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General Fiction

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Helen Hunt Jackson - Ramona

Ramona, a novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson (1884), is the story of a part-Scottish and part-Native American orphan girl growing up and getting married in Southern California, suffering racial discrimination and...

Elli and 6 more 15 hours 49 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Lew Wallace - Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator which is taken to be intentional. He is seized and sent to the fleet as a...

Mark F. Smith 23 hours 22 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Charles Kingsley - Hypatia

Charles Kingsley (June 12 1819 — January 23 1875) was an English divine, university professor, historian, and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east Hampshire. As a novelist, his chief...

dexter and 17 more 18 hours 22 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 12: 1812

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir”) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of...

kyleti and 7 more 2 hours 41 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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General Fiction

506

Charles Dickens - Barnaby Rudge (version 2)

One of the two Historical novels Charles Dickens wrote, Barnaby Rudge is set around the ‘Gordon’ riots in London in 1780. The story begins in 1775 with Barnaby, his Mother, and his talking Raven Grip, fleeing their...

Mil Nicholson 29 hours 1 minute

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Historical Fiction

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Last Days of Pompeii

Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the...

Ric F and 11 more 16 hours 45 minutes

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Historical Fiction

479

Anthony Trollope - Phineas Redux

Phineas Finn is the fourth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. At the end of Phineas Finn, the second novel in the series, Phineas had returned to Ireland and married his childhood sweetheart after having...

Philippa and 14 more 25 hours 23 minutes Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Baroness Emma Orczy - I Will Repay

This is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The second Pimpernel book written by Orczy, it comes (chronologically) third in the series and should be read after Sir Percy Leads the Band and before The Elusive...

Annie Kirkpatrick 5 hours 39 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 11: 1812

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir”) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of...

Ernst Pattynama and 12 more 6 hours 10 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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Historical Fiction

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Frederick Marryat - Mr. Midshipman Easy

One of the first novel-length pieces of nautical fiction, MR. MIDSHIPMAN EASY (1836) is a funny and easygoing account of the adventures of Jack Easy, a son of privilege who joins the Royal Navy. The work begins as a...

Adrian Praetzellis 16 hours 17 minutes

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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Volumes 1 & 2

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Mark Twain - Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Volumes 1 & 2

Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full «Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte.» De Conte is identified as Joan's page and secretary. For those who've always wanted to «get...

John Greenman 15 hours 19 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Lew Wallace - Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Book 1

Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ «Book 1» gives a sideline view of events taking pace around the days of Christ. Book 1 gives the account of Christ's birth. (Summary by MHAIJH85)

David Lawrence and 8 more 3 hours 9 minutes

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