Historical Fiction

Из жизни щепок (Борис Акунин)

Read by Александр Клюквин



Из жизни щепок (Борис Акунин) Москва, 1883. В своей московской конторе отравлен Леонард фон Мак, владелец крупной железнодорожной компании.…

His Masterpiece

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Émile Zola


“His Masterpiece" (“L’Oeuvre”) is a fictionalized account of the Parisian art world in the mid 19th century, and the emerging Realism, …

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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William Makepeace Thackeray


First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel…

Windsor Castle, Book 1

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William Harrison Ainsworth


Book 1 - Anne Boleyn. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as h…

Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf

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George W. M. Reynolds


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 t…

Richard of Jamestown: A Story of the Virginia Colony

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James Otis


Richard of Jamestown by James Otis was written for children with the purpose to show them the daily home life of the Virginia colonists. It …

'Tilda Jane

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Marshall Saunders


When spunky 'Tilda Jane isn't allowed to keep her beloved dog with her at the orphanage, she decides to set out on her own in search of a ho…

Der Heilige

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Conrad Ferdinand Meyer


Die Rahmenhandlung der Novelle "Der Heilige" bildet Hans der Armbruster, der im Jahre 1180 im Rückblick die dramatische Leben…

The Keeper of the Bees

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Gene Stratton-Porter


Threatened with isolation in a sanitorium for tuberculosis, a young soldier escapes and finds himself healing in a paradisal bee-garden by t…

The Forty-Five Guardsmen

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Alexandre Dumas


The sequel to "Chicot the Jester" and final book of the "Valois Romances." This story begins six years after the famed &…

Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson


The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreord…

Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country

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Irving Bacheller


Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country. Having lost both parents and his home in northern Vermont, orphan Willie Brower is taken in by Eb…

The Mill on the Floss (Version 2)

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George Eliot


The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the l…

The Maid of Maiden Lane (dramatic reading)

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Amelia E. Barr


The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Mrs. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in …

The Trumpet-Major

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Thomas Hardy


Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments pr…

The Spoilers

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Rex Beach


Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan to a prominent family and pursued a career as a lawyer before being drawn to Alaska at the time of th…

Windsor Castle, Book 2

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William Harrison Ainsworth


Book 2 - Herne the Hunter. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn…

Die Ahnen, Bd. I.1 Ingo

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Gustav Freytag


Der Vandalenprinz Ingo wird im Jahre 357 von den Römern aus seiner Heimat am Rhein vertrieben und findet Zuflucht bei einem Gastfreund …

Septimus

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William John Locke


The book concerns the tangled lives of four people: Zora, a young widow who seeks some purpose in her life; Septimus Dix, an other-wordly bu…

The Reign of King Edward the Third

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William Shakespeare


The Reign of King Edward the Third is an Elizabethan play printed anonymously in 1596. It has frequently been claimed that it was at least p…

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