Historical Fiction
Abbe Mouret's Transgression, Book Five of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
Read by Mark Leder
Émile Zola
This, the fifth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart Cycle, serves effectively as a sequel to "The Conquest of Plassans". Serge Mouret…
The Second Chance
Read by Atul Sharma
Nellie McClung and Nellie Mcclung
Nellie L. McClung (1873-1951) is a Canadian icon - a feminist, social activist, author, and political leader. When she was a child, she move…
El adiós de Schubert
Read by Carlos Lombardi
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
“El adiós de Schubert” es una novela breve de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, publicada junto a otras tres en un mismo volumen e…
The English Orphans; Or, A Home in the New World
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Mary Jane Holmes
After Mary Howard and her sisters are left without parents in America, they are put up for adoption. Mary's pretty sister, Ella was adopted …
The Beecher Beached
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John B. Tabb
Father John Banister Tabb was an American poet, Roman Catholic priest, and professor of English. Father Tabb (as he was commonly known) was …
For God And Gold
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Julian Corbett
Sir Julian Stafford Corbett was a prominent navy historian and geologist. This semi-autobiographical novel tells about the start: the person…
The Perfect Tribute
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Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
Part 1 of this brief historical fiction is a recounting of the day before and the day of Lincoln's delivery of The Gettysburg Address. Part …
On the Red Staircase
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Mary Imlay Taylor
"“The Czarevitch Ivan is said to be indifferent to the high office,” I replied, in a low tone; “he is blind.”“Ay, and deformed!” said t…
Tom Clark and His Wife, the Rosicrucian's Story
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P. B. Randolph
One day, during the progress of a long and interesting conversation on the nature of that mysterious thing called the human soul, and in whi…
His Excellency Eugene Rougon, Book Six of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
Read by Mark Leder
Émile Zola
Here, in Zola's sixth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, we get to know Pierre and Felicite's eldest son, Eugene. He's the son that made …