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Historical Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Point of Honor

Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following...

Mark F. Smith 3 hours 29 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Eustace Diamonds

Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace, is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. While clever and beautiful, Lizzie has several character flaws; the greatest...

Laura Koskinen and 19 more 27 hours 31 minutes Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 08: 1811-1812

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story...

Jc Guan and 6 more 3 hours 57 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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John A. Joyce - Shakspere: Personal Recollections

A fictitious account of a «friend» of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling Shakespeare's life, adventures, speeches, and impromptu bursts of poetry. (Summary by...

Sibella Denton and 9 more 7 hours 39 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 07: 1810-1811

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story...

eva and 4 more 2 hours 38 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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Ruth of Boston: A Story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Children's Fiction

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James Otis - Ruth of Boston: A Story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

James Otis wrote a series of books depicting life in the new colonies, written from a child's point of view. Ruth of Boston is the story of 12 year old Ruth, coming from London to live in the Massachusetts Bay Colony....

Laura Caldwell 3 hours 7 minutes

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Historical Fiction

535

H. G. Wells - Ann Veronica

Ann Veronica was a controversial book detailing the development of a naive school girl into a «New Woman». When it was published, the Spectator described it as a «poisonous book… capable of poisoning the minds of...

Joy Chan 10 hours 25 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 06: 1808-1810

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story...

Roger Melin and 7 more 4 hours 2 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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Children's Fiction

539

G. A. Henty - St. Bartholomew's Eve

Set in the days of the religious wars of Europe, St. Bartholomew's Eve is the tale of the Huguenot's desperate fight for freedom of worship in France. As the struggle intensifies the plot thickens, culminating in the...

Anna Christensen 12 hours 2 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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שלום עליכם Sholem Aleichem - Jewish Children (Yudishe Kinder)

Although written from a child's perspective, this is not a kids book but a series of funny, poignant, and sometimes disturbing stories about life in a late 19th-century Russian-Jewish village — the world of my...

Adrian Praetzellis 7 hours 36 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Fanny Burney - Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress

The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find a husband who will accept her name. This proves impossible, and she gives...

Nikki Sullivan and 24 more 35 hours 50 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - White Company

Set during the Hundred Years' War with France, The White Company tells the story of a young Saxon man who is learning what it is to be a knight. Raised by Cistercian Monks and rejected by a violent elder brother,...

Clive Catterall 14 hours 44 minutes

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