Historical Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 3
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - Lew Wallace
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - Lew Wallace
- Author: Lew Wallace
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator which is taken to be intentional. He is seized and sent to the fleet as a galley-slave, while his family is...
The Gold Sickle - Eugène Sue
The Gold Sickle - Eugène Sue
- Author: Eugène Sue
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The Gold Sickle; or, Hena the Virgin of the Isle of Sen. A Tale of Druid Gaul is the first part of Eugène Sue's The Mysteries of the People; or, History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages, in which he intended to produce a comprehensive...
The Eustace Diamonds - Anthony Trollope
The Eustace Diamonds - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Historical Fiction
Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace, is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. While clever and beautiful, Lizzie has several character flaws; the greatest of these is an almost pathological...
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Historical Fiction
The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreordained land of romance. In all ages and with all sea-going races there has always been something especially...
Louise de la Valliere - Alexandre Dumas
Louise de la Valliere - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues! The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is the last of the...
Callista - John Henry Newman
Callista - John Henry Newman
- Author: John Henry Newman
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Religious Fiction
Callista, A Tale of the Third Century, was written by John Henry Newman, who was a scholarly and personable Anglican theologian who became a Catholic priest and cardinal, bringing a good number of Protestant friends along with him into the Roman...
A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
- Author: Daniel Defoe
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The novel is a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The book is told roughly chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings....
The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw - Frances Milton Trollope
The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw - Frances Milton Trollope
- Author: Frances Milton Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The novel begins with the arrival of a family staking a claim in the black delta of the Deep South. Whitlaw is a brutish sort who bullies his cowering wife into working herself to death. Shortly after giving birth to a strapping man-child, the wife,...
Bonaventure, A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana - George Washington CABLE
Bonaventure, A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana - George Washington CABLE
- Author: George Washington CABLE
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This is a gentle, delightful story of life and love on the bayoux of Acadian Louisiana during the latter half of the 19th century. Bonaventure is a Creole raised among the Acadians. He loves learning, and through his calling as a teacher, and his...
The House with the Green Shutters - George Douglas BROWN
The House with the Green Shutters - George Douglas BROWN
- Author: George Douglas BROWN
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Satire
The House with the Green Shutters is a novel by the Scottish writer George Douglas Brown, first published in 1901 by John MacQueen. Set in mid-19th century Ayrshire, in the fictitious town of Barbie which is based on his native Ochiltree, it...
Beric the Briton: a Story of the Roman Invasion - G. A. Henty
Beric the Briton: a Story of the Roman Invasion - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Historical Fiction
My series of stories dealing with the wars of England would be altogether incomplete did it not include the period when the Romans were the masters of the country. The valour with which the natives of this island defended themselves was acknowledged...
A Knight of the White Cross - G. A. Henty
A Knight of the White Cross - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Adventure, pirates, a young orphan finds a place with a legendary order of knights. Fighting on sea and land to defend his people from barbaric slavers. Summary by Peter Strahm...
War and Peace, Book 01: 1805 - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Book 01: 1805 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, 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...
Red Pottage - Mary CHOLMONDELEY
Red Pottage - Mary CHOLMONDELEY
- Author: Mary CHOLMONDELEY
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The book follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not...
The Traitor - Thomas Dixon, Jr.
The Traitor - Thomas Dixon, Jr.
- Author: Thomas Dixon Jr.
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Dixon lived through Reconstruction, and believed it ranked with the French Revolution in brutality and criminal acts. The Traitor (1907), the final book in his trilogy which also includes The Leopard’s Spots (1902), and The Clansman (1905), spans a...
Dead Souls - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Dead Souls - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Author: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души) by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of 19th-century Russian literature. Gogol himself saw it as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book as a...
Christmas at Thompson Hall - Anthony Trollope
Christmas at Thompson Hall - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Historical Fiction
"A Mid-Victorian Christmas Tale"; tells of a night time encounter between relatives who had never before met, resulting in minor injuries, embarassment, and Trollope's usual 'nice' social interactions. (Summary by Arnold Banner)...
The Great Shadow - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Great Shadow - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
Set in an English-Scottish border village during the waning days of the Napoleonic era, this adventure story introduces us to Jock Calder, whose quiet way of life is shattered when a mysterious stranger steps ashore near his home. The stranger...
A Deal in Wheat and other Stories of the New and Old West - Frank Norris
A Deal in Wheat and other Stories of the New and Old West - Frank Norris
- Author: Frank Norris
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
This collection of Frank Norris' stories was published after his death in 1902. These stories range in topic from the machinations of the commodities market in Chicago in "A Deal in Wheat" to a desperate race for love in "The Riding of Felipe." "A...
In Freedom's Cause - G. A. Henty
In Freedom's Cause - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Another stirring tale from the master of historical fiction set in the time of Robert Bruce and William Wallace and their struggle for Scotland's independence. (Summary by Annise)...
Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril - G. A. Henty
Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
G. A . Henty was a prolific writer of historical fiction for young adults. In this collection of shorter stories we visit Malay pirates, have a couple of tales of India, a shipwreck off the Channel Islands and a bursting dam in California, and...
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Short Stories
Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim Crow laws on African Americans and white Americans of the South. Many of Chesnutt's characters are of...
The Pharaoh and the Priest - Bolesław PRUS
The Pharaoh and the Priest - Bolesław PRUS
- Author: Bolesław PRUS
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The Pharaoh and the Priest (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was the sole historical novel by an author who had earlier disapproved of historical novels on the ground that they inevitably...
The Great Gold Rush: A Tale of the Klondike - William Henry Pope JARVIS
The Great Gold Rush: A Tale of the Klondike - William Henry Pope JARVIS
- Author: William Henry Pope JARVIS
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Modern (19th C)
Canadian journalist William Jarvis' gently fictionalized work recounts many of the countless fascinating tales of the Klondike Gold Rush in Canada's Yukon. (Introduction by Cathy Barratt)...
War and Peace, Book 14: 1812 - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Book 14: 1812 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, 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...
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial. Like most of Dickens' work, the book is used to call the public's attention to various contemporary social evils, including the workhouse, child labour and...
The Count of Monte Cristo (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838 (from just before the Hundred Days through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France). The historical setting is a fundamental...
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 1 - George MacDonald
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 1 - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
’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. Tensions are rising between king and parliament, the...
Anne of Geierstein, Volume 2 - Sir Walter Scott
Anne of Geierstein, Volume 2 - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Anne of Geierstein, or The Maiden of the Mist (1829) is an adventure and romance novel by Sir Walter Scott. It is set in Central Europe, mainly in Switzerland, shortly after the Yorkist victory at the Battle of Tewkesbury (1471). It covers the...
The Amazing Interlude - Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Amazing Interlude - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
It is the early days of The Great War. As the curtain rises, Sara Lee is sitting by the fire in her aunt and uncle’s home, knitting a baby afghan. Her beau’s name is Harvey. He has his eye on a little house that is just perfect for two and he will...
The Tavern Knight - Rafael Sabatini
The Tavern Knight - Rafael Sabatini
- Author: Rafael Sabatini
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
Follow the exploits of Sir Crispin Galliard, also known as The Tavern Knight, in his defence of the King of England against Cromwell and his Puritan Entourage. (Summary by Ric Cornwall)...
Lady Sybil's Choice - Emily Sarah HOLT
Lady Sybil's Choice - Emily Sarah HOLT
- Author: Emily Sarah HOLT
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Christian Fiction
This historical novel is set in the 1100s in France and Jerusalem, following the First Crusade. Part of the story of Guy of Lusignan (a real historical character) is told through the eyes of his fictional sister, Elaine. Guy travels to the Holy Land...
A Little Maid of Province Town - Alice Turner CURTIS
A Little Maid of Province Town - Alice Turner CURTIS
- Author: Alice Turner CURTIS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Historical Fiction
Plucky eight year old Anne Nelson, living in Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod, is determined to bring the Revolutionary War to an end so that she can be reunited with her soldier father. Will she succeed in carrying an important message from...
Through the Fray - G. A. Henty
Through the Fray - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Ned Sankey is a quick-tempered, strong-willed boy during the Luddite riots in Yorkshire. The happy times at the beginning of the story are soon marred by the death of his father. From there things only get worse. When things take a turn for the...
The Daughter of the Sioux - Charles KING
The Daughter of the Sioux - Charles KING
- Author: Charles KING
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Charles King was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He was the son of Civil War general Rufus King and great grandson of Rufus King, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated from West point in 1866 and...
The Scottish Chiefs - Jane PORTER
The Scottish Chiefs - Jane PORTER
- Author: Jane PORTER
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
An adventure novel about William Wallace, one of the most popular books ever written by Jane Porter. The French version was even banned by Napoleon, and the book has remained very popular with Scottish children, but is equally enjoyable for adults....
Sir Nigel - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Nigel - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Historical Fiction
By 1348 the House of Loring has fallen on hard times. Together, the Black Death and the greedy monks of Waverley have bled away all of the Loring wealth. Even the manor house will have to go to pay their debts.Then a chance encounter with the King...
Iola Leroy - Frances E. W. HARPER
Iola Leroy - Frances E. W. HARPER
- Author: Frances E. W. HARPER
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This is the story of Iola Leroy, a free-born, mixed-race woman who passed as white. Her true racial identity eventually discovered, she was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Later freed by the Union Army, she journeyed to find others of her family...
The Brethren - H. Rider Haggard
The Brethren - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Historical Fiction
Set in the days of the Crusaders, this books tells of a young maiden named Rosamund, and her twin cousins. Godwin is the grey eyed thoughtful man, and Wulf is the blue eyed warrior. They are both knights of England and they are both in love with...
Ben Hur (Dramatic Reading) - Lew Wallace
Ben Hur (Dramatic Reading) - Lew Wallace
- Author: Lew Wallace
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Historical Fiction / Christian Fiction
In this dramatic reading of the classic epic Ben Hur, rediscover the wonder of three wise men who travel through the wilderness together. Thirty years later, Judah ben Hur accidentally looses a tile upon the head of the Roman governor and is...
