Historical Fiction
Gaspar Ruiz
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Joseph Conrad
This story takes place during the wars of South American independence against Spanish rule. Gaspar Ruiz, a former Spanish soldier thrust int…
A Dream of John Ball
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William Morris
A Dream of John Ball recounts a dream of being transported back in time to 1381 during the Peasants' Revolt as John Ball and an army of peas…
Jack Sheppard: A Romance
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William Harrison Ainsworth
The fictionalized exploits of the very real English outlaw, Jack Sheppard. Published in 1839, this Newgate novel outsold its rival, Dickens'…
The Underdogs
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Mariano Azuela
A historical, revolutionary novel from a first-person narration of the Mexican Revolution in the 1910s. The author was a military medic …
The Primitive
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Chester Himes
A nerve-twisting novel of passion and destruction (Summary by a literary critic)
The Rover (Version 2)
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Joseph Conrad
Possessed "of a passion weary of itself", elderly ex-privateer Peyrol is driven by "a sudden impulse of scorn, of magnanimity…
Lord Montagu's Page
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George Payne Rainsford James
A young man is crossing the English Channel bound for France. It is obviously not his first such trip, but who is he and what is his errand?…
From the Life of a Good-For-Nothing
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Joseph Von Eichendorff
The main character leaves his parental home to earn his own livelihood. During his journey, he falls in love with Aurelie but believes she i…
Dorothy's Double: The Story of a Great Deception, Volume 1
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G. A. Henty
Trouble comes to the Hawtrey home when mysterious letters and incidents threaten the innocence of Dorothy Hawtrey. Captain Hampton, on old f…
Fortune's Fool
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Rafael Sabatini
This novel follows the adventures of the handsome but impecunious Colonel Randal Holles, as he seeks to escape the misfortunes of his past. …
The Cloister and the Hearth (version 2)
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Charles Reade
Set in the 15th century, the Cloister and the Hearth is a story Gerald Eliassoen, a young scribe and illuminator, who travels through seven …
Tattlings of a Retired Politician
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Forrest Crissey
"The letters (non-partisan) of Hon. William Bradley, Ex-Governor and former veteran of practical politics, written to his friend and pr…
The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races
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Oscar Micheaux
This novel investigates the black urban community of the early twentieth century, highlighting the base degradation and violence there. But …
Moonraker
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F. Tennyson Jesse
Young Jackie runs away to sea and before long his ship is captured by pirates. Now sailing with the Moonraker and its captain, Jacky reaches…
By Shore and Sedge
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Bret Harte
By Shore and Sedge is a small volume of three short stories that examine the lives of people living on the coast of California and in the de…
Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War
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Kirk Munroe
The principal incidents in the story of Coacoochee, as related in the following pages, are historically true. The Seminole War, the most pro…
Canadian Battlefields and Other Poems
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John Richardson Wilkinson
Canadian Battlefields And Other Poems is an important historical record of Canadian soldiers participating in wars prior to 1899. - Summar…
Don Sebastian; or, The House of the Braganza: An Historical Romance, Volume 4
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Anna Maria Porter
Now living peacefully with his young family as an anonymous exile, Don Sebastian has just received word that the queen of England will back …
Saxby: a tale of old and new England
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Emma Leslie
Set in the 17th Century, this book tells of the backdrop to the settlement of New England in the American Colonies: the struggles of the Chu…
The Poems and Some Satires of Andrew Marvell
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Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell is a man of many faces, in both poetry and politics. A master of the pastoral dialogue, he can equally well fire out a Juvena…