Historical Fiction
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Children's Fiction
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Frederick Marryat - Children of the New Forest
The children of Colonel Beverley, a Cavalier officer killed at the Battle of Naseby are believed to have died in the flames when their house, Arnwood, is burned by Roundhead soldiers. However, they escape and are...
10 hours 56 minutes
Historical Fiction
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Daniel Defoe - Journal of the Plague Year
The novel is a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The book is told roughly chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings.
12 hours 5 minutes
Historical Fiction
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James Fenimore Cooper - Last of the Mohicans - A Narrative of 1757 (version 2)
This story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of from 500 to 1,500 unarmed Anglo-American troops, who had...
15 hours 25 minutes
