Historical Fiction
Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion
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Beatrice E. Clay
"Among the stories of world-wide renown, not the least stirring are those that have gathered about the names of national heroes. The &A…
The Island Pharisees
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John Galsworthy
Richard Shelton is wrestling with his conscience. As a member of the upper class at a time when the British Empire is at its height, he sees…
The Head of the House of Coombe
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
While renowned for her beloved children's literature, Frances Hodgson Burnett's talent extended to historical novels. Originally serialized …
The Heidenmauer; or, The Benedictines. A Legend of the Rhine
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James Fenimore Cooper
This is a story that is set in 16th century Germany. Characters representing the various classes of the remnants of feudalism and the rising…
The Village in the Jungle
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Leonard Woolf
Woolf wrote this novel based on his experience as a government agent for British imperialist-controlled Ceylon in the early part of the twen…
Virgin Soil Volume 2
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Ivan Turgenev
The second volume of Turgenev's last novel sees social change bubbling up into conflict with the established order and interacting with the …
The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants
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George Payne Rainsford James
The time of French king Louis XIV was a time of religious conflict. His father, Louis XIII had tried to suppress the teachings and followers…
The Freelands
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John Galsworthy
The Freelands family is a mixture: Tod Freeland is an uncommunicative gentle giant, his wife Kirsteen passionate and free-spoken, Felix is a…
The Forest Lovers
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Maurice Henry Hewlett
My story will take you into times and spaces alike rude and uncivil. Blood will be spilt, virgins suffer distresses; the horn will sound thr…
A Cathedral Singer
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James Lane Allen
New York City in the early 20th century, a boy with an angelic voice, his devoted mother, the great Episcopal Cathedral of Saint John The Di…
Minnie's Sacrifice
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Frances E. W. Harper
Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's death, and there she marries Lou…
At Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt
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G. A. Henty
This is a tale of the French expedition into Egypt led by Napoleon Bonaparte, aimed to establish a French colony in Egypt and to threaten En…
Held Fast For England: A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar
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G. A. Henty
"He is sharp, and does his lessons well. I have no difficulty with him, on that score; but he is a perfect imp of mischief." Young…
The Young Colonists: A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars
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G. A. Henty
In this book, Henty explores the wars of the British empire in Africa. His sympathies may be entirely with the English (as is our young pro…
Cherry and Violet
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Anne Manning
A Tale of the Great Plague. 1666 was a difficult year in London. With its sordid materialism and its coarse handling of things most sacred, …
The Queen's Cup
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G. A. Henty
Follow Frank Mallet, Henty’s gentleman hero, as he aids in putting down the mutiny of the Sepoys of Barrackpore and then comes home to his e…
In Old Plantation Days
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern p…
Marie Antoinette and Her Son
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Luise Mühlbach
Marie Antoinette lives a happy life in a glittering court as Queen of France, but that soon changes as the revolution begins. Her son is Lo…
The Reign of George VI, 1900-1925: A Forecast Written in the Year 1763
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Samuel Madden, Charles Oman and Charles William Chadwick Oman
Imagine a world in which there were no major revolutionary upheavals (the American, French and Russian revolutions did not occur), there was…
Flemington (version 2)
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Violet Jacob
Archie Flemington, a spy in Government service during the 1745 Jacobite rising, is sent to investigate the suspected rebel James Logie. Desp…