Historical Fiction

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Charles Major - When Knighthood Was in Flower

Set during the Tudor period of English history, When Knighthood Was in Flower tells the tribulations of Mary Tudor, a younger sister of Henry VIII of England who has fallen in love with a commoner. However, for...

Kara Shallenberg and 14 more 9 hours 2 minutes

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Historical Fiction

426

Katharine S. Prichard - Pioneers

The Pioneers is set against the background of pioneering life in the Gippsland region of Victoria in pre-Federation Australia. Mary and Donald Cameron are free-settlers who make a home in the wilderness and grow a...

Kirsty Leishman 8 hours 18 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

598

Alexandre Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo (version 2)

The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838 (from just before the Hundred Days through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France). The...

Delmar H Dolbier and 38 more 49 hours 49 minutes

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General Fiction

463

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Doctor's Wife

This is one of the Victorian “Sensationist” Mary Elizabeth Braddon's many novels (best known among them: “Lady Audley’s Secret”). It is extremely well written, fluid, humorous and, in places, self-mocking: one of the...

Kirsten Wever 18 hours

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Padre Ignacio, Or The Song Of Temptation

Historical Fiction

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Owen Wister - Padre Ignacio, Or The Song Of Temptation

Padre Ignacio has been the pastor of California mission Santa Ysabel del Mar for twenty years. In 1855 a stranger rides into the mission bringing news and a spiritual crisis. It's really more of a novella than a...

David Wales 1 hour 12 minutes

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462

Joseph A. Altsheler - Guns of Bull Run

The first volume in the Civil War series, following the adventures of Harry Kenton, who leaves his home in Kentucky. He travels through dangerous territory to South Carolina on a secret mission on the eve of the Civil...

Michael Packard and 6 more 9 hours 35 minutes The Civil War Series

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Action & Adventure Fiction

463

G. A. Henty - With Clive in India

With Clive in India gives a vivid picture of the wonderful events of the ten years, which at their commencement saw Madras in the hands of the French--Calcutta at the mercy of the Nabob of Bengal--and English...

Gary Olman 13 hours 32 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

452

William Harrison Ainsworth - Windsor Castle, Book 1

Book 1 — Anne Boleyn. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During Henry's pursuit of Boleyn, the novel describes other...

Amy Gramour and 3 more 3 hours 13 minutes Windsor Castle

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Historical Fiction

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Henry Peterson - Dulcibel

Dulcibel is a young, pretty and kind-hearted fictional character charged with Witchcraft during the infamous Salem Witch trials. During this time there is a group of «afflicted girls» who accuse Dulcibel and many...

Elaine Webb 8 hours 36 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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J. M. Barrie - Echoes of the War

Short stories with dramatic parts about civilian life in London during the First World War. Some humorous moments. By the author of «Peter Pan». ( Summary by JCarson )

James E. Carson 3 hours

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Children's Fiction

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Joseph A. Altsheler - Guns of Shiloh

The Northern Army has just be handed a great defeat at Bull Run and is headed back to Washington, DC. How will the North answer this defeat? Follow our hero, Dick Mason, into the Western campaign to find out....

Juan Federico and 1 more 8 hours 15 minutes The Civil War Series

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Action & Adventure Fiction

462

Rudyard Kipling - Brushwood Boy

The experiences in public school, Sandhurst and military life in India of Major George Cotter together with his adventures in the dream world he discovers and frequents. (Summary by Liam Neely)

Liam Neely 1 hour 32 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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