Historical Fiction
Fortune's Fool
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Rafael Sabatini
This novel follows the adventures of the handsome but impecunious Colonel Randal Holles, as he seeks to escape the misfortunes of his past. …
By the Marshes of Minas
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Sir Charles G. D. Roberts and Charles G. D. Roberts
The Acadians around the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada, were removed by the British forcibly, leading to a French presence in several E…
The Underdogs
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Mariano Azuela
A historical, revolutionary novel from a first-person narration of the Mexican Revolution in the 1910s. The author was a military medic …
The Primitive
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Chester Himes
A nerve-twisting novel of passion and destruction (Summary by a literary critic)
Gaspar Ruiz
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Joseph Conrad
This story takes place during the wars of South American independence against Spanish rule. Gaspar Ruiz, a former Spanish soldier thrust int…
A Dream of John Ball
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William Morris
A Dream of John Ball recounts a dream of being transported back in time to 1381 during the Peasants' Revolt as John Ball and an army of peas…
The Rover
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Joseph Conrad
Possessed "of a passion weary of itself", elderly ex-privateer Peyrol is driven by "a sudden impulse of scorn, of magnanimity…
The Rush for the Spoil
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Émile Zola
Book Two of Zola's 20-volume Rougon-Macquart Cycle. "The Rush for the Spoil" ("La Curee") concerns Aristide Siccard (on…
From the Life of a Good-For-Nothing
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Joseph Von Eichendorff
The main character leaves his parental home to earn his own livelihood. During his journey, he falls in love with Aurelie but believes she i…
Sylvia's Lovers
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Sylvia Robson is a beautiful young woman living on a farm in Yorkshire at the end of the 18th century. Many love and are loved by her, most …
Pan Michael
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
This is the third part of the Sienkiewicz trilogy. It is loosely based on the politics of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.It is better kn…
Lord Montagu's Page
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George Payne Rainsford James
A young man is crossing the English Channel bound for France. It is obviously not his first such trip, but who is he and what is his errand?…
Moonraker
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F. Tennyson Jesse
Young Jackie runs away to sea and before long his ship is captured by pirates. Now sailing with the Moonraker and its captain, Jacky reaches…
The Vengence of the Gods
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William Pickens
Although slavery was abolished in the United States with the ratification of the 13th Amendment on December 6, 1865, its cancerous tendrils …
The Cloister and the Hearth
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Charles Reade
Set in the 15th century, the Cloister and the Hearth is a story Gerald Eliassoen, a young scribe and illuminator, who travels through seven …
Tattlings of a Retired Politician
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Forrest Crissey
"The letters (non-partisan) of Hon. William Bradley, Ex-Governor and former veteran of practical politics, written to his friend and pr…
The Forged Note
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Oscar Micheaux
This novel investigates the black urban community of the early twentieth century, highlighting the base degradation and violence there. But …
Millbank
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Mary Jane Holmes
Here is Millbank! The only fiction book that the Ingalls of Little House fame owned. It follows the story of Roger Irving, and what he doe…
The Fifth Queen Crowned
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Ford Madox Ford
This is the final book of Ford's The Fifth Queen trilogy, a series of historical novels presenting a fictionalized version of the life of Ka…
The Watsons
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Jane Austen and L. Oulton
The Watsons is one of two novels that Jane Austen left unfinished at her death in 1817. The premise of The Watsons was known to Austen’s fam…