Historical Fiction
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
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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
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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
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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
Read by Linda Andrus
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
Read by Gary Olman
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…
Historia de Heródoto
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Herodotus
Las Historias (en griego antiguo ἱστορίαι historíai 'aproximaciones, investigaciones') de Heródoto de Halicarnaso (484–despu&e…
Biographien der Selbstmörder
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Christian Heinrich Spieß
Die "Biographien der Selbstmörder" sind keine wirklichen Biographien, sondern eine Sammlung von kurzen Geschichten, die meist…
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…
With Frederick The Great
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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…
One of the 28th
Read by Mike Harris
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…