Historical Fiction

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A. P. Herbert - Secret Battle

Like many soldiers at the beginning of their military careers, Harry Penrose has romantic ideas of climbing the ranks and attaining hero status. However, while stationed at Gallipoli, the realities of war begin to...

Roger Melin 5 hours 58 minutes

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William Henry Pope Jarvis - Great Gold Rush: A Tale of the Klondike

Canadian journalist William Jarvis' gently fictionalized work recounts many of the countless fascinating tales of the Klondike Gold Rush in Canada's Yukon. (Introduction by Cathy Barratt)

Cate Barratt 6 hours 21 minutes

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445

G. A. Henty - Through the Fray

Ned Sankey is a quick-tempered, strong-willed boy during the Luddite riots in Yorkshire. The happy times at the beginning of the story are soon marred by the death of his father. From there things only get worse. When...

GabrielleC 8 hours 19 minutes

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Beric the Briton: a Story of the Roman Invasion

Historical Fiction

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G. A. Henty - Beric the Briton: a Story of the Roman Invasion

My series of stories dealing with the wars of England would be altogether incomplete did it not include the period when the Romans were the masters of the country. The valour with which the natives of this island...

Gary Olman 15 hours 12 minutes

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Rafael Sabatini - Tavern Knight

Follow the exploits of Sir Crispin Galliard, also known as The Tavern Knight, in his defence of the King of England against Cromwell and his Puritan Entourage. (Summary by Ric Cornwall)

Deborah Knight and 3 more 6 hours 50 minutes

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G. A. Henty - Through Russian Snows

There are few campaigns that, either in point of the immense scale upon which it was undertaken, the completeness of its failure, or the enormous loss of life entailed, appeal to the imagination in so great a degree...

Gary Olman 11 hours 42 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alexander Hunter - Johnny Reb and Billy Yank

Johnny Reb & Billy Yank is an epic novel first published in 1905 by Alexander Hunter, a soldier who served in Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army from 1861 to 1865. The novel is noted for encapsulating most of...

Barry Eads 27 hours 48 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

552

James Fenimore Cooper - Deerslayer - The First Warpath

The Deerslayer, or The First Warpath (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of...

Josh Smith and 1 more 20 hours 25 minutes Leatherstocking Tales

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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H. Rider Haggard - Eric Brighteyes

The Saga of Eric Brighteyes is the title of an epic viking novel by H. Rider Haggard, and concerns the adventures of its eponymous principal character in 10th century Iceland. Eric Thorgrimursson (nicknamed...

Brett W. Downey 10 hours 17 minutes Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, Book 3

Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage to follow her heart and must...

David Cole and 8 more 5 hours 47 minutes Anna Karenina (Garnett English Translation)

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Zane Grey - Spirit of the Border

This is an early novel by the phenomenally successful author of frontier, western and sports stories. It deals with historical characters and incidents in the Ohio Valley in the late 18th century, especially with the...

Leonard Wilson 10 hours 7 minutes

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General Fiction

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Mary Johnston - To Have And To Hold

When I first started reading this book, I thought it to be a historical romance novel. As I read further, I pondered whether it might be a sea-faring story. Reading still further, I determined it to be an adventure...

Tom Weiss 11 hours 40 minutes

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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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