Historical Fiction
The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance
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William Harrison Ainsworth
A romance with the backdrop of the notorious Star Chamber of the English legal system. The Chamber began as purely administrative, but gradu…
Bailén
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Benito Pérez Galdós
Rescatado de entre un montón de muertos y una vez recuperado de sus graves heridas, con las alas y el instinto que proporciona el amo…
Tiempos difíciles
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Charles Dickens
Con esta novela ambientada en la era de la revolución industrial, en una imaginada localidad londinense cuyo pueblo vive bajo el adoc…
Majesteit
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Louis Couperus
Eerste van de drie koningsromans van Louis Couperus. Het is een van de populairste romans van Louis Couperus, getuige het aantal herdrukken …
Agincourt
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George Payne Rainsford James
The Battle of Agincourt provided a surprise English victory in the Hundred Years' War. It took place in 1415 and brought a turning point in …
Peveril of the Peak
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Sir Walter Scott
Peveril is one of Scott's Waverley novels series. It is a historical novel set in 1678 in England, and tells a story of the Popish Plot. P…
Arabella Stuart
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George Payne Rainsford James
Lady Arabella Stuart was an English noblewoman at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At one time considered to be a possible successo…
The Island Pharisees
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John Galsworthy
Richard Shelton is wrestling with his conscience. As a member of the upper class at a time when the British Empire is at its height, he sees…
The Heidenmauer
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James Fenimore Cooper
This is a story that is set in 16th century Germany. Characters representing the various classes of the remnants of feudalism and the rising…
Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur
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Beatrice E. Clay
"Among the stories of world-wide renown, not the least stirring are those that have gathered about the names of national heroes. The &A…
The Freelands
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John Galsworthy
The Freelands family is a mixture: Tod Freeland is an uncommunicative gentle giant, his wife Kirsteen passionate and free-spoken, Felix is a…
De Pleegzoon
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Jacob Van Lennep
Gedurende het twaalfjarig bestand van de 80 jarige oorlog woedt er in de Nederlanden een godsdienstoorlog tussen de Remonstranten en de Cont…
The Village in the Jungle
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Leonard Woolf
Woolf wrote this novel based on his experience as a government agent for British imperialist-controlled Ceylon in the early part of the twen…
Virgin Soil
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Ivan Turgenev
The second volume of Turgenev's last novel sees social change bubbling up into conflict with the established order and interacting with the …
Cup of Gold
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John Steinbeck
Steinbeck's first novel, a historical fiction account of Henry (Captain) Morgan. The title comes from his sacking of Panama City which was …
Historia de un Pepe
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José Milla Y Vidaurre
Novela histórico-narrativa de mediados del siglo XIX, donde un recién nacido es abandonado a la puerta de una casa. Luego de s…
The Huguenot
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George Payne Rainsford James
The time of French king Louis XIV was a time of religious conflict. His father, Louis XIII had tried to suppress the teachings and followers…
Held Fast For England
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G. A. Henty
"He is sharp, and does his lessons well. I have no difficulty with him, on that score; but he is a perfect imp of mischief." Young…