Historical Fiction audiobooks

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina is a novel by Russian author Graf Leo Tolstoy, which is regarded as pinnacle of realistic fiction. This novel portrays the adulteries in the then aristocratic Russian society through lead character Anna who is married unhappily to a Government employee Karenin...

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

A tale of two cities is the one of the only two historical fiction works of Charles Dickens. The uncertain life during French revolution, its reflection in England, the vengeance over aristocrats and victimization of innocent aristocrats have been explored intimately in this novel...

War and Peace

by Graf Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace written by Graf Leo Tolstoy tells the story of five aristocratic families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys, the Rostovs, the Kuragins and the Drubetskoys—and the entanglements of their personal lives with the then contemporary history of 1805 to 1813, principally Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812...

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist is a fiction novel written by Charles Dickens about many social issues specifically about child labor, labor laws and recruiting children for crimes. This novel narrates the life of Oliver Twist, an Orphan who is brought up in a baby farm. He loses the status of child when he turned nine and had to work for his bread and butter at a we..

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin portrayed the horrors of slavery and ignited need for abolition. Banning of this novel only fueled the theme of it and opened the way for American Civil War. Slaves Uncle Tom and Eliza lead reasonably peaceful life under their master Arthur Shelby, who owns a farm in Kentucky. His farming losses force..

North and South

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's fictional novel North and South is a romantic love story set in the fictional industrial town Milton located in the South of England. The protagonist Margaret Hale, a young women who has sympathy towards working class returns to her home town Milton. Contrast to her expectations the industrialization did not create bett..

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer's magnum opus The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories which portrayed 14th century English society and the Church. The author present the tales as part of the story telling contest participated by a group of pilgrims during their travel from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. Though the ..

My Antonia

by Willa Cather

My Antonia is a historical romance written by American novelist Willa Cather set in the fictional town in Nebraska. After death of his parents Jim Burden moves to Nebraska to live with his grand parents and pursue higher studies. During the travel he meets a Bohemian family and falls in love with Antonia. The transformation of Jim from childhood to..