Historical Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 13
Captain John Crane, 1800 - 1815 - Thomas Wallace Knox
Captain John Crane, 1800 - 1815 - Thomas Wallace Knox
- Author: Thomas Wallace Knox
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
John and David grew up best of friends, outgoing and full of adventure. Living but miles from the sea west of Boston, right on the cusp of manhood at the end of America’s Revolutionary war, the ocean’s siren song beckoned to both. At the peak of...
Pimpernel and Rosemary - Baroness Orczy
Pimpernel and Rosemary - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
A novel in the Scarlet Pimpernel series that features Peter Blakeney, a descendant of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Peter's adventures take him to Hungary and much intrigue involving his good friend, Rosemary, Nazis, and spies ensue. - Summary by Holly...
The Able McLaughlins - Margaret Wilson
The Able McLaughlins - Margaret Wilson
- Author: Margaret Wilson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
The Able McLaughlins won the Pulitzer Prize for a novel in 1924 in Margaret Wilson's debut work. Aptly described as "Little House on the Prairie - but for adults" the novel follows a group of Scottish families who pioneer the Iowa prairie in the...
For God And Gold - Julian Corbett
For God And Gold - Julian Corbett
- Author: Julian Corbett
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Sir Julian Stafford Corbett was a prominent navy historian and geologist. This semi-autobiographical novel tells about the start: the personal and professional life of a scholar, the excitement of sailing, and joining the navy. - Summary by Stav...
Arabella Stuart - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
Arabella Stuart - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Author: George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Lady Arabella Stuart was an English noblewoman at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At one time considered to be a possible successor to Elizabeth I, the crown eventually went to her cousin, the tyrannical James I. Our story begins in 1603,...
Beau Brocade - Baroness Orczy
Beau Brocade - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Beau Brocade is a historical fiction set in England in the early 1700's. The hero Beau is a wanted highwayman, who takes from the rich to help the poor. - Summary by Deon Gines...
Cedric the Forester - Bernard Gay Marshall
Cedric the Forester - Bernard Gay Marshall
- Author: Bernard Gay Marshall
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
A rollicking juvenile adventure tale, this historical fiction book received the Newbery Honor award in 1922. Set in England during the early 1200s, the scion of a Western Marches noble family relates the many encounters and battles that he faces...
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant - Guy de Maupassant
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Satire / Single Author Collections
Guy de Maupassant was, and is to this day, one of the world's most celebrated short story writers. He famously tackled topics like the Franco-Prussian War and the disillusionment of life and relationships. This collection of his works, containing...
Robert Elsmere - Mary Augusta Ward
Robert Elsmere - Mary Augusta Ward
- Author: Mary Augusta Ward
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Essentially the book covers the life of Robert Elsmere, a boyishly intellectual clergyman. The first part covers his meeting with and eventual marriage to Catherine Leyburn. After a period as a country vicar, Robert’s meetings with the local squire,...
Self-Control: A Novel (version 2) - Mary Brunton
Self-Control: A Novel (version 2) - Mary Brunton
- Author: Mary Brunton
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Laura Montreville is a well-born and religious girl, brought up in Scotland by her widowed father. She is pursued by Colonel Hargrave, a libertine, who makes an offer of marriage which Laura, not knowing any better, declines at first, saying she...
Yellow Butterflies - Mary Raymond Shipman ANDREWS
Yellow Butterflies - Mary Raymond Shipman ANDREWS
- Author: Mary Raymond Shipman ANDREWS
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
The title of this historical fiction could as well have been "A Soldier’s Mother" or “An Unknown Soldier”. There are indeed butterflies, and there is a small boy who grows into a fine, strapping young man who goes to war. But this moving novella...
The House by the Churchyard - Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
The House by the Churchyard - Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
- Author: Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
Murder, mystery, mayhem, romance and relationships. Our classic who-done-it takes place in olde Dublin, Ireland in the village of Chapelizod around the Royal Irish Artillery base. A mysterious skull has been uncovered in the church graveyard. Whose...
White Cockades: An Incident of the "Forty-Five" - Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
White Cockades: An Incident of the "Forty-Five" - Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
- Author: Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
In the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite uprising, the young Andrew Boyd meets a fugitive from the redcoats, a man whom Andrew soon grows to admire. Andrew and his father take the man in, but then the redcoats arrive to search the house... Besides...
The Cliff-Dwellers - Henry Blake FULLER
The Cliff-Dwellers - Henry Blake FULLER
- Author: Henry Blake FULLER
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
Between the former site of old Fort Dearborn and the present site of our newest Board of Trade there lies a restricted yet tumultuous territory through which, during the course of the last fifty years, the rushing streams of commerce have worn many...
Delia Blanchflower - Mary Augusta Ward
Delia Blanchflower - Mary Augusta Ward
- Author: Mary Augusta Ward
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Delia Blanchflower’s father has died, leaving her a considerable inheritance. However, she has become caught up in the militant wing of the Suffragist movement and has come under the spell of Gertrude Marvell, one of the leaders of the movement....
The Mountebank - William John Locke
The Mountebank - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Andrew Lackaday, an English orphan, was born and brought up in a French circus. He becomes a highly skilled mimic and juggler. He plies his trade all round the country in company with his assistant Elodie, a Marseillaise. The Great War comes and he...
Katharine von Bora: Dr. Martin Luther's Wife - Armin Stein
Katharine von Bora: Dr. Martin Luther's Wife - Armin Stein
- Author: Armin Stein
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This is a fictionalized biography of the wife of the reformer Dr. Martin Luther. In the author's words, he hopes that "people may learn to know the wife of its greatest man,—not by name only, but as her husband's 'helpmeet,' in the truest sense of...
The Sworn Brothers, A Tale of the Early Days of Iceland - Gunnar Gunnarsson
The Sworn Brothers, A Tale of the Early Days of Iceland - Gunnar Gunnarsson
- Author: Gunnar Gunnarsson
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This is the story of the close but sometimes contentious relationship of two young Icelandic kinsman who elect to undergo the solemn ceremony of initiation into blood-brotherhood which includes blood sacrifice to the pagan gods, Odin and Thor. In...
Peveril of the Peak - Sir Walter Scott
Peveril of the Peak - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Peveril is one of Scott's Waverley novels series. It is a historical novel set in 1678 in England, and tells a story of the Popish Plot. Peveril is a Cavalier, in love with a Roundhead's daughter, but is accused of involvement with the Popish Plot....
Virgin Soil Volume 2 - Ivan Turgenev
Virgin Soil Volume 2 - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The second volume of Turgenev's last novel sees social change bubbling up into conflict with the established order and interacting with the fates of the characters, testing their resolve and motivations to the limit. The publication being read is...
Soldiers' Pay - William Faulkner
Soldiers' Pay - William Faulkner
- Author: William Faulkner
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Soldiers return from the War to a mixed reception in America. The first novel by one of the 20th century's most poetic writers experimenting in stream of consciousness, and adept at dialogue. - Summary by Czandra...
''Mr Rowl'' - D. K. Broster
''Mr Rowl'' - D. K. Broster
- Author: D. K. Broster
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
Raoul des Sablières, a French parole prisoner in England during the Napoleonic Wars, becomes enmeshed in a complicated tangle where his honour conflicts with his parole, and is sent to prison. Juliana Forrest, for whose sake he broke his parole,...
Jess - H. Rider Haggard
Jess - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
The setting for this novel is the Boer War in South Africa in 1880. This novel is interesting and exciting on several levels: there are complicated love entanglements, evil Machiavellian treachery, political reflection having to do with the ethics...
A Tale of Two Cities (Version 5) - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities (Version 5) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities is a novel that views the eighteenth century French Revolution through the lens of nineteenth century Victorian Romanticism. Dickens tells the story of a wide range of characters in London and Paris whose lives...
Minnie's Sacrifice - Frances E. W. HARPER
Minnie's Sacrifice - Frances E. W. HARPER
- Author: Frances E. W. HARPER
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's death, and there she marries Louis, who is ironically also of mixed parentage. The story revolves around their discoveries and how they deal...
The Age of Innocence (Dramatic Reading) - Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence (Dramatic Reading) - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of a woman plagued by scandal whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and morals of 1870s' New York...
The Spanish Brothers (Dramatic Reading) - Deborah ALCOCK
The Spanish Brothers (Dramatic Reading) - Deborah ALCOCK
- Author: Deborah ALCOCK
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Historical Fiction
Juan and Carlos Meñaya have longed to find their father ever since they were little. Their dream starts to get lost, though, as they grow up and go separate ways. Juan goes off to war and falls under the influence of a Huguenot prisoner while Carlos...
Taking the Bastile - Alexandre Dumas
Taking the Bastile - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Pitou lost his mother when he was small. He was raised by a stern aunt who did not really love him. He starts knowing the world by going to service. How can this man, Pitou the Peasant (as the subtitle of the novel suggests) go on to influence the...
Alice of Old Vincennes - Maurice Thompson
Alice of Old Vincennes - Maurice Thompson
- Author: Maurice Thompson
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This entertaining book of adventure, love and war was a Bestseller in 1900 and 1901. The heroine Alice Roussillon is a brave young woman who grew up in a small town on the Wabash River in Indiana during the revolutionary war. The characters are all...
The Deluge Volume 2 - Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
The Deluge Volume 2 - Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
- Author: Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a three-volume series known to Poles as "the Trilogy," having been preceded by With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i...
The Mill on the Floss (Version 2) - George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss (Version 2) - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver growing up on the river Floss near the town of St. Oggs (a...
The Lion's Brood - Duffield Osborne
The Lion's Brood - Duffield Osborne
- Author: Duffield Osborne
- Genre: Historical Fiction
"Centuries come and go; but the plot of the drama is unchanged, and the same characters play the same parts. Only the actors cast for them are new." For this timeless tale, we are taken back to the Roman forum. With the backdrop of the Punic Wars,...
Cherry and Violet - Anne Manning
Cherry and Violet - Anne Manning
- Author: Anne Manning
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A Tale of the Great Plague. 1666 was a difficult year in London. With its sordid materialism and its coarse handling of things most sacred, not merely does Manning see, as an Englishwoman, the grandeur of its struggles, but she sees its best...
The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Author: George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
The time of French king Louis XIV was a time of religious conflict. His father, Louis XIII had tried to suppress the teachings and followers of Calvin but was thwarted by his ministers. The son took a different path. The king was Catholic, and...
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 11 - Anonymous
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 11 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Historical Fiction
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been...
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 5: The Countess of Charny - Alexandre Dumas
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 5: The Countess of Charny - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
This 5th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins after the fall of the Bastille and the March on Versailles, which forced Louis XVI and his court to be escorted back to Paris. In Paris, political factions battle over the fate of the nation,...
The Pilot - James Fenimore Cooper
The Pilot - James Fenimore Cooper
- Author: James Fenimore Cooper
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
The work, which was admired by Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad for its authentic portrayal of a seafaring life and takes place during the American Revolution, launched a whole genre of maritime fiction. It features a mysterious and almost...
Virgin Soil Volume 1 - Ivan Turgenev
Virgin Soil Volume 1 - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Turgenev's last and longest novel presents the story of a group of young people in late nineteenth century Russia, who because of disillusionment with the country's entrenched traditional hierarchies and power relationships, seek to foment...
The Death Disk - Mark Twain
The Death Disk - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Mark Twain's "Death Disk" was inspired by the historical account of the execution of Colonel John Poyer of Pembroke, Wales on April 21, 1649. A small child was given the responsibility of selecting which of three rebel leaders of a civil uprising...
In Colonial Days - Nathaniel Hawthorne
In Colonial Days - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A collection of British aristocrats, soldiers, gentlemen and ladies gather at the Province House inn, as the American imperial possessions crumble around them. - Summary by The Reader...
