History audiobooks

J. D. Salinger

By: Kenneth Slawenski

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 19 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now comes a new biography that Peter Ackroyd in the Times of London calls "energetic and magnificently researched"—a book from which "a true picture of Salinger emerges." Filled with new information and... Read more

The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely debated since its publication in 1848, The Communist Manifesto is one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Presenting an analytical approach to the problems of capitalism and the resulting class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, the text lays out the rationale and goals of communism as conceived by... Read more

Hunger

By: Knut Hamsun

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Knut Hamsun's Hunger, first published in 1890 and hailed as the literary beginning of the twentieth century, is a masterpiece of psychologically driven fiction. The story of a struggling artist living on the edge of starvation, the novel portrays the unnamed first-person narrator's descent into paranoia, despair, and madness as hunger overtakes... Read more

History Is Wrong

By: Erich von Daniken

Narrated by: John Allen Nelson

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Erich von Däniken again shows his flair for revealing truths that his contemporaries have missed. After closely analyzing hundreds of ancient and apparently unrelated texts, he is now ready to proclaim that human history is nothing like the world religions claim—and he has the proof!



In History Is Wrong, von Däniken takes a closer look at the... Read more

Twilight of the Gods

By: Erich von Daniken

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

High up in the Bolivian Andes—4,000 meters above sea level—lies Puma punku, an ancient ruined city that simply could never have been constructed by its Stone Age inhabitants."Something here really stinks to high heaven," writes Erich von Däniken.



"In Twilight of the Gods," says von Däniken, "I document precisely what it was that left the first... Read more

Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, said to be dedicated to Aristotle's son Nicomachus, is widely regarded as one of the most important works in the history of Western philosophy. Addressing the question of how men should best live, Aristotle's treatise is not a mere philosophical meditation on the subject, but a practical examination that aims to... Read more

Symposium, the Apology, and the Allegory of the Cave

By: Plato

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection brings together three of Plato's most enduring classics: the Symposium, the Apology, and the famous "Allegory of the Cave" from the Republic.



The Symposium, a dialogue on the nature and purpose of love centered around the ideals of beauty and goodness, is arguably the deepest inquiry of its kind in Western philosophy. The Apology,... Read more

America Aflame

By: David Goldfield

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 27 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom. Where past scholars have interpreted the war as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatest failure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelical... Read more

A Different Mirror

By: Ronald Takaki

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounts the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States—Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans,... Read more

The Eyes of the Sphinx

By: Erich von Daniken

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In this follow-up to Erich von Däniken's worldwide bestseller Chariots of the Gods, the author reveals startling new evidence that could prove his theory that ancient Earth had contact with aliens. Von Däniken claims that an alien race helped to create the pyramids of Egypt, a claim he based upon the ruins themselves. And it is these ruins that... Read more

Pox

By: Michael Willrich

Narrated by: K. Todd Freeman

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold story of how America's Progressive-era war on smallpox sparked one of the great civil liberties battles of the twentieth century.

At the turn of the last century, a powerful smallpox epidemic swept the United States from coast to coast. The age-old disease spread swiftly through an increasingly interconnected American landscape: from... Read more

Selections from the Writings of Cicero

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote on a wide range of subjects, from Greek philosophy to moral duty to friendship. Though he considered philosophy secondary to politics and often used his writings for explicit political ends, his work has nevertheless been widely read for over two thousand years and has influenced... Read more

The Blitz

By: Juliet Gardiner

Narrated by: Catherine Harvey

Length: 17 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of ‘Wartime’ and ‘The Thirties’comes an outstanding history of the most prolonged and devastating attack ever endured by Britain's civilian population – the Blitz. September 1940 marked the beginning of Nazi Germany's sustained attack on civilian Britain. Lasting eight months, the Blitz was a new and terrible... Read more

Great Soul

By: Joseph Lelyveld

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the... Read more

Founding Gardeners

By: Andrea Wulf

Narrated by: Antonia Bath

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking look at the Founding Fathers and their obsession with gardening, agriculture, and botany by the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. • “Illuminating and engrossing.” —The New York Times Book Review

For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions:... Read more

The Radicalism of the American Revolution

By: Gordon S. Wood

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 19 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Grand in scope, rigorous in its arguments, and elegantly synthesizing thirty years of scholarship, Gordon S. Wood's Pulitzer Prize–winning book analyzes the social, political, and economic consequences of 1776.



In The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Wood depicts not just a break with England, but the rejection of an entire way of life: of... Read more

Two Treatises of Government

By: John Locke

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Often considered the foundation of political liberalism, John Locke's Two Treatises of Government was first published anonymously in 1689, in the wake of England's Glorious Revolution. In The First Treatise of Government, Locke refutes the idea of divine monarchy, while The Second Treatise of Government articulates Locke's philosophy of... Read more

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

By: Tom Standage

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history, becoming the defining drink during a pivotal historical period.



A History of the World in 6 Glasses tells the story of humanity... Read more

On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty is an exhaustive exploration of social and civic liberty, its limits, and its consequences. Mill's work is a classic of political liberalism that contains a rational justification of the freedom of the individual in opposition to the claims of the state. Drawing upon the empiricism of John... Read more

American Uprising

By: Daniel Rasmussen

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In January 1811, five hundred slaves dressed in military uniforms and armed with guns, cane knives, and axes rose up from the plantations around New Orleans and set out to conquer the city. Ethnically diverse, politically astute, and highly organized, this self-made army challenged not only the economic system of plantation agriculture but also... Read more

Nelson Mandela

By: Mediatek

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Conocido en su país como Madiba, es abogado y político, fue el primer presidente de Sudáfrica elegido democráticamente mediante sufragio universal así como el líder del Umkhonto we Sizwe, el brazo armado del Congreso Nacional Africano (CNA). Estuvo 27 años en la cárcel, la mayoría de los cuales estuvo confinado en la prisión de Robben Island.... Read more

Juan Pablo II

By: Mediatek

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Karol Józef Wojtyła1 , más conocido como Juan Pablo II, fue el 264.º papa de la Iglesia católica entre 1978 y 2005. Juan Pablo II ha sido aclamado como uno de los líderes más influyentes del siglo XX, recordándoselo especialmente por ser uno de los principales símbolos del anticomunismo y por su lucha contra la expansión del marxismo por lugares... Read more

El Che Guevara

By: Mediatek

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernesto Guevara, más conocido como "Che" Guevara. Fue uno de los ideólogos y comandantes que lideraron la Revolución Cubana entre 1953 y 1959, que desembocó en un nuevo régimen político en ese país. Guevara participó desde entonces y hasta 1965 en la organización del Estado cubano desempeñando varios altos cargos de su administración y de su... Read more

Lady Di

By: Mediatek

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Diana Frances Spencer se convirtió en la princesa Diana al esposarse con el príncipe Carlos de Gales. Conocida internacionalmente como Lady Di. Durante su matrimonio con el príncipe Carlos de Gales, heredero de la Corona Británica, tuvo dos hijos, los príncipes Guillermo y Enrique. Su polémica y fatídica muerte, acaecida el 31 de agosto de 1997... Read more