Historical Fiction audiobooks

Desagüe - Abridged

By: Diego Rodríguez Landeros

Narrated by: Everardo Camacho

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"[Desagüe] ha dejado de mirar únicamente al relato para enriquecerse con el ensayo, la crónica, la estampa autobiográfica".—Milenio Esta novela narra cómo Indra se dispone a seguir el último recorrido de su novia suicida, a partir de cuya muerte se tejen numerosas historias que confluyen en una corriente turbia: la del Gran Canal de Desagüe del... Read more

Heartfire - Abridged

By: Orson Card

Narrated by: Nana Visitor

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The fifth installment of Orson Scott Card' s best-selling series The Tales of Alvin MakerPeggy Guester is a Torch, whose power is so great that she can follow the paths of each person's future and know their most intimate secrets. From the moment of Alvin's birth, Peggy has protected him. Now they are married, but their destinies... 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

Red Prophet - Abridged

By: Orson Card

Narrated by: Nana Visitor

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The second installment of Orson Scott Card' s best-selling series The Tales of Alvin Maker.In the first tale of Alvin Maker— Seventh Son— listeners are introduced to a pioneer America where magic works and special talents are utilized in marvelous ways. In this second installment in the Tales of Alvin Maker,... Read more

Affair - Abridged

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Stephanie Beacham

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Charlotte Arkendale knew all there was to know about men. After all, she'd made a career out of steering marriage-minded women away from untrustworthy members of the opposite sex.

Yet nothing could have prepared her for Baxter St. Ives--an arresting stranger too daring, too determined, too dangerous to be her new man-of-affairs. Still, perhaps he... 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

The Plague Tales - Abridged

By: Ann Benson

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fourteenth-century physician Alejandro Guzman, caught performing an autopsy in Spain, flees across Europe at the time of the Black Death to escape execution for his heretical deed. When he arrives in the Papal city of Avignon, he is conscripted against his will to serve as a Plague Doctor in the court of England's Edward III. Unfolding in a... Read more

Into the Wilderness - Abridged

By: Sara Donati

Narrated by: Jayne Atkinson

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Weaving a vibrant tapestry of fact and fiction, Into the Wilderness sweeps us into another time and place . . . and into the heart of a forbidden, incandescent affair between a spinster Englishwoman and an American frontiersman. Here is an epic of romance and history that will captivate readers from the very first page.

When Elizabeth Middleton,... 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

Tides of War - Abridged

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: Yes

Brilliant at war, a master of politics, and a charismatic lover, Alcibiades was Athens’ favorite son and the city’s greatest general.

A prodigal follower of Socrates, he embodied both the best and the worst of the Golden Age of Greece. A commander on both land and sea, he led his armies to victory after victory.

But like the heroes in a great... Read more

Blut und Silber (Gekürzte Fassung) - Abridged

By: Sabine Ebert

Narrated by: Dana Geissler

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Deutschland 1296: König Adolf von Nassau setzt eine gewaltige Streitmacht gegen das sächsische Freiberg in Bewegung, um die reiche Silberstadt in die Knie zu zwingen. Unter den Bürgern entbrennt ein heftiger Streit: Dürfen sie sich ihrem König widersetzen? Mittendrin im Getümmel dieser unruhigen Zeit ist Änne, eine Nachfahrin der Stadtbegründer... Read more

Booth - Abridged

By: David M. Robertson

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A gripping historical novel set amidst the confusion and chaos of the Civil War, Booth is the story of the only conspirator in the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln who was not killed or executed--a young man who falls under the spell of the charismatic and captivating world-famous stage actor, and is gradually sucked into the vortex of... Read more

Im Schatten der Königin (gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Tanja Kinkel

Narrated by: Ulrike Hübschmann & Ulrich Noethen

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Als am 8. September 1560 die junge Amy Robsart tot am Fuße einer Treppe gefunden wird, ist ganz Europa sicher, den Mörder zu kennen: ihren ehrgeizigen Ehemann Robert, den Favoriten von Elizabeth I., der sich Hoffnungen auf die Hand der Königin macht. Musste Amy deswegen sterben? Und welches Geheimnis hat die Frau, die wie keine andere im... Read more

Gates of Fire - Abridged

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Steven Pressfield brings the battle of Thermopylae to brilliant life.”—Pat Conroy

At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army.

Day after... Read more

Auf Bischof Bernwards Spuren - Abridged

By: Doris Carla Doussemer

Narrated by: Doris Carla Doussemer

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Doris Carla Doussemer erzählt das Aufwachsen, Leben und Wirken Bischof Bernwards aus heutiger Perspektive. Sie stützt sich dabei auf historische Quellen und Literatur, fügt aber auch imaginäre Details und fiktive Geschichten an. Auf diese Weise wird Bernward als Mensch und Geistlicher lebendig und sein Denken und Handeln nicht nur als... Read more

The Rebel - Abridged

By: May McGoldrick & Jan Coffey

Narrated by: Anya Virtual-Voice

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

 Winner of Holt Medallion!  WANTED…for crimes against the king.  In retaliation for the brutality of the English troops, the Irish rebel Egan is fighting back, leading a secret group of revolutionaries—and building a legend across the country.   REJECTED…by her own family.  Jane Purefoy is a woman with a past. The daughter of an English... 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

Götterflüstern. Gefundene Liebe - Abridged

By: Jenny Völker

Narrated by: Désirée Singson

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stell dir vor, die Götter spielen ein Spiel und du gerätst zwischen die Fronten. Elli ist Archäologin und gräbt wie jeden Sommer in Delphi aus. Im Zuge dessen findet sie eine kleine Statue der griechischen Göttin Athena, die sich seltsam leicht anfühlt. Kurz darauf überschlagen sich die Ereignisse. Ein geheimnisvoller Gutachter taucht auf,... Read more

Im Auge der Sonne (Gekürzte Fassung) - Abridged

By: Barbara Wood

Narrated by: Tanja Geke

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Die Heilerin Leah hasst Jotham, den Mann, für den ihr Vater sie bestimmt hat. Und sie liebt David, den jungen Kämpfer und Schriftgelehrten. Leahs Weigerung, Jotham zu heiraten, stürzt ihre Familie ins Unglück. Wie soll sie diese Schuld tilgen? Von David lernt sie das Geheimnis einer neuen Schrift. Vor dem Thron der großen Pharaonenkönigin... Read more

The White Queen - Abridged

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

The inspiration for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings to life the extraordinary story of Elizabeth Woodville, a woman who rises from obscurity to become Queen of England, and changes the course of history forever.

Elizabeth Woodville is a woman of extraordinary... Read more

Aurora Leigh - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Narrated by: Diana Quick

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s classic poem, read by Diana Quick. Written in blank verse, Aurora Leigh is Browning’s self-styled ‘novel in verse’, a first-person narration of the lives of Marian Erle and the eponymous Aurora. Travelling across Florence, London, and Paris, and playing off the works of Anne Louise Germaine de... Read more

Romeo and Juliet - Abridged

By: Tom Wheelwright, E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laur...

Narrated by: Joseph Fiennes, Maria Miles & a full cast

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the world’s most celebrated and lyrical love story, the sublime devotion of two young lovers transcends their earthly fate.The noble Veronese houses of Montague and Capulet are locked in a bitter feud. When Romeo (a Montague) and Juliet (a Capulet) fall in love, they are swept up in a series of violent events and cruel twists of fortune.... 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

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Abridged

By: Michael Chabon

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe beloved, award-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a Michael Chabon masterwork, is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay. Now with special bonus material by Michael Chabon.A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus”... Read more