Historical Fiction audiobooks

Keiner von euch - Abridged

By: Felix Mitterer

Narrated by: Felix Holm

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

FELIX MITTERERS ERSTER ROMAN: ÜBER DAS LEBEN EINES AFRIKANERS AM WIENER HOF DES 18. JAHRHUNDERTS. ANGELO SOLIMAN: EIN LEBEN ZWISCHEN EMANZIPATION UND ASSIMILATION MITTE DES 18. JAHRHUNDERTS wird ein Junge von Afrika nach Europa verschleppt und fortan "Angelo Soliman" genannt. Im SIZILIANISCHEN MESSINA tauft man ihn katholisch und erzieht ihn... Read more

The Auschwitz Escape - Abridged

By: Joel C. Rosenberg

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A terrible darkness has fallen upon Jacob Weisz’s beloved Germany. The Nazi regime, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, has surged to power and now hold Germany by the throat. All non-Aryans—especially Jews like Jacob and his family—are treated like dogs.When tragedy strikes during one terrible night of violence, Jacob flees and joins rebel... Read more

I, Ripper - Abridged

By: Stephen Hunter

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The electrifying new thriller from New York Times bestseller Stephen Hunter takes you deep inside the mind of the most notorious serial killer of all time: Jack the Ripper.In the fall of 1888, Jack the Ripper slaughtered five prostitutes in London’s seamy Whitechapel District. He did not just kill—he ripped with a butcher’s glee—and then, after... Read more

Hard Revolution - Abridged

By: George Pelecanos

Narrated by: Lance Reddick

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this epic showdown from "one of the best crime novelists alive" (Dennis Lehane), police officer Derek Strange hunts his brother's killer through a city erupting with rage. Read more

Anthropoid - Abridged

By: Camilla Allegrucci

Narrated by: Riccardo Burbi

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Era il 27 maggio 1942, il Terzo Reich esibiva con orgoglio la bandiera nazista su dieci capitali d'Europa, simbolo della propria dominazione. La Cecoslovacchia, una volta fiorente e ora smembrata, era governata con pugno di ferro da Reinhard Heydrich, uomo spietato e senza scrupoli. Da Praga, capoluogo del protettorato di Boemia e Moravia,... Read more

Letters from an Age of Reason - Abridged

By: Nora Hague

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney & Jeff Woodman

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Cultural and familial fireworks flare when the headstrong teenage daughter of a wealthy New Yorker falls passionately in love with a young man from New Orleans, and from a very different background indeed. Read more

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Abridged

By: Roddy Doyle

Narrated by: Aidan Gillen

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the Booker Prize – Roddy Doyle’s witty, exuberant novel about a young boy trying to make sense of his changing world

It is 1968. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves Geronimo, the Three Stooges, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He can't stand his little brother Sinbad. His best friend is Kevin, and their names are all over Barrytown,... Read more

The Memoirs of Casanova (Adapted & Abridged Edition) - Abridged

By: Giacomo Casanova & Luca Moretti

Narrated by: Luca Moretti

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Let Casanova Sweep You Off Your Feet—an Unforgettable Romance & Opera Audiobook Experience!Passion. Intrigue. Timeless romance. History’s most legendary lover, Giacomo Casanova, comes vividly to life in this deeply immersive audiobook adventure. Enhanced by 24 exquisite opera arias, each emotionally charged chapter will sweep you away to... Read more

Les Miserables - Abridged

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Mark McKerracher

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The classic novel--and hit Broadway show--about escaped convict Jean Valjean has been adapted with easy-to-read text, large type, and short chapters.  This engaging adaptation of the timeless tale is ideal for reluctant readers and kids not yet ready to tackle the original. Read more

The Rising Tide - Abridged

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Larry Pine

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A modern master of the historical novel, Jeff Shaara has painted brilliant depictions of the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War I. Now, The Rising Tide begins a staggering work of fiction bound to be a new generation’s most poignant chronicle of World War II.

Through unforgettable battle scenes in the unforgiving deserts of North... Read more

The Interpretation of Murder - Abridged

By: Jed Rubenfeld

Narrated by: Ron Rifkin

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Interpretation of Murder opens on a hot summer night in 1909 as Sigmund Freud arrives in New York. Among those waiting to greet him is Dr. Stratham Younger, a gifted physician who is one of Freud’s most ardent American supporters. And so begins the visit that will be the great genius’s first–and only–journey to America.
The morning... Read more

The Afghan Campaign - Abridged

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2,300 years ago an unbeaten army of the West invaded the homeland of a fierce Eastern tribal foe. This is one soldier’s story . . .

The bestselling novelist of ancient warfare returns with a riveting historical novel that re-creates Alexander the Great’s invasion of the Afghan kingdoms in 330 b.c.
In a story that might have been ripped from... Read more

Madame Bovary - Abridged

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: Claire Bloom

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure... Read more

Jennifer Government - Abridged

By: Max Barry

Narrated by: Patrick Frederic

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jennifer Government is Here to Help!

In Max Barry’s twisted, hilarious vision of the near future, the world is run by giant American corporations (except for a few deluded holdouts like the French); taxes are illegal; employees take the last names of the companies they work for; The Police and The NRA are publicly-traded security firms; the U.S.... 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

Turn of the Screw - Abridged

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Virginia McKenna

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. ... Read more

Ivanhoe - Abridged

By: Walter Scott

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. ... Read more

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Abridged

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Tom Baker

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. ... 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

Quick Classics Collection: Gothic - Abridged

By: Henry James, Bram Stoker & Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Virginia McKenna, Bruce Alexander & Tom Baker

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. ... Read more

Manchu Palaces - Abridged

By: Jeanne Larson

Narrated by: Susan Clark

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This rich and nuanced portrait of eighteenth-century China follows a Chinese girl' s path to enlightenment. At the midpoint of the Manchus' long sway over the largest empire in China's history, a young girl stands reluctantly on the brink of womanhood. Lotus, the Empress Dowager's servant, decides to follow a spiritual path through... Read more

Through a Glass Darkly - Abridged

By: Karleen Koen

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sparkles with all of the passion, extravagance and scandal of a grand and glorious era…
As opulent and passionate as the 18th century it celebrates, Through a Glass Darkly will sweep you away to the splendors of a lost era. From aristocrats to scoundrels, its rich, vivid characters create their own immortality. Here is the story of a great family... Read more

Foxfire - Abridged

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Jane Gabbert

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates’s strongest and most unsparing novel yet—an always engrossing, often shocking evocation of female rage, gallantry, and grit. 

The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls join a gang dedicated to pride, power, and vengeance on a world... Read more

The M. R. James Collection - Abridged

By: M. R. James

Narrated by: Sir Michael Hordern

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. ... Read more