Historical Fiction

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Leatherface: A Tale of Old Flanders

A romantic, political adventure story set in the late 1500's, during the Spanish rule over the Netherlands, in the city of Ghent. Leatherface is an Orangist and emerges to lead the Ghent citizens to rebel and win back...

deongines 13 hours 42 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Lawrence Perry - Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport

Newport, of course, means aristocratic families and naval adventures. In this tale, we wonder if the heiress will actually marry the Russian prince, who is of questionable character, or the chauffeur, who would...

Jim Locke 5 hours 57 minutes

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Family Life

Anthony Trollope - Harry Heathcote of Gangoil

Harry Heathcote is an English ‘squatter’ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sister Kate live with him. Giles Medlicott owns a sugar plantation and mill...

Simon Evers 3 hours 46 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Queen's Necklace

The Queen's Necklace is historical fiction based on an actual scandal in the court of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI during 1784-85, «The Diamond Necklace Affair». The Diamond Necklace Affair contributed to the...

Gail Timmerman Vaughan 12 hours 20 minutes

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World’s Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland

Historical Fiction

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland

This is the seventh 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 12 minutes World's Story

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General Fiction

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Mark Twain - How To Tell A Story, and Other Essays

The complete collection of works using this title. Other versions, including the Project Gutenberg version, have been radically shortened. Mark Twain published several collections of his short stories and essays. This...

John Greenman 12 hours 12 minutes

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d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 1: The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 1: The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later

Volume 3 of The d'Artagnan Romances is divided into three parts. The first begins in 1660, ten years after Volume 2, with d’Artagnan as Lieutenant of the King’s Musketeers. In this post, he is very near to achieving...

John Van Stan 31 hours 29 minutes d'Artagnan Romances (in English translation)

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Historical Fiction

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Basil King - Side of the Angels

The book is set in New England in the early 20th century in an old established community where times are rapidly changing but nonetheless the rules of a hierarchical society still hold good. Thor, a rich doctor from...

Simon Evers 12 hours 7 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Henry Blake Fuller - Cliff-Dwellers

Between the former site of old Fort Dearborn and the present site of our newest Board of Trade there lies a restricted yet tumultuous territory through which, during the course of the last fifty years, the rushing...

Bhavya and 12 more 7 hours 28 minutes

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Mrs. Hungerford - Bachelor's Dream

This is a wonderfully written novel by Mrs. Hungerford about the perennial bachelor and the various interests in his life, where he is a doctor by trade. From taking care of his sister's children to a possible love on...

Lynda Marie Neilson 3 hours 26 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Sons of Fire

«He was a stranger in Matcham, a 'foreigner' as the villagers called such alien visitors. He had never been in the village before, knew nothing of its inhabitants or its surroundings, its customs, ways, local...

Jim Locke 13 hours 44 minutes

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Historical Fiction

Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey

This is the sixth 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 19 more 16 hours 37 minutes World's Story

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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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