Historical Fiction
Leonora
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Arnold Bennett
Leonora Stanway is 40 and lives a comfortable middle-class life with her unsympathetic and dull husband, John. Her three daughters are rapid…
Clementina
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A. E. W. Mason
This well-written novel is a fictional account of a true historical rescue mission. In 1719, at the age of 17, when she was on her way acros…
Catherine Howard (Dramatic Reading)
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Alexandre Dumas
Subtitled "The Throne, The Tomb, and The Scaffold - An Historical Play in 3 Acts From the Celebrated Play of that Name by Alexandre Dum…
Taras Bulba; a Tale of the Cossacks
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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Taras Bulba is a romanticised historical novella by Nikolai Gogol set in Russia’s equivalent of America’s wild frontier, what is today Ukrai…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier (version 2)
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Alexandre Dumas
This is the dramatic story of Urbain Grandier, a catholic priest, who had a reputation to rival that of Casanova, which ultimately led to hi…
The World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal
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Eva March Tappan
This is the fifth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…
Elsie's New Relations
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Martha Finley
In this ninth book in the classic Elsie Dinsmore series, the family finishes their summer at the seaside and returns to Ion. The narrative t…
The Inner Shrine
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Basil King
At the opening of this story Diane Eveleth returns from a party in Paris to her mother-in-law, who tells her that her husband George Eveleth…
Echoes of the War
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J. M. Barrie
Short stories with dramatic parts about civilian life in London during the First World War. Some humorous moments. By the author of "Pe…
Windsor Castle, Book 4
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William Harrison Ainsworth
Book 4 - Cardinal Wolsey. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn a…
The Key to the Riddle
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Margaret S. Comrie
Young Azerole Montoux and her brother Leon find themselves separated from their family by the religious persecutions of 1686. Threatened by …
The Astonishing History of Troy Town
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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
A humorous story about some of the extraordinary inhabitants of a British seaside town. - Summary by Simon Evers
Ruggles of Red Gap
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Harry Leon Wilson
A stuffy class-conscious gentleman's valet is transplanted to the rough uncivilized American northwest, where the rubes and social climbers …
Sir Thomas More
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Anthony Munday
Sir Thomas More is a collaborative Elizabethan play by Anthony Munday and others depicting the life and death of Thomas More. It survives on…
The Cathedral
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Hugh Walpole
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (1884 – 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the c…
A Daughter of the Land (version 2)
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Gene Stratton-Porter
A Daughter of the Land follows Kate Bates, one of sixteen children, as she takes the wings of morning to try for independence and the life s…
The World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Tur…
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Eva March Tappan
This is the sixth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…
Leatherface: A Tale of Old Flanders
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Baroness Emma Orczy
A romantic, political adventure story set in the late 1500's, during the Spanish rule over the Netherlands, in the city of Ghent. Leatherfac…
Hagar's Daughter. A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice
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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Hagar's Daughter was first published serially in "The Colored American Magazine" in 1901-1902 by Pauline E. Hopkins, a prominent A…
Men, Women and Guns
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Sapper
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…