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Colonel Chabert - Honoré de Balzac
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Colonel Chabert - Honoré de Balzac
Colonel Chabert is a soldier, who goes missing during the Napoleonic wars, and then returns from the dead, most inconveniently for his wife, who has remarried and has gone up in the world. This novella by Balzac lays bare the venality of the French...
Hypatia - Charles Kingsley
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Hypatia - Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley (June 12 1819 - January 23 1875) was an English divine, university professor, historian, and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east Hampshire. As a novelist, his chief power lay in his descriptive...
Margaret of Anjou - Jacob Abbott
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Margaret of Anjou - Jacob Abbott
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 15th century....
Barnaby Rudge (version 2) - Charles Dickens
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Barnaby Rudge (version 2) - Charles Dickens
One of the two Historical novels Charles Dickens wrote, Barnaby Rudge is set around the ‘Gordon’ riots in London in 1780. The story begins in 1775 with Barnaby, his Mother, and his talking Raven Grip, fleeing their home from a blackmailer, and going...
The Black Moth - Georgette Heyer
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The Black Moth - Georgette Heyer
The year is 1752. Devil, the Duke of Andover, and highwayman Jack, the Earl of Wyncham are at odds over a country squire's beautiful daughter. Cheating at cards, the marital problems of the younger sister of the Duke and the younger brother of the...
The Roots of the Mountains - William Morris
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The Roots of the Mountains - William Morris
The Roots of the Mountains was the second in a projected series of three historical novels set in a pre-medieval Germanic world (the third was not completed). It follows the themes of House of the Wolfings, which was published in the same year, into...
The Secret Battle - A. P. Herbert
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The Secret Battle - A. P. Herbert
  • Author: A. P. Herbert
  • Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
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 take their toll on Penrose, not...
One of the 28th - a Tale of Waterloo - G. A. Henty
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One of the 28th - a Tale of Waterloo - G. A. Henty
  • Author: G. A. Henty
  • Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
A tale of Victorian-style romance, maritime battles and even the penultimate Napoleonic battle - Waterloo. (Introduction by Mike Harris)...
With Clive in India - G. A. Henty
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With Clive in India - G. A. Henty
  • Author: G. A. Henty
  • Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
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 influence apparently at the point of...
The Cloister and the Hearth - Charles Reade
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The Cloister and the Hearth - Charles Reade
  • Author: Charles Reade
  • Genre: Historical Fiction / Religious Fiction
'The Cloister and the Hearth', by Charles Reade, was published in 1861. It's a long and winding picaresque novel set in 15th century Europe, telling the story of the love between Gerard Eliason, an artist turned priest, and Margaret Brandt, the...
Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress - Fanny Burney
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Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress - Fanny Burney
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 up her fortune to marry for love....
Sir Thomas More - Anthony Munday
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Sir Thomas More - Anthony Munday
Sir Thomas More is a collaborative Elizabethan play by Anthony Munday and others depicting the life and death of Thomas More. It survives only in a single manuscript, now owned by the British Library. The manuscript is notable because three pages of...
Anne of Geierstein, Volume 1 - Sir Walter Scott
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Anne of Geierstein, Volume 1 - Sir Walter Scott
Anne of Geierstein, or The Maiden of the Mist (1829) is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. It is set in Central Europe, mainly in Switzerland, shortly after the Yorkist victory at the Battle of Tewkesbury (1471). It covers the period of Swiss involvement...
The Steel Hammer - Louis Ulbach
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The Steel Hammer - Louis Ulbach
  • Author: Louis Ulbach
  • Genre: Historical Fiction / Detective Fiction
A large inheritance greatly transforms the lives of three people: a good man, who would have inherited at least a part of the fortune if his uncle hadn't passed away before altering the will, his cousin, who inherits all but is prevented from...
War and Peace, Book 02: 1805 - Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace, Book 02: 1805 - Leo Tolstoy
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 of Russian society during the...
The Young Carthaginian - G. A. Henty
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The Young Carthaginian - G. A. Henty
Typically, Henty's heroes are boys of pluck in troubled times, and this is no different. Detailed research is embellished with a vivid imagination, especially in this novel set in the Punic wars, about which knowledge is limited: "...certainly we...
Waverley, Volume 1 - Sir Walter Scott
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Waverley, Volume 1 - Sir Walter Scott
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'). It relates the story of a young dreamer and English soldier, Edward Waverley, who...
Post Haste - R. M. Ballantyne
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Post Haste - R. M. Ballantyne
In this book, Ballantyne weaves the story of Phillip Mayland and his friend, George Aspel with an interesting portrayal of the British Post Office as it existed in the 19th century. In the words of R. M. Ballantyne himself: "This tale is founded...
The White Peacock - D. H. Lawrence
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The White Peacock - D. H. Lawrence
Lawrence’s first novel is set in Nethermere (his name for the real-life Eastwood in Nottinghamshire). The plot is narrated by Cyril Beardsall and focuses in particular on the relationship of his sister Lettie with two admirers, the more handsome and...
The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt - Théophile Gautier
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The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt - Théophile Gautier
  • Author: Théophile Gautier
  • Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
The account he gives, in his novel, of the ancient city of Thebes, of the great necropolis in the valley of Biban el Molûk, of the subterranean tombs, of the precautions taken by the designers to baffle curiosity, of the form and ornamentation of...
The Lancashire Witches - William Harrison Ainsworth
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The Lancashire Witches - William Harrison Ainsworth
The Lancashire Witches is a highly fictionalised account of the activities of the notorious witches Demdike, Chattox and Alice Nutter who, together with others terrorised the district of Lancashire around Pendle Hill and the Forest of Bowland during...
At Agincourt - White Hoods of Paris - G. A. Henty
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At Agincourt - White Hoods of Paris - G. A. Henty
  • Author: G. A. Henty
  • Genre: Children's Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
The story begins in a grim feudal castle in Normandie. The times were troublous, and soon the king compelled Lady Margaret de Villeroy, with her children, to go to Paris as hostages. Guy Aylmer went with her.Paris was turbulent. Soon the guild of...
The Gods are Athirst - Anatole France
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The Gods are Athirst - Anatole France
The Gods Are Athirst (French: Les dieux ont soif, also translated as The Gods Are Thirsty or The Gods Will Have Blood) is a 1912 novel by Anatole France. The story follows the young Parisian painter Évariste Gamelin, who rises speedily from his...
El Dorado - Baroness Orczy
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El Dorado - Baroness Orczy
  • Author: Baroness Orczy
  • Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
El Dorado, by Baroness Orczy is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of the original book. (Summary...
The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities - Stephen Leacock
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The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities - Stephen Leacock
  • Author: Stephen Leacock
  • Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
More stories by Canadian Stephen Leacock. Some of these stories carry over characters introduced in Further Foolishness. Some stories are humourous; some are more thoughtful. It helps to be familiar with WWI-era European politics to catch much of...
North and South (version 2) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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North and South (version 2) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
North and South is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, a socially sensitive lady from the South. The story: the heroine, Margaret Hale, is the daughter of a...
Anna Karenina, Book 7 - Leo Tolstoy
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Anna Karenina, Book 7 - Leo Tolstoy
  • Author: Leo Tolstoy
  • Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 7, Levin, in town for Kitty’s confinement, finds himself drawn to the corruptive influence of Moscow society....
The Dove in the Eagle's Nest - Charlotte Mary Yonge
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The Dove in the Eagle's Nest - Charlotte Mary Yonge
Christina is an ordinary girl who lives with her aunt and uncle. Life is normal until one day when her father appears and plans to take Christina away to live with him at a robber baron's castle. Her peaceful life has suddenly turned upside down,...
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Among the most “banned” books in the United States, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. Stowe was a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female...
War and Peace Vol. 1 (Dole Translation) - Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace Vol. 1 (Dole Translation) - Leo Tolstoy
  • Author: Leo Tolstoy
  • Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
”War and Peace” is a panoramic novel: It is its own justification, and perhaps needs no introduction. It always reminds the translator of a broad and mighty river flowing onward with all the majesty of Fate. On its surface, float swiftly by logs and...
The Canadians of Old - Philippe Aubert de Gaspé
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The Canadians of Old - Philippe Aubert de Gaspé
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, was the historical fiction "Les...
The Blazed Trail - Stewart Edward White
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The Blazed Trail - Stewart Edward White
Stewart Edward White wrote fiction and non-fiction about adventure and travel, with an emphasis on natural history and outdoor living. White's books were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing wilderness and many are based on his...
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great - Henry Fielding
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The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great - Henry Fielding
  • Author: Henry Fielding
  • Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Satire
This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph Andrews. It is a satire of Walpole that draws a parallel between Walpole and Jonathan Wild, the infamous gang...
War and Peace, Book 05: 1806-1807 - Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace, Book 05: 1806-1807 - Leo Tolstoy
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 of Russian society during the...
A Legend of Montrose - Sir Walter Scott
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A Legend of Montrose - Sir Walter Scott
A Legend of Montrose is one of Sir Walter Scott's Tales of my Landlord. It is set in the tumultuous 17th century during the Earl of Montrose's military campaign in Scotland. Allan M'Aulay and his friend Lord Menteith both serve in Montrose's army,...
The Boy Scout Aviators - George Durston
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The Boy Scout Aviators - George Durston
Follow the adventures of Harry Fleming, Dick Mercer, and Jack Young in this exciting Boy Scout adventure! Harry is an American Boy Scout separated from his country and hometown when his father has to go on a trip to England for business. He joins a...
In Search of Mademoiselle - George Gibbs
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In Search of Mademoiselle - George Gibbs
  • Author: George Gibbs
  • Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Preface note by George Gibbs: There were no more vivid episodes in the colonization of the New World than those resulting from the attempts of the French people to gain a permanent foothold on our shores.... The most thrilling chapter in all this...
The Iliad (Pope Translation) - Homer
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The Iliad (Pope Translation) - Homer
  • Author: Homer
  • Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Historical Fiction / Epics
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 by Alexander Pope is considered by...
Flemington - Violet Jacob
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Flemington - Violet Jacob
This adventure historical fiction novel is set in Angus, Scotland during the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. It has all the elements of a good war novel: spies, betrayals, politics, and even a love story (but not quite what you expect). This is a smart...
With Cortez in Mexico, or By Right of Conquest - G. A. Henty
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With Cortez in Mexico, or By Right of Conquest - G. A. Henty
  • Author: G. A. Henty
  • Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
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 merchant ship destined for the...
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