Historical Fiction

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Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - Fabiola or The Church of the Catacombs

This historical novel is set in Rome in the early 4th century AD, during the time of the cruel persecution of Christians under the Emperor Diocletian. The heroine of the book is Fabiola, a young pagan beauty from...

Maria Therese 13 hours 29 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire

Looking for a replacement to Sherlock Holmes after the author had killed him off in 1894, Doyle wrote this murder mystery in the dying years of the 19th century. Set in Napoleon's era, it involves a Frenchman...

Cate Barratt 4 hours 39 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Neil Munro - Doom Castle

Doom Castle is the story of young Count Victor's journey to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion, searching for a traitor to the Jacobite cause as well as a mysterious man under the name of «Drimdarroch», whom he...

Crln Yldz Ksr and 1 more 11 hours 3 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Paul Creswick - Robin Hood

«Well, Robin, on what folly do you employ yourself? Do you cut sticks for our fire o' mornings?» Thus spoke Master Hugh Fitzooth, King's Ranger of the Forest at Locksley, as he entered his house. Robin...

ToddHW and 9 more 10 hours 24 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Jacob Abbott - Margaret of Anjou

Margaret of Anjou, wife of England’s Henry VI, played a key role in launching the storied War of the Roses – the 30-year civil conflict fuelled by the Lancasters and the Yorks, each vying for the British throne in the...

Cate Barratt 4 hours 44 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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H. Rider Haggard - Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch

This is a great book if you're looking for an adventure filled novel. It takes place during the Spanish Inquisition and describes some of the horrors that happened giving you an idea of what it was really like to live...

Abigail Rasmussen 17 hours 2 minutes

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Mark Twain - Horse's Tale (Version 2)

A Horse's Tale is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), written partially in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buffalo Bill's favorite horse, at a fictional frontier outpost with the U.S. 7th Cavalry. With a...

John Greenman 1 hour 54 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Homer - Iliad (Pope Translation)

Homer’s Iliad is the first great work of Western literature. Composed in twenty-four books of Greek hexameter poetry, it portrays the events of the last year of the Trojan War. Its translation into rhyming couplets...

Steven R. Perkins and 1 more 19 hours 11 minutes

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Monsieur Lecoq Part 2: The Honor of the Name

Historical Fiction

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Émile Gaboriau - Monsieur Lecoq Part 2: The Honor of the Name

Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story: Around 11 o'clock, on the evening of Shrove Sunday 18.., close to the old Barrière d'Italie, frightful cries, coming from Mother Chupin's...

Lazuli and 6 more 17 hours 4 minutes

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Henryk Sienkiewicz - With Fire and Sword

In 1647, Poland is a land facing complete destruction with fire and sword. It may come from without, as the Tartar hordes swarm over the steppes, turning cities to ash and the Poles to slaves. It may come from within...

David Leeson and 2 more 29 hours 53 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Robert Hugh Benson - Come Rack! Come Rope!

Come Rack! Come Rope! is a historical novel by the English priest and writer Robert Hugh Benson, a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism. Set in Derbyshire at the time of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics,...

Maria Therese and 3 more 14 hours 21 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Charles Morris - Historical Tales, Vol VI: French

Volume VI of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fifth volume covers the history of France from the Hun invasion of Europe in the 5th century up to...

Kalynda 7 hours 52 minutes Historical Tales

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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