Historical Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 12
The Castle of Twilight - Margaret Horton Potter
The Castle of Twilight - Margaret Horton Potter
- Author: Margaret Horton Potter
- Genre: Historical Fiction
"Wistfully I deliver up to you my simple story, knowing that the first suggestion of “historical novel” will bring before you an image of dreary woodenness and unceasing carnage. Yet if you will have the graciousness but to unlock my castle door you...
Lady Connie - Mary Augusta Ward
Lady Connie - Mary Augusta Ward
- Author: Mary Augusta Ward
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Constance Bledlow is a beautiful monied 20 year old with the world at her feet. She arrives in Oxford to spend a few months with her impoverished uncle, a University reader, and his family. She conquers Oxford society and sets many hearts aflame,...
The Perfect Tribute - Mary Raymond Shipman ANDREWS
The Perfect Tribute - Mary Raymond Shipman ANDREWS
- Author: Mary Raymond Shipman ANDREWS
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Part 1 of this brief historical fiction is a recounting of the day before and the day of Lincoln's delivery of The Gettysburg Address. Part 2 is an imagining of the late afternoon of the following day. It is a moving tale that illustrates once again...
Marie Antoinette and Her Son - Luise Mühlbach
Marie Antoinette and Her Son - Luise Mühlbach
- Author: Luise Mühlbach
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Marie Antoinette lives a happy life in a glittering court as Queen of France, but that soon changes as the revolution begins. Her son is Louis Charles, and his whole life changes with the death of his parents. But, that life is not what the people...
Tales of a Vanishing River - Earl Reed
Tales of a Vanishing River - Earl Reed
- Author: Earl Reed
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The background of this collection of sketches and stories is the country through which flowed one of the most interesting of our western rivers before its destruction as a natural waterway. This book is not a history. It is intended as an...
Consuelo - George SAND
Consuelo - George SAND
- Author: George SAND
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
This roman à clef follows the musical adventures of Consuelo, a gifted singer under the tutelage of the composer Nicola Porpora. After encountering betrayal in her home city of Venice, she goes to stay with a family of nobles in an isolated castle...
The Conquest - Oscar Micheaux
The Conquest - Oscar Micheaux
- Author: Oscar Micheaux
- Genre: Historical Fiction
"This is the true story of a negro who was discontented and the circumstances that were the outcome of that discontent." While considered a novel, this largely autobiographical story is based on the author's experience as an African-American pioneer...
The Inheritance - Susan Edmonstoune FERRIER
The Inheritance - Susan Edmonstoune FERRIER
- Author: Susan Edmonstoune FERRIER
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life / Historical Fiction
"As the noblest attribute of man, family pride had been cherished time immemorial by the noble race of Rossville. Deep and incurable, therefore, was the wound inflicted on all its members by the marriage of the honorable Thomas St. Clair, the...
Rose Mather: A Tale - Mary Jane HOLMES
Rose Mather: A Tale - Mary Jane HOLMES
- Author: Mary Jane HOLMES
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Fiction merges with history in this novel taking place during the turbulent times of the civil war and the horrors it entailed. Holme's silly, coquettish yet kind-hearted Rose will pull you in from the start. The sweet and pious Annie, the noble Tom...
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 1: Balsamo, The Magician - Alexandre Dumas
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 1: Balsamo, The Magician - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
This is the first volume of Dumas' Marie Antoinette Romances (also called "The Memoirs of a Physician"). This historical fiction chronicles the strange events surrounding the fall of the French monarchy (starting ~1770) and rise of revolutionaries...
In Old Plantation Days - Paul Laurence Dunbar
In Old Plantation Days - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Short Stories
With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern plantation during slavery. The stories focus on the stereotypical portrait of slaves as obedient workers happy...
The Astonishing History of Troy Town - Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
The Astonishing History of Troy Town - Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
- Author: Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A humorous story about some of the extraordinary inhabitants of a British seaside town. - Summary by Simon Evers...
The Forest Lovers - Maurice Henry HEWLETT
The Forest Lovers - Maurice Henry HEWLETT
- Author: Maurice Henry HEWLETT
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
My story will take you into times and spaces alike rude and uncivil. Blood will be spilt, virgins suffer distresses; the horn will sound through woodland glades; dogs, wolves, deer, and men, Beauty and the Beasts, will tumble each other, seeking...
The Blind Brother (Version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Homer Greene
The Blind Brother (Version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Homer Greene
- Author: Homer Greene
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Historical Fiction
A story of repentance and forgiveness set in the times of the the coal mines. Follow a blind boy and his brother determined to get him cured but also determined to live up to a moral code even if that mean years of blindness for Benny. See self...
Prince and Heretic - Marjorie Bowen
Prince and Heretic - Marjorie Bowen
- Author: Marjorie Bowen
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This novel is centered on the Dutch House of Orange, and begins with its prince, William. It is set in the time of the Holy Inquisition, when tensions between the Catholic and Protestant churches dominated....
The Chimney Corner - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Chimney Corner - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Stowe wrote over 30 books. This one is a fascinating collection of her post Civil War musings on a variety of cultural topics, staged mostly as conversations between Christopher Crowfield (Stowe's masculine nome de plume), and his wife, their son...
The Garies and their Friends - Frank Webb
The Garies and their Friends - Frank Webb
- Author: Frank Webb
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life / Historical Fiction
The book which now appears before the public may be of interest in relation to a question which the late agitation of the subject of slavery has raised in many thoughtful minds, viz. — Are the race at present held as slaves capable of freedom,...
The Rough Road - William John Locke
The Rough Road - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The book tells the story of "Doggie" Trevor, who, having been wrapped in cotton wool since babyhood, becomes a snobbish rich dilettante. All this changes as World War I begins and Doggie takes a commission in the Army – with near disastrous results....
The Magnificent Adventure (Version 2) - Emerson Hough
The Magnificent Adventure (Version 2) - Emerson Hough
- Author: Emerson Hough
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
In The Magnificent Adventure-Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman, by Emerson Hough, the author takes us back to the dawning years of the United States of America. To the time of the...
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police - A Tale of the Macleod Trail - Ralph Connor
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police - A Tale of the Macleod Trail - Ralph Connor
- Author: Ralph Connor
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Christian Fiction
Cameron, a young man from Edinburgh, is a university student who is a rising star on the football team. When the big day comes and he nearly fails his team, he doubts he'll ever be good for anything ever again. Things soon take a turn downward and...
The Northern Spy - J. Thomas Warren
The Northern Spy - J. Thomas Warren
- Author: J. Thomas Warren
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The Northern Spy, written in the 1800s, is a lively story about a Union soldier who infiltrates a Confederate battalion in order to aid in the conquering of South Carolina. The novel was very popular, so much so that allegedly Northern Spy apples...
The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 3: The Man in the Iron Mask (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 3: The Man in the Iron Mask (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction
Volume 3 of The d'Artagnan Romances is divided into three parts. In this, the final part, d’Artagnan’s fortune is near its height; having become the illustrious Captain of the Musketeers, he is now the chief defender of King Louis XIV. Fortune has...
The Golem: A legend of old Prague - Rudolf Lothar
The Golem: A legend of old Prague - Rudolf Lothar
- Author: Rudolf Lothar
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Religious Fiction
Rabbi Loeb creates a clay man to house a perfect soul that he hopes will not be blighted by human prejudices. The plan does not go as he hoped... This is one of many stories about the golem, all of which involve Rabbi Loeb (Judah Loew ben Bezalel),...
Heart of Darkness (version 4) - Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (version 4) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
In this powerful novella based on Joseph Conrad's own experiences in the Belgian Congo, Charles Marlow, an experienced seaman, tells a small group of friends about a profoundly disturbing episode in his life where he was employed by a large...
Marietta: A Maid of Venice - Francis Marion Crawford
Marietta: A Maid of Venice - Francis Marion Crawford
- Author: Francis Marion Crawford
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
This swash-buckling, romantic story of Zorzi Ballarin and Angelo Beroviero, master glass-blowers of Murano, Italy in the 1500's, is not entirely fiction. Many of the works of these artizans are preserved in the Museum of Murano, including their...
The Heidenmauer; or, The Benedictines. A Legend of the Rhine - James Fenimore Cooper
The Heidenmauer; or, The Benedictines. A Legend of the Rhine - James Fenimore Cooper
- Author: James Fenimore Cooper
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Religious Fiction
This is a story that is set in 16th century Germany. Characters representing the various classes of the remnants of feudalism and the rising bourgeois class struggle against each other. Placed in the light of the very recent and polarizing...
Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
- Author: Gustave Flaubert
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Sentimental Education (French: L'Éducation sentimentale, 1869) is a novel by Gustave Flaubert, that is considered one of the most influential novels of the 19th century. The story focuses on the romantic life of a young man at the time of the French...
For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem - G. A. Henty
For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Action & Adventure
In all history, there is no drama of more terrible interest than that which terminated with the total destruction of Jerusalem. Had the whole Jewish nation joined in the desperate resistance made, by a section of it, to the overwhelming strength of...
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3 - George MacDonald
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3 - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
’St. George and St. Michael’ is a little-known historical romance telling the story of a young couple who find themselves on opposing sides during the tumultuous years of the English Civil Wars. Volume 3 completes the series. Tensions are rising...
Atala - François-René de Chateaubriand
Atala - François-René de Chateaubriand
- Author: François-René de Chateaubriand
- Genre: Historical Fiction
What were the lower Mississippi River, Gulf Coast regions, and Appalachians of North America like in the earliest colonial days? Full of untamed forests, wild animals, nuts, berries, and Indians. Chateaubriand spent many years exploring the area,...
The Masquerader (Version 2) - Katherine Cecil Thurston
The Masquerader (Version 2) - Katherine Cecil Thurston
- Author: Katherine Cecil Thurston
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
In the London fog, two men bump into each other one night. They are immediately unnerved by their exact resemblance to each other. Jack Chilcote MP is a rising political star and John Loder a man with a thwarted ambition. The plan they jointly hatch...
Taras Bulba; a Tale of the Cossacks - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Taras Bulba; a Tale of the Cossacks - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Author: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Taras Bulba is a romanticised historical novella by Nikolai Gogol set in Russia’s equivalent of America’s wild frontier, what is today Ukraine, a name which means something like “frontier” or “marches”. It was an ill-defined wild border land whose...
Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem - Sutton Griggs
Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem - Sutton Griggs
- Author: Sutton Griggs
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
Imperium in Imperio is a historical fiction novel by Sutton Griggs, published in 1899. The novel covers the life of Belton Piedmont, an educated and disciplined black man in the Jim Crow south and his role in a shadow government of black men...
Ruggles of Red Gap - Harry Leon WILSON
Ruggles of Red Gap - Harry Leon WILSON
- Author: Harry Leon WILSON
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A stuffy class-conscious gentleman's valet is transplanted to the rough uncivilized American northwest, where the rubes and social climbers are duly impressed with his manners and style. Will the American freedom rub off on the Englishman, or will...
Kangaroo - D. H. Lawrence
Kangaroo - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
"Kangaroo" is the nickname of a character in this novel, Benjamin Cooley, who was a charismatic leader in the fascist movement of ex-soldiers who fought in the Australian army in WWII. The story's main character is an international journalist,...
Tattlings of a Retired Politician - Forrest Crissey
Tattlings of a Retired Politician - Forrest Crissey
- Author: Forrest Crissey
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction
"The letters (non-partisan) of Hon. William Bradley, Ex-Governor and former veteran of practical politics, written to his friend and protege Ned who is still busy 'carving a career back in the old state.'" ( F. Crissey) This is a novel filled with...
We Were There at the Normandy Invasion - Clayton Knight
We Were There at the Normandy Invasion - Clayton Knight
- Author: Clayton Knight
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
D-Day: 6 June 1944. The date of the invasion of the Normandy Coast of France by the Allies. This novel gives a different look at that invasion than most of us have ever seen. It tells of a young French boy, André Gagnon, and his exciting adventures...
Short Stories in Prose and Verse - Henry Lawson
Short Stories in Prose and Verse - Henry Lawson
- Author: Henry Lawson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Single Author Collections
Short Stories in Prose and Verse” is Henry Lawson’s first published book (1894); his first published poem appeared in 1887. The volume is a snapshot of his writing style up to the start of his career. His first published poem appeared at age 20, his...
Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
The epigram to this work from Christoher Marlowe applies to the plot of this story: "My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns / Shall with their goat-feet dance the antic hay." The plot follows Huxley and his cohorts in a search for meaning and hope...
Muslin - George Moore
Muslin - George Moore
- Author: George Moore
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Muslin, better known as A Drama In Muslin, is a realistic novel by George Moore. It describes the lives of five Irish girls after their graduation from convent school. Alice Barton, around whom the story revolves, is unfulfilled by the role society...
