Historical Fiction
Colonel Greatheart
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H. C. Bailey
This is a story of the English Civil War where a witching woman conquerors hearts and marks.
De L'Orme
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George Payne Rainsford James
G.P.R. James was a historian and novelist, who took well-documented historical events and characters and wove stories around minor or imagin…
Muslin
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George Moore and George Logan Moore
Muslin, better known as A Drama In Muslin, is a realistic novel by George Moore. It describes the lives of five Irish girls after their grad…
The Chimney Corner
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Stowe wrote over 30 books. This one is a fascinating collection of her post Civil War musings on a variety of cultural topics, staged mostly…
Saint Joan: Preface
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George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th-century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her…
Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand
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Henry Cadwallader Adams
A young man travels to South Africa to find his Mother and sister. He wants to be a clergyman and a farmer when he arrives there. This story…
Uther and Igraine
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Warwick Deeping
This beautifully written book imagines the lives of Igraine and Uther Pendragon before the legend of Arthur began. (Summary by A. Gramour)
The Deluge Volume 2
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a th…
Blackbeard: Buccaneer
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Ralph Delahaye Paine
Blackbeard: Buccaneer tells the story of the infamous Edward Teach, better known as the pirate Blackbeard. This book is an exciting depictio…
Silver Pitchers: and Independence, A Centennial Love Story
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Louisa May Alcott
Here are 9 engaging short stories from Louisa May Alcott (of Little Women fame), all period pieces, some of them somewhat autobiographical, …
Viviette
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William John Locke
Viviette is a headstrong young girl who is pursued by two brothers: Austin, a headstrong man of the world and a barrister in London, and Dic…
In Colonial Days
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
A collection of British aristocrats, soldiers, gentlemen and ladies gather at the Province House inn, as the American imperial possessions c…
''Mr Rowl''
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D. K. Broster
Raoul des Sablières, a French parole prisoner in England during the Napoleonic Wars, becomes enmeshed in a complicated tangle where h…
Old Mortality
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Sir Walter Scott
Old Mortality is part of the Waverley series by Walter Scott. Set in southwest Scotland in the late 1600s, during the period of the Covenant…
Stella Maris
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William John Locke
Stellamaris is a young paralysed girl who is confined to a bed in the Channel House overlooking the English Channel. She is cared for by her…
The Voyage to Vinland
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James Russell Lowell
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Voyage to Vinland by James Russell Lowell. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Mar…
The Brown Brethren
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Patrick Macgill
The Brown Brethren tells the story of friends and comrades who fought together during World War I on the Western Front. The principal charac…
Atala
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François-René de Chateaubriand
What were the lower Mississippi River, Gulf Coast regions, and Appalachians of North America like in the earliest colonial days? Full of unt…
Kangaroo
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D. H. Lawrence
"Kangaroo" is the nickname of a character in this novel, Benjamin Cooley, who was a charismatic leader in the fascist movement of …
Arachne
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Georg Ebers
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, w…