Historical Fiction
Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross
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Florence Morse Kingsley
This is a unique sequel to the book Titus: A Comrade of the Cross written in a very different style, though none the less memorable, full of…
Old Rose And Silver
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Myrtle Reed
The novel follows the lives of Rose and her widowed Aunt, Madame Francesca Bernard, along with young visitor and cousin Isabel, whose lives …
The Keeper of the Bees
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Gene Stratton-Porter
Threatened with isolation in a sanitorium for tuberculosis, a young soldier escapes and finds himself healing in a paradisal bee-garden by t…
His Masterpiece
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Émile Zola
“His Masterpiece" (“L’Oeuvre”) is a fictionalized account of the Parisian art world in the mid 19th century, and the emerging Realism, …
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel…
Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
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George W. M. Reynolds
Wagner is a poor, lonely old shepherd living on the edge of the Black Forest. In a devil's pact he gains youth and wealth for the price of t…
Windsor Castle, Book 1
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William Harrison Ainsworth
Book 1 - Anne Boleyn. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as h…
Richard of Jamestown: A Story of the Virginia Colony
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James Otis
Richard of Jamestown by James Otis was written for children with the purpose to show them the daily home life of the Virginia colonists. It …
'Tilda Jane
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Marshall Saunders
When spunky 'Tilda Jane isn't allowed to keep her beloved dog with her at the orphanage, she decides to set out on her own in search of a ho…
Der Heilige
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Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Die Rahmenhandlung der Novelle "Der Heilige" bildet Hans der Armbruster, der im Jahre 1180 im Rückblick die dramatische Leben…
The Forty-Five Guardsmen
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Alexandre Dumas
The sequel to "Chicot the Jester" and final book of the "Valois Romances." This story begins six years after the famed &…
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreord…
The Mill on the Floss (Version 2)
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George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the l…
Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country
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Irving Bacheller
Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country. Having lost both parents and his home in northern Vermont, orphan Willie Brower is taken in by Eb…
The Trumpet-Major
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Thomas Hardy
Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments pr…
The Spoilers
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Rex Beach
Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan to a prominent family and pursued a career as a lawyer before being drawn to Alaska at the time of th…
The Maid of Maiden Lane (dramatic reading)
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Amelia E. Barr
The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Mrs. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in …
War and Peace, Volume 1 (Maude translation)
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy’s epic historical novel chronicling the Napoleonic war in Russia. Considered one of the greatest works of literature of all time…
Windsor Castle, Book 2
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William Harrison Ainsworth
Book 2 - Herne the Hunter. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn…