Historical Fiction

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Action & Adventure Fiction

434

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

433

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

450

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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Historical Fiction

443

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)

591

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

450

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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Historical Fiction

493

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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Epistolary Fiction

531

Mark Twain - Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again

This satire on the U.S.A.'s myth of being the «Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal», is unrelenting in its pursuit of justice through exposure. It draws a scathingly shameful portrait of how...

John Greenman 37 minutes

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Historical Fiction

456

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

414

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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Historical Fiction

433

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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Historical Fiction

427

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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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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