Historical Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 9
Men, Women and Guns - Sapper
Men, Women and Guns - Sapper
- Author: Sapper
- Genre: Historical Fiction
World War I stories, as told through the eyes of someone who was there, but leavened with humour and an eye for the ridiculous side of human nature. This is a collection of McNeile's early short stories, drawing on his experiences with the Royal...
Waverley, Volume 2 - Sir Walter Scott
Waverley, Volume 2 - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'). It relates the story of a young dreamer and English soldier, Edward Waverley, who...
Salammbô - Gustave Flaubert
Salammbô - Gustave Flaubert
- Author: Gustave Flaubert
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
After completing the famous Mme Bovary, Flaubert put all his efforts into researching the Punic Wars and completed the lesser known Salammbô. In this volume, Flaubert describes in detail the Mercenary Revolt and the fight of the Mercenaries against...
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel, narrated (occasionally charmingly, always unreliably) by a member of the 18th-century Irish gentry. Redmond...
War and Peace, Book 12: 1812 - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Book 12: 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...
Carmen - Prosper MÉRIMÉE
Carmen - Prosper MÉRIMÉE
- Author: Prosper MÉRIMÉE
- Genre: Historical Fiction
On a trip to Spain in 1830, our narrator recounts his encounters with two strange characters: a thief named Don José Navarro and a beautiful Romani woman named Carmen...little does he know that soon, these two will be entangled in a tumultuous love...
Leonora - Arnold Bennett
Leonora - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Leonora Stanway is 40 and lives a comfortable middle-class life with her unsympathetic and dull husband, John. Her three daughters are rapidly growing up and away and she regrets that her life has become dull, domesticated and meaningless. Arthur...
The Home and the World - Rabindranath Tagore
The Home and the World - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance / *Non-fiction
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo religionist, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th...
Septimus - William John Locke
Septimus - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The book concerns the tangled lives of four people: Zora, a young widow who seeks some purpose in her life; Septimus Dix, an other-wordly but kind-hearted inventor of hopeless things; Clem Sypher, a larger than life businessman who is convinced his...
Clotel, or, The President's Daughter - William Wells BROWN
Clotel, or, The President's Daughter - William Wells BROWN
- Author: William Wells BROWN
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is a novel by William Wells Brown (1814-84), a fugitive from slavery and abolitionist and was published in London, England in December 1853. It is often considered the first African-American novel. This novel...
The Fortune of the Rougons - Émile Zola
The Fortune of the Rougons - Émile Zola
- Author: Émile Zola
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The Fortune of the Rougons (French: La Fortune des Rougon), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monumental twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. In his introduction Zola indicates that this series is intended to...
Windsor Castle, Book 5 - William Harrison Ainsworth
Windsor Castle, Book 5 - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Historical Fiction
Book 5 - Mabel Lyndwood. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During Henry's pursuit of Boleyn, the novel describes other couples, including the Earl of Surrey...
The Cat of Bubastes - G. A. Henty
The Cat of Bubastes - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Historical Fiction
G.A. Henty’s “tale of ancient Egypt” tells the story of Amuba, prince of the Rebu, who is taken captive when his people are conquered by the Egyptians, and then becomes the servant and companion of Chebron, son of the high priest of Osiris. A...
North and South (version 3) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
North and South (version 3) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
North and South is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton where she witnesses the brutal world wrought by the...
The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 1: The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later - Alexandre Dumas
The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 1: The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Volume 3 of The d'Artagnan Romances is divided into three parts. The first begins in 1660, ten years after Volume 2, with d’Artagnan as Lieutenant of the King’s Musketeers. In this post, he is very near to achieving his dream (becoming Captain) and...
The Moon and Sixpence - W. Somerset Maugham
The Moon and Sixpence - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This Maugham novel is based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told by the narrator as he gradually comes to know the main character Charles Strickland, a middle aged stock broker. We follow Strickland from the point where he...
The Thread of Flame - Basil KING
The Thread of Flame - Basil KING
- Author: Basil KING
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Edward wakes up on board a ship crossing the Atlantic, on his return from the Great War – however, he finds that his memory of who he is and where he comes from is only fragmentary.The book follows his fascinating journey back to health and his...
Eric Brighteyes - H. Rider Haggard
Eric Brighteyes - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
The Saga of Eric Brighteyes is the title of an epic viking novel by H. Rider Haggard, and concerns the adventures of its eponymous principal character in 10th century Iceland. Eric Thorgrimursson (nicknamed 'Brighteyes' for his most notable trait),...
The Guns of Shiloh - Joseph A. Altsheler
The Guns of Shiloh - Joseph A. Altsheler
- Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
The Northern Army has just be handed a great defeat at Bull Run and is headed back to Washington, DC. How will the North answer this defeat? Follow our hero, Dick Mason, into the Western campaign to find out. This is the second book in the Civil War...
Diana Tempest - Mary CHOLMONDELEY
Diana Tempest - Mary CHOLMONDELEY
- Author: Mary CHOLMONDELEY
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Colonel Tempest , his wastrel son Archie and beautiful daughter Diana (Di) are dismayed when they are cut out of the will of old Mr Tempest, Colonel Tempest’s brother. All of the Tempest fortune and estates at Overleigh pass to son John. However,...
In the Irish Brigade: A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain - G. A. Henty
In the Irish Brigade: A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Historical Fiction
In this adventure story by the novelist and war correspondent, G.A. Henty, Desmond Kennedy, a young Irishman flees political oppression and religious persecution at home to serve in the French armies of Louis XIV. We join Desmond and his loyal...
Longhead: The Story of the First Fire - C. H. ROBINSON
Longhead: The Story of the First Fire - C. H. ROBINSON
- Author: C. H. ROBINSON
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A fictionalized version of the self-discovery of primitive man, including: fire, cooking, defense and protection, architecture, community, communication, religion, government, and social interaction - Summary by Nick Bulka...
The Dragon and the Raven: Or The Days of King Alfred - G. A. Henty
The Dragon and the Raven: Or The Days of King Alfred - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
During the reign of King Alfred, Danish forces have invaded the English countryside. Although the English try to repulse these attacks, they are overrun by the savagery and sheer numbers of the Danes. One of those deeply touched by these attacks is...
Johnny Reb and Billy Yank - Alexander HUNTER
Johnny Reb and Billy Yank - Alexander HUNTER
- Author: Alexander HUNTER
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Johnny Reb & Billy Yank is an epic novel first published in 1905 by Alexander Hunter, a soldier who served in Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army from 1861 to 1865. The novel is noted for encapsulating most of the major events of the...
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne - William Makepeace Thackeray
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
A classic Victorian novel and a historical novel rolled into one! Read about court and army life during the reign of Queen Anne - a story of Catholic - Protestant intrigue, and the party which aspired to the restoration of Bonny Prince Charlie. And,...
War and Peace, Book 10: 1812 - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Book 10: 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...
Arachne - Georg EBERS
Arachne - Georg EBERS
- Author: Georg EBERS
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Ledscha, living in ancient Egypt, has lost her betrothed and all hope of love. But the gods see otherwise. She now loves a Greek sculptor, who only wanted her for a model, but even that will not happen. She has been replaced by another woman for the...
Eyes Like the Sea - Mór JÓKAI
Eyes Like the Sea - Mór JÓKAI
- Author: Mór JÓKAI
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
He was a painter, a poet, a novelist. He lived during the Hungarian revolution and his love of freedom meant his life was often in peril. She was his first love, this girl with the eyes like the sea. She was at heart noble, good and loving. What an...
Sons of Fire - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Sons of Fire - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life / Historical Fiction
"He was a stranger in Matcham, a 'foreigner' as the villagers called such alien visitors. He had never been in the village before, knew nothing of its inhabitants or its surroundings, its customs, ways, local prejudices, produce, trade, scandals,...
How To Tell A Story, and Other Essays - Mark Twain
How To Tell A Story, and Other Essays - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The complete collection of works using this title. Other versions, including the Project Gutenberg version, have been radically shortened. Mark Twain published several collections of his short stories and essays. This collection, like the others,...
Hamilton - Mary P HAMLIN
Hamilton - Mary P HAMLIN
- Author: Mary P HAMLIN
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Plays
One hundred years before the current hit musical Hamilton, Mary Hamlin wrote this historical play for Broadway with a big actor of the day, George Arliss, as co-author playing the leading role. It was made into a movie in 1931 with Arliss also...
My Ántonia - Willa Sibert Cather
My Ántonia - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: Historical Fiction
My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named Ántonia. The book’s narrator, Jim...
War and Peace, Book 09: 1812 - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Book 09: 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...
The Pioneers - Katharine S. PRICHARD
The Pioneers - Katharine S. PRICHARD
- Author: Katharine S. PRICHARD
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The Pioneers is set against the background of pioneering life in the Gippsland region of Victoria in pre-Federation Australia. Mary and Donald Cameron are free-settlers who make a home in the wilderness and grow a prosperous cattle operation that...
Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport - Lawrence PERRY
Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport - Lawrence PERRY
- Author: Lawrence PERRY
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Newport, of course, means aristocratic families and naval adventures. In this tale, we wonder if the heiress will actually marry the Russian prince, who is of questionable character, or the chauffeur, who would certainly be beneath her station, but...
The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy - Arnold Bennett
The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
The novel opens with Carl Foster, a recently qualified doctor, coming to London to try and make his fortune. He meets a famous tenor, Signor Alresca, who suffers a dreadful injury backstage and Foster tends to him. He thus meets the lead soprano,...
Shoes and Stockings: A Collection of Short Stories - Louisa May Alcott
Shoes and Stockings: A Collection of Short Stories - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
Here are tales of love and war, modesty and frivolity, laughter and tears. Louisa May Alcott wrote many, many short stories. This collection shares but 6/7 of them. (Summary by Carolyn Frances )...
The Pathfinder - The Inland Sea - James Fenimore Cooper
The Pathfinder - The Inland Sea - James Fenimore Cooper
- Author: James Fenimore Cooper
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Natty Bumppo goes by many names: La Longue Carabine, Hawk Eye, Leatherstocking, and in this tale, The Pathfinder. Guide, scout, hunter, and when put to it, soldier, he also fills a lot of roles in pre-Revolution upstate New York. An old friend,...
Mr. Midshipman Easy - Frederick MARRYAT
Mr. Midshipman Easy - Frederick MARRYAT
- Author: Frederick MARRYAT
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
One of the first novel-length pieces of nautical fiction, MR. MIDSHIPMAN EASY (1836) is a funny and easygoing account of the adventures of Jack Easy, a son of privilege who joins the Royal Navy. The work begins as a satire on Jack’s attachment to...
Last Days of Pompeii - Edward BULWER-LYTTON
Last Days of Pompeii - Edward BULWER-LYTTON
- Author: Edward BULWER-LYTTON
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The...
