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Historical Fiction

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John Dos Passos - Three Soldiers

Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First World War, and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre. H.L. Mencken,...

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Action & Adventure Fiction

518

Jules Verne - Blockade Runners

Writing at the end of the American Civil War, Verne weaves this story of a Scottish merchant who, in desperation at the interruption of the flow of Southern cotton due to the Union blockade, determines to build his...

Mark F. Smith 2 hours 2 minutes

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War & Military Fiction

518

Honoré de Balzac - Farewell

In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, confined in her madness; mute, or eerily chanting in her moated grange. The...

Martin Geeson 2 hours 28 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

490

Dorothy Tennant - Miss Pim's Camouflage

Mid-WWI, staid Englishwoman Miss Perdita Pim suffers a sunstroke gardening & gains the power of invisibility. She becomes a super-secret agent, going behind German lines, sometimes visible, sometimes not, witnessing...

Grant Hurlock 7 hours 49 minutes

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War & Military Fiction

478

Willa Sibert Cather - One of Ours

This 1923 Pulitzer Prize winning novel was written by Willa Cather. This work had been inspired by reading her cousin G.P. Cather's wartime letters home to his mother. He was the first officer from Nebraska killed in...

Tom Weiss 13 hours 36 minutes

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Red Badge of Courage; An Episode of the American Civil War

War & Military Fiction

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Stephen Crane - Red Badge of Courage; An Episode of the American Civil War

There comes a time in the course of battle when a participant casts his fate to the gods of war, and carries on without question, the task at hand. Living, dying, right or wrong, can be contemplated later. The spirit...

John W. Michaels 4 hours 46 minutes

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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Volumes 1 & 2

Historical Fiction

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Mark Twain - Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Volumes 1 & 2

Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full «Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte.» De Conte is identified as Joan's page and secretary. For those who've always wanted to «get...

John Greenman 15 hours 19 minutes

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Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army

War & Military Fiction

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James Norman Hall - Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army

“Pvt Ryan”, “Platoon”, “A Soldier’s Home”, Kitchener’s Mob”. These aren’t happy stories, they are about the experience of War. War at different times, and although modern warfare may be more sanitized, the adventure,...

John W. Michaels 3 hours 58 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Edward Streeter - Dere Mable

Bill is in training camp, preparing to go off to World War I. This book is a collection of love letters written to his sweetheart, Mable. The letters are humorous, mis-spelled, and have many stories of life in an...

Rob Kunkel 1 hour 3 minutes

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War & Military Fiction

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Stephen King-Hall - Diary of a U-boat Commander

Captain Karl von Schenk of the Kaiser's Navy is a stereotypical German nobleman — supremely self-confident, touchy about the divisions of class and any infringement on his place. He thinks he is handsome, has a...

Mark F. Smith 5 hours 22 minutes

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General Fiction

441

Saki - When William Came

We have had many novels about alternate histories, often of the 'What would have happened if Hitler had won the war' type and this is another — except that this one is set in 1913 and the 'William' of the title is...

Andy Minter 5 hours 21 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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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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