Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Historical

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Title: Scarlet Carnation: A Novel

Author: Laila Ibrahim

Narrator: Bahni Turpin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Release date: April 1, 2022

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In an early twentieth-century America roiling with racial injustice, class divides, and WWI, two women fight for their dreams in a galvanizing novel by the bestselling author of Golden Poppies. 1915. May and Naomi are extended family, their grandmothers’ lives inseparably entwined on a Virginia plantation in the volatile time leading up to the Civil War. For both women, the twentieth century promises social transformation and equal opportunity. May, a young white woman, is on the brink of achieving the independent life she’s dreamed of since childhood. Naomi, a nurse, mother, and leader of the NAACP, has fulfilled her own dearest desire: buying a home for her family. But they both are about to learn that dreams can be destroyed in an instant. May’s future is upended, and she is forced to rely once again on her mother. Meanwhile, the white-majority neighborhood into which Naomi has moved is organizing against her while her sons are away fighting for their country. In the tumult of a changing nation, these two women—whose grandmothers survived the Civil War—support each other’s quest for liberation and dignity. Both find the strength to confront injustice and the faith to thrive on their chosen paths.

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Title: [German] - Starbuck: Der Rebell

Series: #1 of [German Edition] The Starbuck Chronicles

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: Johannes Quester

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Release date: March 22, 2022

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Nathaniel Starbuck ist Sohn eines überaus frommen Pastors aus Boston. Der Vater hasst die Südstaaten und er hasst die Sünde. Aber Nate liebt die Frauen, und nach einem Skandal weiß er keinen Ausweg, als zu seinem Studienfreund Adam nach Virginia zu fliehen. Krieg liegt in der Luft, und beinahe lynchen die braven Bürger von Richmond den jungen Mann aus dem Norden als Spion. Gerettet wird Nate von Adams Vater: Washington Faulconer ist ein reicher Mann: Er hat Land und Geld genug, um ein eigenes Regiment aufzustellen. Und Nate wird aus Bewunderung erst Offizier, dann Kriegsheld, am Ende aber zum erbitterten Feind seines Gönners ...Bernard Cornwells Historienreihe aus dem amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg

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Title: Karitas Untitled

Author: Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir

Narrator: Anita Briem

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 3 minutes

Release date: March 1, 2022

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A portrait of an artist trapped by convention and expectations but longing for the chaos that can set her free. Growing up on a farm in early twentieth-century rural Iceland, Karitas Jónsdóttir, one of six siblings, yearns for a new life. An artist, Karitas has a powerful calling and is determined to never let go of her true being, one unsuited for the conventional. But she is powerless against the fateful turns of real life and all its expectations of women. Pulled back time and again by design and by chance to the Icelandic countryside—as dutiful daughter, loving mother, and fisherman’s wife—she struggles to thrive, to be what she was meant to be. Spanning decades and set against a breathtaking historical canvas, Karitas Untitled, an award-winning classic of Icelandic literature, is a complex and immersive portrait of an artist’s conflict with love, family, nature, and a country unaccustomed to an untraditional woman—but most of all, with herself and the creative instincts she has no choice but to follow.

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Title: A Train to Moscow: A Novel

Author: Elena Gorokhova

Narrator: Elizabeth Knowelden

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Release date: March 1, 2022

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In post–World War II Russia, a girl must reconcile a tragic past with her hope for the future in this powerful and poignant novel about family secrets, passion and loss, perseverance and ambition. In a small, provincial town behind the Iron Curtain, Sasha lives in a house full of secrets, one of which is her own dream of becoming an actress. When she leaves for Moscow to audition for drama school, she defies her mother and grandparents and abandons her first love, Andrei. Before she leaves, Sasha discovers the hidden war journal of her uncle Kolya, an artist still missing in action years after the war has ended. His pages expose the official lies and the forbidden truth of Stalin’s brutality. Kolya’s revelations and his tragic love story guide Sasha through drama school and cement her determination to live a thousand lives onstage. After graduation, she begins acting in Leningrad, where Andrei, now a Communist Party apparatchik, becomes a censor of her work. As a past secret comes to light, Sasha’s ambitions converge with Andrei’s duties, and Sasha must decide if her dreams are truly worth the necessary sacrifice and if, as her grandmother likes to say, all will indeed be well.

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Title: [German] - Der Feind: Erzählungen

Author: Erich Maria Remarque

Narrator: Henner Quest

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Release date: June 3, 2021

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Gesammelte Erzählungen von Erich Maria Remarque zum Ersten Weltkrieg. Inhalt: Jürgen Tamen • Der junge Lehrer • Der Feind • Schweigen um Verdun • Karl Broeger in Fleury • Josefs Frau • Die Geschichte von Annettes Liebe • Das seltsame Schicksal des Johann Bartok • 'Ich hab die Nacht geträumet ' • Unterwegs 'Der Feind' ist eine Sammlung der Erzählungen Erich Maria Remarques über die Zeit im und nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Sie erzählen von erschütternden menschlichen Schicksalen – von erwachsenen Männern, die sich an der Front heimwehgeplagt in den Schlaf weinen, von friedlichen Momenten mit dem Feind, die tödliche Folgen haben, von traumatisierten Kriegsheimkehrern und ihren starken Frauen – von Tod und Schrecken, aber auch von Freundschaft und Liebe. 'Die Schwierigkeit mit dem Krieg ist, dass die Leute, die ihn wollen, nicht erwarten, in ihm zu sterben. Und die Schwierigkeit mit unserer Erinnerung ist, dass sie vergisst und verändert und verfälscht, um zu überleben. Sie macht den Tod zu einem Abenteuer, wenn der Tod dich verfehlt. Aber der Tod ist kein Abenteuer: Töten ist der Sinn des Krieges, – nicht Überleben.'

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Title: [German] - Die Bildhauerin: Mit Rodin begeht Camille Claudel neue Wege, doch ihre Liebe droht zu scheitern

Author: Pia Rosenberger

Narrator: Hannah Baus

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Release date: April 12, 2021

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

'Ich fordere lautstark die Freiheit!' Camille Claudel Muse, Aktmodell, Bildhauerin – Camille Claudel war einer der bedeutendsten Künstlerinnen des 19. Jahrhunderts, die sich von gesellschaftlichen Zwängen befreite und sich in einer männlichen Disziplin durchsetzte. Paris, 1881. Die siebzehnjährige Camille Claudel weiß schon früh, was sie will: Bildhauerin werden. Doch als Frau bleibt ihr ein Studium an der École des Beaux-Arts verschlossen. Gemeinsam mit drei Freundinnen mietet sie ein Atelier und stürzt sich in ein Leben der Bohème. Schon bald erregt sie mit ihren Plastiken die Aufmerksamkeit des viel älteren Auguste Rodin. Dieser protegiert und unterrichtet sie, Camille wird zu seiner unentbehrlichen Mitarbeiterin – und schließlich auch zu seiner Geliebten. Doch sie wünscht sich mehr, als nur eine seiner Musen zu sein. Die Geschichte ihres Lebens mit vielen Größen des Fin de Siècle wie Auguste Rodin, Claude Debussy, Alfred Boucher, Paul Claudel, Jessie Lipscomb u. v. a. - kenntnisreich und emotional erzählt.

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Title: The Brigadier's Daughter

Author: Paul Callan

Narrator: Roger Jenkins

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Release date: January 11, 2020

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The one woman he will never forget… Jin, a sensitive kampong boy with an artistic bent, is often found sketching hornbills in the jungle. Stephanie is the Eurasian daughter of an uncompromising brigadier, born into a world of racial and economic privilege. Their torrid affair, set in pre-merger Malaya, must be kept hidden at all costs. But the fragile relationship between these star-crossed lovers is threatened by a single secret—and a moment of thoughtlessness that will echo for decades. The Brigadier's Daughter is a tale of young love and hard choices.

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Title: [Spanish] - Reinas pero desdichadas

Author: Eduardo Lozano Torres

Narrator: ángel Del Río

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Release date: October 2, 2019

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

La desdichada vida de las seis esposas del rey Enrique VIII de Inglaterra, un personaje tan conocido como controvertido. Estas mujeres cumplieron con el sueño universal de ser reinas, pero sus experiencias dramáticas y escabrosas las llevaron en contravía de ese ideal. Una obra muy entretenida y narrada con sencillez y prolijidad para que el gran público conozca la apasionante historia de estas seis desventuradas mujeres y de cómo la dinastía Tudor manejó el poder en Inglaterra durante ciento dieciocho años.

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Title: [Spanish] - Escucha, corazón

Author: María Eugenia Lorenzini

Narrator: Sophie Gomez

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Release date: June 30, 2019

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

María Eugenia Lorenzini en 'Escucha , corazón' logra captar el encanto y la frescura de la oralidad de la radio, transmite esa sensación de que se está escuchando. Lorenzini nos introduce en el ambiente y en la época del radioteatro. Intercala las transmisiones de Rocío del Alba, un radioteatro totalmente romanticón-trágico-optimista, con la vida de los actores de la producción. En especial la de María Graciela, quien interpreta a la sufrida Rocío. Radioteatro y vida corren no solo paralelas en el formato del libro; también lo hacen sus historias, o más bien, la historia de María Graciela hasta tal punto que ella pierde la capacidad de separar su vida ficticia de la real. El drama radial lleno de amor, secretos y traiciones parecerá salirse del librero cuando la actriz perciba que su vida se está pareciendo cada día más a la de la mujer que interpreta. La vida de la protagonista se completa gracias a las escenas del radioteatro que escuchamos; y este logra espesor como consecuencia de las experiencias de la protagonista y sus compañeros. Escucha, corazón es un texto breve, bien contruido, con un protagónico femenino que no es encasillado ni construido desde el estereotipo; lo que resalta teniendo en cuenta que el tiempo de la narración es una época marcadamente opresiva de la mujer. Una novela que atrapa por lo novedoso de la trama, lo creíble de sus personajes y, algo más: logra armar un cuadro de costumbres de la época con la presencia de los mismos males del presente.

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Title: Sea Glass

Author: Anita Shreve

Narrator: Judith Ann Gantly

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Release date: November 1, 2005

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

With all the narrative power and emotional immediacy that have made her novels acclaimed international bestsellers, Anita Shreve unfolds a richly engaging tale of marriage, money, and troubled times-the story of a pair of young newlyweds who, setting out to build a life together in a derelict beach house on the Atlantic coast, soon discover how threatening the world outside their front door can be.