Historical Fiction
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…
Peter und Alexej
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Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Historischer Roman über den russischen Zaren Peter I. Mit großer Authentizität schildert der Autor den Reformprozess, der un…
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…
Jack Sheppard
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William Harrison Ainsworth
The fictionalized exploits of the very real English outlaw, Jack Sheppard. Published in 1839, this Newgate novel outsold its rival, Dickens'…
By Shore and Sedge
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Bret Harte
By Shore and Sedge is a small volume of three short stories that examine the lives of people living on the coast of California and in the de…
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. …
Sir Charles Danvers
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Mary Cholmondeley
The book is a romance with intrigue that involves secret identity and a a bigamous marriage, which centres around the romance between the ro…
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 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 Primitive
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Chester Himes
A nerve-twisting novel of passion and destruction (Summary by a literary critic)
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…
Longshanks
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Stephen W. Meader
In 1828, young Tad Hopkins takes an adventure-filled trip down the Mississippi River to meet his father in New Orleans. Along the way he bef…