Historical Fiction

Max Havelaar

Read by Anna Simon


Multatuli


“Max Havelaar, of de koffij-veilingen der Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij” is in 1860 geschreven door Multatuli (pseudoniem van Eduard Dou…

The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow

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Allen French


Rolf, a youth in early Christian Iceland, loses first his father, then his property, and finally his freedom to the schemes of a greedy neig…

Fabiola or The Church of the Catacombs

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Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Wiseman


This historical novel is set in Rome in the early 4th century AD, during the time of the cruel persecution of Christians under the Emperor D…

Mendizábal

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Benito Pérez Galdós


Segunda Novela de la tercera serie de los Episodios Nacionales, describe la España desgarrada por la Primera Guerra Carlista y la Reg…

By Right of Conquest; Or, With Cortez in Mexico

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G. A. Henty


In perhaps the most audacious military enterprise in the history of human conquest, Cortez, with only a few hundred men, conquered a civili…

Los Miserables: Tomo IV

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Victor Hugo


Mario, con ayuda de Eponine, consigue encontrar a Cosette viviendo con Juan Valjean en la calle Plumet. Se inicia un apasionado idilio entre…

Through the Fray

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G. A. Henty


Ned Sankey is a quick-tempered, strong-willed boy during the Luddite riots in Yorkshire. The happy times at the beginning of the story are s…

Bonnie Prince Charlie: a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden

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G. A. Henty


This is a tale of the son of a Scottish officer, who gets arrested for helping a Jacobite agent. Set during the Jacobite rebellion in Scotl…

The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi)

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Alessandro Manzoni


The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) presents a kaleidoscope of individual stories, which are all tied together by the story of Lucia and Renzo,…

Thorstein of the Mere: A Saga of the Northmen in Lakeland

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William Gershom Collingwood


A fine adventure set in 10th-century England at a time when everyday life in north was made hazardous by wars and shifting alliances among S…

The Marrow of Tradition

Read by James K. White


Charles Waddell Chesnutt


In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the ra…

The Old English Baron

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Clara Reeve


The story follows the adventures of Sir Philip Harclay, who returns to medieval England to find that the castle seat and estate of his frien…

The House of the Wolfings

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William Morris


William Morris was a writer, illustrator and medievalist from the Romantic period and associated with other renowned authors of the time suc…

The Master of Ballantrae

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Robert Louis Stevenson


Heir to a noble Scottish house in the mid 18th century, the Master is a charming, clever, and resourceful villain whose daring but ill-advis…

The Lion of Saint Mark: A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century

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G. A. Henty


"Of all the chapters of history, there are few more interesting or wonderful than that which tells the story of the rise and progress …

Clotel, or, The President's Daughter

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William Wells Brown


Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is a novel by William Wells Brown (1814-84), a fugitive from slavery and abolitionist and was published…

A Prisoner of Morro

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Upton Sinclair


Upton Sinclair, born in 1878 was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author. He wrote over 90 books in many genres. Best known for his muckrak…

Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 2

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Samuel Richardson


Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a her…

The Shades of the Wilderness

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Joseph A. Altsheler


"The Shades of the Wilderness" is the seventh book of the Civil War Series by Joseph A. Altsheler. Picking up where "The Star…

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

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Howard Pyle


Swashbuckling tales of legendary pirates, buccaneers, and marooners, terrors of the Spanish Main.(Summary by Epistomolus)

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