Historical Fiction
Les anciens canadiens
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Philippe Aubert De Gaspé
Considéré comme l'un des premiers romans du bas-Canada, cette mémoire inclut des légendes québecoises en …
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 Chicago Connection
Read by John R. Swift
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 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…
De Ellendigen - Deel 1 - Fantine
Read by Marcel Coenders
Victor Hugo
De Ellendigen is een vertaling van Les Miserables, een sociale roman, met een sterke moraal. Hugo neemt het in zijn werk op voor de paria’s …
The Magnificent Adventure (Version 2)
Read by Claude Stewart
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…
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…
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…
Son Excellence Eugène Rougon
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Émile Zola
Dans la saga des Rougon-Macquart, « Son Excellence Eugène Rougon » est le roman des intrigues de pouvoir et des solidarit…
Marry Me! Inc.
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RMdeChazal
Marry Me! Inc. is the story of women and men who in 1898 were, in various ways – romantically, entrepreneurially, innocently, nefariously – …
Post Haste
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R. M. Ballantyne
In this book, Ballantyne weaves the story of Phillip Mayland and his friend, George Aspel with an interesting portrayal of the British Post …
Viking Tales (Version 2)
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Jennie Hall
The story follows the life of the Viking Harald from infancy to his crowning as King of Norway. It focuses on the Vikings' eagerness for adv…
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…
The Spanish Brothers
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Deborah Alcock
The daughter of a minister, Deborah Alcock wrote novels on a Christian theme. The Spanish Brothers is set in the sixteenth century and deals…
The Conquest
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Oscar Micheaux
"This is the true story of a negro who was discontented and the circumstances that were the outcome of that discontent." While co…
The Spell of the Yukon
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Robert W. Service
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Spell of the Yukon by Robert W. Service. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Dece…
Consider The Elephant
Read by Aram Schefrin
Aram Schefrin
The common wisdom is that the men who have attacked American Presidents - Czolgosz, Guiteau, Fromme, Hinckley, Moore, Oswald, Zangara - were…
MONARCH: the Big Bear of Tallac
Read by Ernest Thompson Seton
Ernest Thompson Seton
Ernest Thompson Seton's book, "Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac." Published in 1919, it tells the story of a tiny Grizzly cub who g…
The Gray Mills of Farley
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Sarah Orne Jewett
As contemporary today as it was over a century ago, this relatively unsentimental tale of labor relations still packs a punch. (Summary by B…
Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 4: Taking the Bastile
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Alexandre Dumas
This 4th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins several years after the close of "The Queen’s Necklace.” It describes the event…