Historical Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
'Tilda Jane - Marshall Saunders
'Tilda Jane - Marshall Saunders
- Author: Marshall Saunders
- Genre: Historical Fiction
When spunky 'Tilda Jane isn't allowed to keep her beloved dog with her at the orphanage, she decides to set out on her own in search of a home where the inseparable pair will be accepted. Throughout her weary travels she encounters many people, both...
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (Version 2) - Mark Twain
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (Version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Erotica / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Please note: this recording contains strong language. Also known simply as "1601", this is a humorously risque work by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally acknowledged by the author in 1906. (Summary by John Greenman &...
Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
- Author: Maria Edgeworth
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Satire
"One of the most inspired chronicles written in English" was the verdict of William Butler Yeats on the novel Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth which was first published in 1800. It is recognised as the first true historical novel in English as...
Joel, a Boy of Galilee - Annie Fellows Johnston
Joel, a Boy of Galilee - Annie Fellows Johnston
- Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Historical
Joel, a crippled boy, cannot play with the children and has nothing to care about. Rabbi Phineas helps him to find something he can do and tells him the reason that he is so kind is because of a boy from his hometown of Nazareth. Soon stories are...
The Actress in High Life: An Episode in Winter Quarters - Susan Petigru King-Bowen
The Actress in High Life: An Episode in Winter Quarters - Susan Petigru King-Bowen
- Author: Susan Petigru King-Bowen
- Genre: Historical Fiction
1812 is the year and Portugal the location for this adventure. The characters for the most part are British officers. Lord Strathern sends for his daughter Lady Mabel Stewart presently in Scotland to join him in Elvas where he has stationed his...
The Favor of Kings - Mary Hastings Bradley
The Favor of Kings - Mary Hastings Bradley
- Author: Mary Hastings Bradley
- Genre: Historical Fiction
"Never have bright romance and black scandal been more attached to the name of lovely woman," writes a quaint and susceptible chronicler, " than to that of fair Anne Boleyn." Certainly no girl ever flashed so meteor-like above the satellites of an...
A Horse's Tale (Version 2) - Mark Twain
A Horse's Tale (Version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A Horse's Tale is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), written partially in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buffalo Bill's favorite horse, at a fictional frontier outpost with the U.S. 7th Cavalry. With a fanciful mix of points of view, we hear...
War and Peace, Book 13: 1812 - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Book 13: 1812 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
War and Peace (Russian: ΠΠΎΠΉΠ½Π° ΠΈ ΠΌΠΈΡ, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: ΠΠΎΠΉΠ½Π° ΠΈ ΠΌΠΈΡΡ, Voyna i mirβ) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the...
The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers Vol. 1 - Robert Henry Newell
The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers Vol. 1 - Robert Henry Newell
- Author: Robert Henry Newell
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
These are a collection of humorous "letters" written by a fictional character to a relation in the north during the Civil War. They were published regularly in the New York Mercury Sunday newspaper for the four years of the war. In the letters,...
The Reign of George VI, 1900-1925: A Forecast Written in the Year 1763 - Charles William Chadwick Oman
The Reign of George VI, 1900-1925: A Forecast Written in the Year 1763 - Charles William Chadwick Oman
- Author: Charles William Chadwick Oman
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Imagine a world in which there were no major revolutionary upheavals (the American, French and Russian revolutions did not occur), there was no Victorian Age, the Great War (World War I) went unfought. No Cold War, no United States, no Soviet Union;...
Clementina - A. E. W. Mason
Clementina - A. E. W. Mason
- Author: A. E. W. Mason
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This well-written novel is a fictional account of a true historical rescue mission. In 1719, at the age of 17, when she was on her way across Europe to marry James Stuart, the Catholic pretender to the British throne, Princess Maria Clementina...
Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens
Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A wayside tavern where the local men drink and gossip; an unsolved, twenty year old murder at a nearby mansion; a very talkative black raven; a London locksmith and his family; a man apparently returned from the dead; a hangman who enjoys his job...
Linda Tressel - Anthony Trollope
Linda Tressel - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Linda Tressel lives a lonely life with her domineering aunt, Madame Staubach, in a large house in Nuremberg. Madame Staubach takes in the odious and much older Peter Steinmarc as a lodger and plans that Linda should marry him β entirely against...
War and Peace, Book 17: Second Epilogue - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Book 17: Second Epilogue - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
War and Peace (Russian: ΠΠΎΠΉΠ½Π° ΠΈ ΠΌΠΈΡ, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: ΠΠΎΠΉΠ½Π° ΠΈ ΠΌΠΈΡΡ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the...
Tom of the Raiders - Austin Bishop
Tom of the Raiders - Austin Bishop
- Author: Austin Bishop
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Young Adult historical fiction of a young man joining the Union Army and taking part in the Great Locomotive Chase. (Summary by Brett Downey)...
The Guns of Bull Run - Joseph A. Altsheler
The Guns of Bull Run - Joseph A. Altsheler
- Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
The first volume in the Civil War series, following the adventures of Harry Kenton, who leaves his home in Kentucky. He travels through dangerous territory to South Carolina on a secret mission on the eve of the Civil War. (From Chapter 4) "They...
Dulcibel - Henry Peterson
Dulcibel - Henry Peterson
- Author: Henry Peterson
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Dulcibel is a young, pretty and kind-hearted fictional character charged with Witchcraft during the infamous Salem Witch trials. During this time there is a group of "afflicted girls" who accuse Dulcibel and many others of Witchcraft, and during...
Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope
Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Set against the background of the Irish famine in the 1840βs, the novel tells of the tangled relationships between Clara Desmond, Herbert Fitzgerald and his cousin Owen Fitzgerald. Clara β whose previously βgreatβ family is almost bankrupt β is...
A Candle For Our Lady - Regina Victoria Hunt
A Candle For Our Lady - Regina Victoria Hunt
- Author: Regina Victoria Hunt
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Historical Fiction / Religion
Dark times for British Catholics hung over England in the days of King Henry VIII. Henry, influenced by the hated Thomas Cromwell, fell into opposition with them, suppressing them, and closing religious houses. In that period a famous shrine,...
The Golden Bough - George Gibbs
The Golden Bough - George Gibbs
- Author: George Gibbs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
The eyes of the LΓ©gionnaire, now grown accustomed to the glow of the light, made sure that the figure had not moved, nor was aware of his silent and furtive approach. Two plans of action suggested themselves, one to move behind the foliage to the...
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' - William Hope Hodgson
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' - William Hope Hodgson
- Author: William Hope Hodgson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Historical Fiction
Eighteenth-century sailors adrift in a lifeboat encounter strange lands and weird creatures in their search for home. A creepy tale of nautical adventure. - Summary by Jason Mills...
Red Men And White - Owen Wister
Red Men And White - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Short Stories
These eight stories are made from our Western Frontier as it was in a past as near as yesterday and almost as by-gone as the Revolution; so swiftly do we proceed. They belong to each other in a kinship of life and manners, and a little through the...
Hagar's Daughter. A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice - Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Hagar's Daughter. A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice - Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
- Author: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Hagar's Daughter was first published serially in "The Colored American Magazine" in 1901-1902 by Pauline E. Hopkins, a prominent African-American novelist, journalist, historian, and playwright. The book was described as "a powerful narrative of...
The Spirit of the Border - Zane Grey
The Spirit of the Border - Zane Grey
- Author: Zane Grey
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
This is an early novel by the phenomenally successful author of frontier, western and sports stories. It deals with historical characters and incidents in the Ohio Valley in the late 18th century, especially with the foundation of Gnaddenhutten, a...
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 4, To California and Return - Artemus WARD
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 4, To California and Return - Artemus WARD
- Author: Artemus WARD
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Historical Fiction
Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer and lecturer under the name of Artemus Ward. Like his friend Mark Twain, Browne worked as a type-setter in his youth and in 1858, began publishing a series of letters, essays, and...
The Caves of Fear - Harold L. Goodwin
The Caves of Fear - Harold L. Goodwin
- Author: Harold L. Goodwin
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
Entry in the Rick Brant series by Goodwin under the name John Blaine, which began in 1947. 'Rick and Scotty travel to the Himalayas again, this time to stop nuclear materials from falling into the wrong hands.' says Wikipedia. - Summary by...
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates - Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates - Howard Pyle
- Author: Howard Pyle
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Swashbuckling tales of legendary pirates, buccaneers, and marooners, terrors of the Spanish Main.(Summary by Epistomolus)...
The Clansman, An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan - Thomas Dixon, Jr.
The Clansman, An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan - Thomas Dixon, Jr.
- Author: Thomas Dixon Jr.
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The second book in a trilogy of the Reconstruction era - The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907), this novel was the basis for the 1915 silent movie classic, "The Birth Of A Nation". Within a fictional story, it...
Mrs. Warren's Daughter - Sir Harry Johnston
Mrs. Warren's Daughter - Sir Harry Johnston
- Author: Sir Harry Johnston
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Mrs. Warren's Daughter is a continuation, in novel form, of George Bernard Shaw's controversial play, Mrs. Warren's Profession. In the play, Vivie Warren, an emancipated young woman recently graduated from University, disavows her mother Kitty when...
The Man of Property (Forsyte Saga Vol. 1) - John Galsworthy
The Man of Property (Forsyte Saga Vol. 1) - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
'The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. The Man of Property is the first book in the saga. The 'man of property' of the title is Soames Forsyte, a partner in the...
Marius the Epicurean, Volume 2 - Walter Pater
Marius the Epicurean, Volume 2 - Walter Pater
- Author: Walter Pater
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Ancient
The conclusion of Pater's historico-philosophical novel about a young Roman nobleman's search for purpose and meaning. Set in the time of Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, the book traces its title character's encounters with the stoicism of...
The Key to the Riddle - Margaret S. Comrie
The Key to the Riddle - Margaret S. Comrie
- Author: Margaret S. Comrie
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Religious Fiction
Young Azerole Montoux and her brother Leon find themselves separated from their family by the religious persecutions of 1686. Threatened by the authorities and forced to depend on strangers, they must decide whether they can trust God to make sense...
Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country - Irving Bacheller
Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country - Irving Bacheller
- Author: Irving Bacheller
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country. Having lost both parents and his home in northern Vermont, orphan Willie Brower is taken in by Eben Holden, "Uncle Eb" who transports him westward to save him from being sent to an orphanage. Through the...
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 2 - Samuel Richardson
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 2 - Samuel Richardson
- Author: Samuel Richardson
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, and is the longest real novel in the...
War and Peace, Book 15: 1812-1813 - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Book 15: 1812-1813 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
War and Peace (Russian: ΠΠΎΠΉΠ½Π° ΠΈ ΠΌΠΈΡ, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: ΠΠΎΠΉΠ½Π° ΠΈ ΠΌΠΈΡΡ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the...
Ann Veronica - H. G. Wells
Ann Veronica - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Ann Veronica was a controversial book detailing the development of a naive school girl into a "New Woman". When it was published, the Spectator described it as a "poisonous book ... capable of poisoning the minds of those who read it." Although it...
The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow - Allen French
The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow - Allen French
- Author: Allen French
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Sagas / Historical
Rolf, a youth in early Christian Iceland, loses first his father, then his property, and finally his freedom to the schemes of a greedy neighbor. Outlawed from Iceland, Rolf travels abroad, meeting with shipwreck, enslavement, Viking berserkers, and...
When Knighthood Was in Flower - Charles Major
When Knighthood Was in Flower - Charles Major
- Author: Charles Major
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Set during the Tudor period of English history, When Knighthood Was in Flower tells the tribulations of Mary Tudor, a younger sister of Henry VIII of England who has fallen in love with a commoner. However, for political reasons, King Henry has...
The Tiger of Mysore - G. A. Henty
The Tiger of Mysore - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
During the Indian war with Tippoo Saib, 15 year old Dick Holland and his mother set out from England to find and rescue his father, shipwrecked 6 years earlier, and believed to be held prisoner by the 'Tiger of Mysore'(summary by annise)...
Micah Clarke - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Micah Clarke - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This book tells the story of Micah Clarke's adventures. As a boy he follows his rather romantic notions of what it means to be a soldier and how to find adventure. But over the course of his career, adventure finds him, and it is not always quite as...
