Historical Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Barnaby Rudge (version 3)

The Protestant Sir John Chester and the Catholic Geoffrey Haredale have been feuding for years. In «Romeo and Juliet» fashion, Chester's son and Haredale's niece wish to marry, but their relatives oppose the union. A...

Hamlet 25 hours 26 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

442

William Henry Shelton - Last Three Soldiers

What if the Confederacy had won the American Civil War? It’s July 1864 and three oh-so-young Union troopers are assigned to a mountaintop in Tennessee to be a link in a chain of flag signalers across a ridge of...

David Wales 7 hours 1 minute

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World’s Story Volume II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine

This is the second volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...

Sonia and 23 more 17 hours 57 minutes World's Story

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Katherine Cecil Thurston - Max

On a trans-continental train journey into Paris, Max, a young adventurer determined to make his way as an artist, meets Blake, a well-to-do Irishman. Blake helps Max set up a studio in Montmartre and they enjoy the...

Simon Evers 8 hours 49 minutes

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George MacDonald - St. George and St. Michael, Volume 2

’St. George and St. Michael’ is a little-known historical romance telling the story of a young couple who find themselves on opposing sides during the tumultuous years of the English Civil Wars. Tensions are...

Hope K and 1 more 5 hours 57 minutes

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George Arliss - Hamilton

One hundred years before the current hit musical Hamilton, Mary Hamlin wrote this historical play for Broadway with a big actor of the day, George Arliss, as co-author playing the leading role. It was made into a...

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George Payne Rainsford James - L'Orme

G.P.R. James was a historian and novelist, who took well-documented historical events and characters and wove stories around minor or imaginary actors in the events. In this work, set in seventeenth century France, we...

Lynne T 20 hours 8 minutes

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William John Locke - Septimus

The book concerns the tangled lives of four people: Zora, a young widow who seeks some purpose in her life; Septimus Dix, an other-wordly but kind-hearted inventor of hopeless things; Clem Sypher, a larger than life...

Simon Evers 8 hours 46 minutes

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Mark the Match Boy or Richard Hunter's Ward

Children's Fiction

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Horatio Alger, Jr. - Mark the Match Boy or Richard Hunter's Ward

In this third installment from the “Ragged Dick” series by Horatio Algers, Jr., the reader is reacquainted with some old friends and meets young Mark Manton. Mark is a match boy plagued by bad luck and an even worse...

Tori Faulder 3 hours 53 minutes Ragged Dick Series

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World’s Story Volume I: China, Japan and the Islands of the Pacific

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume I: China, Japan and the Islands of the Pacific

This is the first volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...

Sonia and 26 more 18 hours 32 minutes World's Story

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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William Makepeace Thackeray - Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel, narrated (occasionally charmingly, always unreliably) by a member of the...

mb 13 hours 49 minutes

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Arnold Bennett - Mr. Prohack

Mr Prohack, an ordinary official in the Treasury and leading a hum-drum life, suddenly and unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money which, with a lucky investment, he turns into a fortune. This humorous book follows...

Simon Evers 12 hours 11 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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