Historical Fiction

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Arnold Bennett - Leonora

Leonora Stanway is 40 and lives a comfortable middle-class life with her unsympathetic and dull husband, John. Her three daughters are rapidly growing up and away and she regrets that her life has become dull,...

Simon Evers 7 hours 47 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Black Arrow

In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune… or end his life. Dick Shelton, a nobly-born lad, is on the cusp of manhood, and he is thrust...

Mark F. Smith 8 hours 54 minutes

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A. E. W. Mason - Clementina

This well-written novel is a fictional account of a true historical rescue mission. In 1719, at the age of 17, when she was on her way across Europe to marry James Stuart, the Catholic pretender to the British throne,...

Jacquerie 9 hours 15 minutes

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Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup (Dramatic Reading)

Dramatic Readings

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John Kendrick Bangs - Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup (Dramatic Reading)

Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous spin on encounters with several famous people of the time. «I set forth from my office in London upon my pilgrimage to the shrines of the...

2 hours 38 minutes

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Georg Ebers - Cleopatra

The world knows the fate of the classic lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony, so there is no need to announce a spoiler alert. Georg Ebers was a German Egyptologist who deftly applied his comprehensive knowledge of Rome...

Jim Locke 15 hours 8 minutes

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Basil King - Inner Shrine

At the opening of this story Diane Eveleth returns from a party in Paris to her mother-in-law, who tells her that her husband George Eveleth has been killed in a duel, fought with the Marquis de Bienville. Diane...

Simon Evers 7 hours 53 minutes

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Philippe Aubert de Gaspé - Canadians of Old

In his mid-70s, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé took on the project of recording the culture and heritage of French Canada, especially that of the late 1700s, the world of his youth. The result, published in French in 1863,...

Bruce Pirie 9 hours 30 minutes

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With Cortez in Mexico, or By Right of Conquest

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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G. A. Henty - With Cortez in Mexico, or By Right of Conquest

In perhaps the most audacious military enterprise in the history of human conquest, Cortez, with only a few hundred men, conquered a civilization of tens of thousands. This is the story of an Englishman who boards a...

Ryan Cherrick and 2 more 15 hours 22 minutes

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Gene Stratton-Porter - Daughter of the Land (version 2)

A Daughter of the Land follows Kate Bates, one of sixteen children, as she takes the wings of morning to try for independence and the life she's been denied. She dreams of a husband, children, and a farm, yet her...

Patience Charles and 3 more 11 hours

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Mary Augusta Ward - Marriage of William Ashe

William Ashe, an up and coming politician, impulsively marries Kitty, a young, flighty and strange girl who, far from supporting her husband in his career, instead does exactly as she pleases. The book follows the...

Simon Evers 15 hours 7 minutes

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Oliver Optic - Watch and Wait; The Young Fugitives

One soft summer evening, when Woodville was crowned with the glory and beauty of the joyous season, three strangers presented themselves before the Grant family, and asked for counsel and assistance. The party...

Scarlett Martin 5 hours 26 minutes

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Gothic Fiction

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George W. M. Reynolds - Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf

Wagner is a poor, lonely old shepherd living on the edge of the Black Forest. In a devil's pact he gains youth and wealth for the price of transforming into a ravenous wolf once a month. This book contains everything...

clarinetcarrot 18 hours 51 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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