Historical Fiction
The Deerslayer - The First Warpath
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James Fenimore Cooper
The Deerslayer, or The First Warpath (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time …
The Vicomte De Bragelonne
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Alexandre Dumas
After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues!The Vicomte of Br…
Pauline's Passion and Punishment
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Louisa May Alcott
Before she wrote Little Women and Little Men, Louisa, writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, had this `blood and thunder' thriller (as sh…
War and Peace, Book 16: First Epilogue 1813-1820
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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,…
The Virginian
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Owen Wister
Ostensibly a love story, the novel really revolves around a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War in 1890's Wyoming ... The …
War and Peace, Book 17: Second Epilogue
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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,…
The Bishop's Secret
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Fergus Hume
Bishop Pendle is the Church of England bishop in a small fictitious English cathedral town. Several years into his work, he receives a visit…
Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Looking for a replacement to Sherlock Holmes after the author had killed him off in 1894, Doyle wrote this murder mystery in the dying years…
A Lady of Quality
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Set in late 1600's England, the story follows the life of a woman living an unconventional life. The loves of her life and all of its ups an…
Beric the Briton: a Story of the Roman Invasion
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G. A. Henty
My series of stories dealing with the wars of England would be altogether incomplete did it not include the period when the Romans were the …
The Fur Country
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Jules Verne
In 1859, officers of the Hudson's Bay Company travel through the Northwest Territories of Canada on a mission to found a fort at 70 degrees,…
The Emperor's Candlesticks
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Baroness Emma Orczy
When a group of Russian anarchists kidnap a Russian prince in Vienna there are repercussions. On learning that the Cardinal d'Orsay has agre…
In Freedom's Cause
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G. A. Henty
Another stirring tale from the master of historical fiction set in the time of Robert Bruce and William Wallace and their struggle for Scotl…
A Journal of the Plague Year
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Daniel Defoe
The novel is a fictionalized account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The boo…
The Midnight Queen
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May Agnes Fleming
May Agnes Fleming is renowned as Canada's first best-selling novelist. She wrote 42 novels, many of which have only been published posthumou…
With Frederick The Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War
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G. A. Henty
Among the great wars of history there are few, if any, instances of so long and successfully sustained a struggle, against enormous odds, as…
A Prairie-Schooner Princess
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Mary Katherine Maule
The story of a Quaker family's journey from Ohio to Nebraska beginning in 1856. They encounter a mystery which leaves them an orphan girl wh…
One of the 28th - a Tale of Waterloo
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G. A. Henty
A tale of Victorian-style romance, maritime battles and even the penultimate Napoleonic battle - Waterloo. (Introduction by Mike Harris)
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity - he is u…
The Tiger of Mysore
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G. A. Henty
During the Indian war with Tippoo Saib, 15 year old Dick Holland and his mother set out from England to find and rescue his father, shipwrec…