Historical Fiction

Marguerite de Valois

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Alexandre Dumas


A historical fiction novel set in Paris (1572) during Charles IX's reign and the French Wars of Religion. Marguerite de Valois, daughter of …

The Guns of Bull Run

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Joseph A. Altsheler


The first volume in the Civil War series, following the adventures of Harry Kenton, who leaves his home in Kentucky. He travels through dang…

Salammbo

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Gustave Flaubert


Roman historique situé au 3ème siècle avant JC. La trame du récit raconte la guerre qui oppose Carthage aux merc…

North and South (version 2)

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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, …

True to the Old Flag

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G. A. Henty


This book tells the story of the American war of Independence from the side of the British. The old flag mentioned in the title is the flag …

The Dust Flower

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Basil King


Rashleigh Allerton, a wealthy New Yorker, quarrels with his well-to-do fiancée Barbara and impetuously says that he will marry instea…

The Scottish Chiefs

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Jane Porter


An adventure novel about William Wallace, one of the most popular books ever written by Jane Porter. The French version was even banned by N…

The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy

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Arnold Bennett


The novel opens with Carl Foster, a recently qualified doctor, coming to London to try and make his fortune. He meets a famous tenor, Signor…

The Point of Honor

Read by Mark F. Smith


Joseph Conrad


Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor i…

A Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy Of The Korosko

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Also published under the title The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898). A group of European tourists are enjoying their trip to Egypt in the year …

The Secret Battle

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A.P. Herbert and A. P. Herbert


Like many soldiers at the beginning of their military careers, Harry Penrose has romantic ideas of climbing the ranks and attaining hero sta…

Die Gottesfreundin

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Karl Gjellerup


In seinem historischen Roman Die Gottesfreundin erzählt der Literaturnobelpreisträger Karl Gjellerup die Geschichte einer Liebe zw…

Conjuror's House, a Romance of the Free Forest

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Stewart Edward White


In the northern outreaches of the Canadian wilderness, it was understood that the Hudson Bay Company governed all trading, and one factor na…

The Children of the New Forest

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Frederick Marryat


The children of Colonel Beverley, a Cavalier officer killed at the Battle of Naseby are believed to have died in the flames when their house…

La Tulipe noire

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Alexandre Dumas


Si ce titre évoque pour vous un roman de cape et d'épée, détrompez-vous. Mais ne vous détournez pas !Ce c…

The Conjure Woman

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt


Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt's first book, The Conjure Woman, was a collection of seven short stories, all set in "P…

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'

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William Hope Hodgson


Eighteenth-century sailors adrift in a lifeboat encounter strange lands and weird creatures in their search for home. A creepy tale of nauti…

The Eustace Diamonds

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Anthony Trollope


Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace, is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. Wh…

Three Soldiers

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John Dos Passos


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 Worl…

Johnny Reb and Billy Yank

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Alexander Hunter


Johnny Reb & Billy Yank is an epic novel first published in 1905 by Alexander Hunter, a soldier who served in Confederate General Robert…

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