Historical Fiction audiobooks page 6

Kaleri-orja on saksalais-sveitsiläinen kirjailijaijan ja pedagogin Heinrich Zschokken lyhyt ja koskettava kertomus, joka sijoittuu 1600 - 1700-luvun Ranskaan. Välimeren rannalla, vuorien ja kauniiden metsien ympäröimänä, on eräs paratiisinkaltainen Hyéres-niminen kaupunki. Luulisi siellä vain onnellisia ihmisiä elävän. Mutta ihmisillä siellä voi olla murheita. Tämä tarina kertoo erään Hyéresiläisen perheen surullisen tarinan. Hyväsydäminen isä-Leonardo nuhtelee samannimistä poika-Leonardoansa ja sillä on kohtalokkaat seuraukset.

This short story by German-Swiss author Heinrich Zschokke, locates at 17th-18th century France. It tells touching story of a man named Leonardo and his fam...

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 Engineers Corps. These are the memoirs which describe the experiences that made him who he was, and gave him his famous name "Sapper". The first half is made up of separate stories, the second half is selected accounts from the life of "Jim Denver" in Ypres and France.

Ellendigen is een vertaling van Les Miserables, een sociale roman, met een sterke moraal. Hugo neemt het in zijn werk op voor de paria’s in de 19e-eeuwse maatschappij en richt in een vlammende aanklacht tegen de samenleving en haar ‘meedogenloze’ wetten. Valjean is de incarnatie van het lijdende proletariaat, die een reeks eindeloze beproevingen moet ondergaan alvorens loutering en dood te vinden. Dit is het vijfde en laatste deel dat vernoemd is naar de hoofdpersoon Jean Valjean.

Edward Everett Hale (1822 – 1909) was an American author, historian and Unitarian clergyman. Hale first came to notice as a writer in 1859, when he contributed the short story "My Double and How He Undid Me" to the Atlantic Monthly. He soon published other stories in the same periodical. His best known work was "The Man Without a Country", published in the Atlantic in 1863 and intended to strengthen support in the Civil War for the Union cause in the North. Though the story is set in the early 19th century, it is an allegory about the upheaval of the American Civil War. As in some of his other non-romantic tales, he employed a minute realism which led his readers to suppose the narrative ...

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 centuries. He became Asia’s first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Home and the World is a 1916 novel, set in the estate of the rich Bengali noble Nikhil. He lives happily with his beautiful wife Bimala until the appearance of his friend and radical revolutionist, Sandip.

Sandip, a passionate and active man, is a contradiction to the peace-loving and somewhat passive Nikhil. He easily attracts ...

Het wereld beroemde verhaal van Willem Tell door Pieter Louwerse opnieuw verteld.

Volgens de legende was Uilenspiegel een deugniet die vrij als een vogel in de zestiende eeuw door de Nederlanden trok en iedereen voor de gek hield met zijn streken. Uilenspiegel wordt bijgestaan door zijn goedmoedige dikke vriend Lamme Goedzak en zijn vriendin Nele. Volgens de legende heeft Tijl behalve zijn schelmenreputatie ook de status van verzetsheld tegen de Franse bezetting van de Nederlanden in de 16e eeuw. Hiermee kent de figuur in Vlaanderen nu de reputatie van "geest van Vlaanderen". (Naar Wikipedia)
De legende van Tijl Uilenspiegel werd voor het eerst (in het Frans) opgetekend door Charles de Coster in 1867. Het boek werd vele malen in het Vlaams vertaald, op Project Gut...

This recording is in Hebrew.

Stories included:
רבי דב (Rabbi Dov)
שני תרנגולים (Two Cocks)
פסח שנשבת (Pesach Celebration Spoiled)
יוסל הגנן (Yosel the Gardener)
ספר הכפרות (Book of Atonement)
חברבר החצרוני (The Dog Havarbar)
שימלה (Shimele)
פסח מוקדם (Early Pesach)
הפילוסוף (The Philosopher)
האשכנזי (The German Jew)
האוצר (The Treasure)
בשביל צנון אחד (For One Radish)
עלילת דם (Blood Libel)

Sholem Aleichem was the pen name of Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, a leading Yiddish author and playwright. Sholem Aleichem was born into a Hasidic family in Pereyaslav and grew up in the nearby shtetl of Voronko, in...

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, Sergeant Dunham of the 55th Regiment of Foot, asks him to guide his daughter through the wilderness to the fort at Oswego where Dunham serves. With the French engaging native Indian allies against the British and the Yankee colonists, such a journey is far from safe.

Dunham has a plan in mind – to see his daughter Mable married off to the most redoubtable frontiersman and marksman in the territory, who is Pathfinder himself. But as an attr...

This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph Andrews. It is a satire of Walpole that draws a parallel between Walpole and Jonathan Wild, the infamous gang leader and highwayman. He implicitly compares the Whig party in Parliament with a gang of thieves being run by Walpole, whose constant desire to be a “Great Man” (a common epithet for Walpole) should culminate only in the antithesis of greatness: being hanged.