Historical Fiction
The Gold Sickle
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Eugène Sue
The Gold Sickle; or, Hena the Virgin of the Isle of Sen. A Tale of Druid Gaul is the first part of Eugène Sue's The Mysteries of the …
The World’s Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland
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Eva March Tappan
This is the seventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March …
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police - A Tale of the Macleod Trail
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Ralph Connor
Cameron, a young man from Edinburgh, is a university student who is a rising star on the football team. When the big day comes and he nearly…
Darnley
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George Payne Rainsford James
A stranger rides across the Kentish countryside when his attention is called to a cottage where violence is being done to an elderly couple.…
Anne of Geierstein, Volume 2
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Sir Walter Scott
Anne of Geierstein, or The Maiden of the Mist (1829) is an adventure and romance novel by Sir Walter Scott. It is set in Central Europe, mai…
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Romance of the XVIIth Century
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Baroness Emma Orczy
This historical novel takes place in Kent in 1657, and focuses on a local nobleman who stops at nothing to gain wealth, and his ward who is …
In the Year of Jubilee
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George Gissing
The Jubilee marks the fiftieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria. Dickensian in its sweeping scope of London life, Jubilee depicts the har…
A Farewell to Arms (Version 2)
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Ernest Hemingway
Frederic Henry is an American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army during World War I, who after being severely wounded and ho…
Mrs. Warren's Daughter
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Sir Harry Johnston
Mrs. Warren's Daughter is a continuation, in novel form, of George Bernard Shaw's controversial play, Mrs. Warren's Profession. In the play,…
Magna Carta
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Amice Macdonell
A one-act play which describes the setting and writing of the Magna Carta, including the famous line "now is justice bought and sold&qu…
Rose Mather: A Tale
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Mary Jane Holmes
Fiction merges with history in this novel taking place during the turbulent times of the civil war and the horrors it entailed. Holme's sill…
Self-Control: A Novel (version 2)
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Mary Brunton
Laura Montreville is a well-born and religious girl, brought up in Scotland by her widowed father. She is pursued by Colonel Hargrave, a lib…
The Gods and Mr Perrin
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Hugh Walpole
The book is probably better known under the title ‘Mr Perrin and Mr Traill’, later made into a well-known film in 1948. Perrin and Traill ar…
The Golden Canyon
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G. A. Henty
In August, 1856, times were hard in San Diego. Dick, who worked on the ship, "Northampton", was attacked by a ruthless gang - the …
The Gambler (version 2)
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Katherine Cecil Thurston
The book follows the life of Clodagh Asshlin, an Irish girl brought up with her younger sister by her spendthrift father in the wilds of the…
The Magnificent Adventure (Version 2)
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Emerson Hough
In The Magnificent Adventure-Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman, by Emerson Hou…
Marius the Epicurean, Volume 2
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Walter Pater
The conclusion of Pater's historico-philosophical novel about a young Roman nobleman's search for purpose and meaning. Set in the time of Ca…
The Stone Chest
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G. A. Henty
When the ship, Bluebell, went down, Captain Cromwell and Ruel Gross escaped on a raft, and after several days of suffering, finall…
The Chicago Connection
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John R. Swift
A teenager in Prohibition Chicago, haunted by disasters, breaks all his childhood vows of clean living and becomes a minor hoodlum. When he …
The Gods are Athirst
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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 An…