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Richard of Jamestown: A Story of the Virginia Colony

Children's Fiction

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James Otis - Richard of Jamestown: A Story of the Virginia Colony

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 is written from the viewpoint of a young boy named Richard Mutton. (summary...

Laura Caldwell 3 hours 8 minutes

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - Dead Souls

Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души) by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of 19th-century Russian literature. Gogol himself saw it as an «epic poem in...

David Barnes and 14 more 14 hours 44 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sir Walter Scott - Talisman

The Talisman is a gripping tale set near the end of the Third Crusade. King Richard the Lionheart is grievously ill, and all around him the leaders from allied countries plot and scheme to gain personal power,...

Lizzie Driver 14 hours 27 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 03: 1805

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...

Accent and 5 more 5 hours 2 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Dorado

El Dorado, by Baroness Orczy is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments...

Karen Savage 10 hours 56 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Can You Forgive Her?

“Can You Forgive Her?” is the first in a series of six Trollope novels dealing broadly with 19th Century English political scene. It introduces the reader to Plantagenet and Glencora Palliser, as they court, marry,...

Laura Koskinen and 16 more 32 hours 16 minutes Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope

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Historical Fiction

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - North and South (version 2)

North and South is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, a socially sensitive lady from the South. The story: the heroine, Margaret...

Kara Shallenberg and 10 more 18 hours 32 minutes

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General Fiction

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John Galsworthy - Man of Property (Forsyte Saga Vol. 1)

'The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. The Man of Property is the first book in the saga. The 'man of property' of the title is...

Andy Minter and 6 more 12 hours 24 minutes Forsyte Saga group Volumes 1-3

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 02: 1805

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...

Gesine and 11 more 4 hours 38 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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Historical Fiction

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Henry Fielding - History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire...

hosmer_angel and 19 more 36 hours 5 minutes

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History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne

Historical Fiction

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William Makepeace Thackeray - History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne

A classic Victorian novel and a historical novel rolled into one! Read about court and army life during the reign of Queen Anne — a story of Catholic — Protestant intrigue, and the party which aspired to the...

Måns Broo and 13 more 19 hours 21 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - Scarlet Letter

The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter...

hefyd and 11 more 9 hours 10 minutes

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