sur la vie des... Read more

Eine Mittsommerhochzeit - Abridged

By: May McGoldrick & Jan Coffey

Narrated by: Gemma-Virtual Narrator

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

SIE SIND HERZLICH EINGELADEN ZUM HIGHLAND WEDDING EVENT DES JAHRES! Ihre Ehe wurde zwei Jahrzehnte lang vorbereitet. Elizabeth Hay ist jung, gebildet und hat ihre eigenen Vorstellungen von ihrem Leben. Alexander Macpherson ist ein Highlander und ein Pirat und nicht bereit, sich an eine zarte Hofblume zu binden. Aber die Ehre gebietet es... Read more

Les Miserables - Abridged

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 43 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Considered to be French novelist Victor Hugo's masterpiece, Les Miserables, which was published in 1862, is a sprawling historical and philosophical epic that covers from 1815 through the Paris Uprising in 1832. Notable for its many subplots and digressions from the main storyline, the novel's stated aim is a progress from evil to good, from... Read more

Zeit zu verzeihen - Roman nach einer wahren Geschichte (Autorisierte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Hera Lind

Narrated by: Yara Blümel

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eine wahre Liebesgeschichte aus der dunkelsten Zeit der DDR: Bestseller-Autorin Hera Lind erzählt in ihrem Tatsachen-Roman Zeit zu verzeihen von einem unvorstellbaren Verrat, einer qualvollen Zeit im DDR-Gefängnis und von der Kraft wahrer Liebe. Als sich Clara und Viktor im Sommer 1965 begegnen, wissen sie nicht, dass sie sich schon einmal als... Read more

The Chrysalis - Abridged

By: Heather Terrell

Narrated by: Timothi Jane Graham

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Haarlem, Holland, seventeenth century: The city’s chief magistrate commissions a family portrait from Dutch master painter Johannes Miereveld. But when the artist sees the magistrate’s daughter, Amalia, an illicit love affair begins, and Miereveld creates a captivating masterpiece, The Chrysalis.

New York, present day: Mara Coyne is one... Read more

January 1941: - Abridged

By: Nick Seider

Narrated by: Nick Seider, Hannah Marks & Garrett Fritz

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hello, my name is Nick Seider, and I am the creator of Green Valley Radio, an emulated radio experience that takes you back and time and tunes you in to the news, music, and culture of the past. In this audio book series, we share our original news, fashion, & Homefront pieces that give you a taste of what the world was like in January 1941... 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

Chocolate Girls - Abridged

By: Annie Murray

Narrated by: Frances Barber

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Chocolate Girls, read by actress Frances Barber, three very different women work together at Cadbury's Bournville factory, and their lives become entwined by war and work - and a child called David.

Edie, the main character, marries young to escape her unhappy family home. Widowed at nineteen and, after losing her child from the marriage, she... Read more

The Sands of Ammon - Abridged

By: Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Continuing the international bestselling saga of Alexander the Great, Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Sands of Ammon brilliantly describes his quest to conquer Asia, the limitless domain ruled by the Great King of the Persians.

In a seemingly impossible venture, the mighty Alexander and his men storm Persian fortresses and harbours, crippling King... Read more

Empire of Dragons - Abridged

By: Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Valerio Massimo Manfredi's Empire of Dragons is set in Anatolia, AD 260. The Roman outpost of Edessa is on its last legs after the Persian siege, and Roman Emperor Publius Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to negotiate peace. But the meeting is a trap and the Emperor ends up in enemy hands, along with the commander of his personal... Read more

Peony in Love - Abridged

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Jodi Long

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”

For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green tea, and jasmine, a small theatrical troupe is... Read more

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon - Abridged

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Polly Holliday

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Like America in the mid-nineteenth century, Emma Garnet Tate is a woman at war with herself. Born to privilege on a James River plantation, she grows up increasingly aware that her family's prosperity is inextricably linked to the institution of slavery.

As she tells her story in 1900, she is still prey to her childhood, to the memories of a life... Read more

The Serpent on the Crown - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling master of suspense, Elizabeth Peters, brings an exotic world of adventure, intrigue, and danger to vivid life, in a tale as powerful as ancient Egypt.The Emersons have returned to the Valley of the Kings in 1922 and Amelia Peabody and her family look forward to delving once more into the age-old mysteries buried in... Read more

The Gift of the Magi - Abridged

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: Naco

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Gift of the Magi: A Special Christmas Edition - Includes Candle-Making Tutorial and Exclusive Audiobook!
In "The Gift of the Magi," O. Henry weaves an exciting and touching narrative that encapsulates the true spirit of Christmas. At a time when one dollar and eighty-seven cents are all that Della has to buy a gift for her beloved Jim, this... Read more

With No One As Witness - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Charles Keating

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Delicately textured. . . achingly compassionate. . . gripping. . . . It’s one of George’s best, and that’s saying something.” —Seattle Times
The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s chilling 13th novel in the Inspector Lynley series
Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley faces the greatest challenge of his career.When an adolescent boy’s nude body... Read more

Heul doch nicht, du lebst ja noch - Abridged

By: Kirsten Boie

Narrated by: Jodie Ahlborn

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Von einem Leben nach den Schrecken des Krieges. Hamburg, Juni 1945: Die Stadt liegt in Trümmern. Mittendrin leben Traute, Hermann und Jakob. Der nennt sich allerdings Friedrich, denn niemand soll erfahren, dass er Jude ist. Als Hermann ihm dennoch auf die Spur kommt, will er nichts mehr mit Jakob zu tun haben. Schuld, Wahrheit, Angst und Wut... Read more