Historical Fiction

War and Peace, Book 14: 1812

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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 Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Vol. 1

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Giacomo Casanova


This is the first of five volumes. - Giacomo Casanova (1725 in Venice – 1798 in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Vene…

The Black Arrow - A Tale of the Two Roses

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Robert Louis Stevenson


The Black Arrow tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of the Roses: how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sed…

Sense and Sensibility (version 2)

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Jane Austen


This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal struggle for creating “sense and sensibility” in its world. A potential marriag…

War and Peace, Book 13: 1812

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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, firs…

Treasure Island (version 5)

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Robert Louis Stevenson


Treasure Island is an adventure novel narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Traditionally considered a coming-of-age s…

Antony and Cleopatra

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William Shakespeare


Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607. It was first printed…

War and Peace, Book 15: 1812-1813

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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 Adventures of Gerard

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


These lesser known stories were penned by Conan Doyle during the period between killing off Sherlock Holmes in 1893 and reluctantly resurrec…

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…

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 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 Little Duke

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Charlotte Mary Yonge


The Little Duke by Charlotte M. Yonge is historical fiction based on the the life of Richard, Duke of Normandy. He assumes the title of Duke…

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…

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 Children of the New Forest (version 2)

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Frederick Marryat


The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is set in the time of the English Civil War …

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…

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…

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…

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