Historical Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 8
Under the Witches' Moon - Nathan GALLIZIER
Under the Witches' Moon - Nathan GALLIZIER
- Author: Nathan GALLIZIER
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The scene is Rome, 935 A.D. Thirty-year-old Tristan, dressed as a pilgrim, overhears a conversation between Basil, the Grand Chamberlain, and Il Gobbo, his assistant. After the two have left, Tristan continues to observe the revelry on the Eve of...
In Exile and Other Stories - Mary Hallock FOOTE
In Exile and Other Stories - Mary Hallock FOOTE
- Author: Mary Hallock FOOTE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Short Stories
Six short stories by Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities of the turn-of-the-century American West. She is famous...
The Belton Estate - Anthony Trollope
The Belton Estate - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Clara Amedroz is the virtuous, intelligent, and quick-witted heroine of this novel. Like all women of her time, she has few options other than to marry. She is lucky enough to have two eligible suitors, and chooses the more urbane and worldly of the...
Echoes of the War - J. M. Barrie
Echoes of the War - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Short stories with dramatic parts about civilian life in London during the First World War. Some humorous moments. By the author of "Peter Pan". ( Summary by JCarson )...
The Spoilers - Rex Beach
The Spoilers - Rex Beach
- Author: Rex Beach
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan to a prominent family and pursued a career as a lawyer before being drawn to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he turned to writing. His first novel,...
Welcome to Spring - Ring Lardner
Welcome to Spring - Ring Lardner
- Author: Ring Lardner
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about sports, marriage, and the theatre. He was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf and F. Scott Fitzgerald,...
Fraternity - John Galsworthy
Fraternity - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A satire of middle-class complacency and artistic aspiration. It is the story of a strange bohemian upper-class love triangle, and of a mystic tract.(Summary by Simon Evers)...
Anna Karenina, Book 3 - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, Book 3 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage to follow her heart and must endure the hypocrisies of society....
The Ladies' Paradise - Émile Zola
The Ladies' Paradise - Émile Zola
- Author: Émile Zola
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Zola's original French publication, Au Bonheur des Dames ("The Ladies' Delight"), published 1882, is the eleventh novel in his Rougon-Macquart series. This English translation by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, was published in 1886. It's a glitzy, fast...
The Black Arrow - A Tale of the Two Roses - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Black Arrow - A Tale of the Two Roses - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The Black Arrow tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of the Roses: how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sedley, and obtains justice for the murder of his father, Sir Harry Shelton. Outlaws inTunstall Forest organized...
In the Year of Jubilee - George Gissing
In the Year of Jubilee - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The Jubilee marks the fiftieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria. Dickensian in its sweeping scope of London life, Jubilee depicts the harsh and disreputable conditions of lower-middle class life at the end of the 19th century. (Introduction by S....
Helen - Maria Edgeworth
Helen - Maria Edgeworth
- Author: Maria Edgeworth
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views,...
True to the Old Flag - G. A. Henty
True to the Old Flag - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
This book tells the story of the American war of Independence from the side of the British. The old flag mentioned in the title is the flag of England. This is a book for young readers, but - as a good book should be - everybody can enjoy it"....
Monsieur Lecoq Part 2: The Honor of the Name - Émile Gaboriau
Monsieur Lecoq Part 2: The Honor of the Name - Émile Gaboriau
- Author: Émile Gaboriau
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Detective Fiction
Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story: Around 11 o'clock, on the evening of Shrove Sunday 18.., close to the old Barrière d'Italie, frightful cries, coming from Mother Chupin's drinking-shop, are heard by a party of...
The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1 - William Harrison Ainsworth
The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1 - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
A romance with the backdrop of the notorious Star Chamber of the English legal system. The Chamber began as purely administrative, but gradually took on more of a judicial role, enforcing the monarch's will when the courts could or would not do so....
The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. Dick Shelton, a nobly-born lad, is on the cusp of manhood, and he is thrust bodily into this stew where...
Padre Ignacio, Or The Song Of Temptation - Owen Wister
Padre Ignacio, Or The Song Of Temptation - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Westerns / *Non-fiction
Padre Ignacio has been the pastor of California mission Santa Ysabel del Mar for twenty years. In 1855 a stranger rides into the mission bringing news and a spiritual crisis. It's really more of a novella than a novel. (Summary by David Wales)...
Australia Felix - Henry Handel RICHARDSON
Australia Felix - Henry Handel RICHARDSON
- Author: Henry Handel RICHARDSON
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The story of Richard Mahony, a doctor trained in Edinburgh who comes to Ballarat in the gold rush of the 1850s. At first he runs a shop but later he marries and returns to medical practice. His story is interwoven with that of his wife's brothers...
Can You Forgive Her? - Anthony Trollope
Can You Forgive Her? - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Historical Fiction
“Can You Forgive Her?” is the first in a series of six Trollope novels dealing broadly with 19th Century English political scene. It introduces the reader to Plantagenet and Glencora Palliser, as they court, marry, and as Plantagenet sets out on his...
The Children of the New Forest - Frederick MARRYAT
The Children of the New Forest - Frederick MARRYAT
- Author: Frederick MARRYAT
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Historical Fiction
The children of Colonel Beverley, a Cavalier officer killed at the Battle of Naseby are believed to have died in the flames when their house, Arnwood, is burned by Roundhead soldiers. However, they escape and are raised by Joseph Armitage, a...
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter “A” on her breast. The scarlet...
The Empty Sack - Basil KING
The Empty Sack - Basil KING
- Author: Basil KING
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The book follows the fortunes of Jennie Follett, a New York artist’s model, and Teddy, her brother. After their father’s dismissal from his lowly position in the bank and his subsequent death, the family struggles financially. In desperation, Teddy...
The Possessed - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Possessed - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Although titled The Possessed in the initial English translation, Dostoyevsky scholars and later translations favour the titles The Devils or Demons. An extremely political book, Demons is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th...
Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini
Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini
- Author: Rafael Sabatini
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a lawyer, politician, actor, lover, and buffoon lead his enemies to call him "Scaramouche" (also called...
The Prime Minister - Anthony Trollope
The Prime Minister - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
The Prime Minister is the fifth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. With Phineas' difficulties resolved, Trollope introduces new characters. A respectable young girl forsakes the man her family had always intended her to marry when she...
I Will Repay - Baroness Orczy
I Will Repay - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
This is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The second Pimpernel book written by Orczy, it comes (chronologically) third in the series and should be read after Sir Percy Leads the Band and before The Elusive Pimpernel.(Summary by Wikipedia)...
Anna Karenina, Book 5 - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, Book 5 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage to follow her heart and must endure the hypocrisies of society....
The Scouts of Stonewall - Joseph A. Altsheler
The Scouts of Stonewall - Joseph A. Altsheler
- Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
In this third book of Joseph Altsheler's Civil War series, Harry Kenton, a lieutenant in the Southern Army, is on scout patrol in the Shenandoah Valley. He has attracted the notice of the great General Stonewall Jackson after his regiment, the...
The Doctor's Wife - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Doctor's Wife - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
This is one of the Victorian “Sensationist” Mary Elizabeth Braddon's many novels (best known among them: “Lady Audley’s Secret”). It is extremely well written, fluid, humorous and, in places, self-mocking: one of the main characters is a Sensation...
Mr. Wicker's Window (Version 2) - Carley DAWSON
Mr. Wicker's Window (Version 2) - Carley DAWSON
- Author: Carley DAWSON
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Historical Fiction
When Christopher Mason walked into Mr. Wicker's antique shop, he had no idea he would soon be embarking on a marvellous journey to China to find a wonderful tree made of jewels. He had no idea that Mr. Wicker was a magician and could travel through...
Robin Hood - Paul CRESWICK
Robin Hood - Paul CRESWICK
- Author: Paul CRESWICK
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
"Well, Robin, on what folly do you employ yourself? Do you cut sticks for our fire o' mornings?" Thus spoke Master Hugh Fitzooth, King's Ranger of the Forest at Locksley, as he entered his house. Robin flushed a little. "These are arrows, sir," he...
Order Number 11 - Caroline Abbot STANLEY
Order Number 11 - Caroline Abbot STANLEY
- Author: Caroline Abbot STANLEY
- Genre: Historical Fiction
General Order No. 11 has been issued by Union General Thomas Ewing in 1863. The goal was to deprive pro-Confederates in western Missouri of power and resources. The consequences are far reaching, still affecting the four counties until this very...
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Version 2) - Baroness Orczy
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Version 2) - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Detective Fiction
In the year 1792, the French Revolution is in the midst of its bloodiest stage. Aristocrats are being executed left and right by the Republic when the guillotine begins to be repeatedly cheated of aristocratic victims due to a series of daring...
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, shame, redemption and patriotism. The plot centers on the years leading up to French Revolution and...
Quo Vadis - Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
Quo Vadis - Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
- Author: Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Sienkiewicz’s epic novel of ancient Rome finds the Empire at the height of her power and splendor, but struggling with the madness and cruelty of the Emperor Nero. A new religion is sweeping across the world, causing many Romans to wonder and...
Gabriel and the Hour Book - Evaleen Stein
Gabriel and the Hour Book - Evaleen Stein
- Author: Evaleen Stein
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Historical Fiction
Brother Stephen has the heart of an artist and wishes to leave the abbey to travel and see the world. However, King Louis has decreed that an "hour book" be made for his bride, Lady Anne, which in turn causes the Abbott to refuse Brother Stephen's...
David Elginbrod - George MacDonald
David Elginbrod - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Historical Fiction
David Elginbrod was George Macdonald's first real success, a novel of Scottish country life. Published in 1862, it was dedicated to the memory of Lady Noel Byron.(Summary from wikipedia)...
The World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia - Eva March Tappan
The World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Poetry / *Non-fiction
This is the third volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a...
The Star of Gettysburg - Joseph A. Altsheler
The Star of Gettysburg - Joseph A. Altsheler
- Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The Army of Northern Virginia, still victorious after three hard years of fighting, capitalize on their victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and a young Harry Kenton, is an eyewitness to the Confederate invasion of the north,...
The Last Three Soldiers - William Henry SHELTON
The Last Three Soldiers - William Henry SHELTON
- Author: William Henry SHELTON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
What if the Confederacy had won the American Civil War? It’s July 1864 and three oh-so-young Union troopers are assigned to a mountaintop in Tennessee to be a link in a chain of flag signalers across a ridge of mountains. They encounter a dizzying...
