Historical Fiction
For God And Gold
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Julian Corbett
Sir Julian Stafford Corbett was a prominent navy historian and geologist. This semi-autobiographical novel tells about the start: the person…
The Perfect Tribute
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Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
Part 1 of this brief historical fiction is a recounting of the day before and the day of Lincoln's delivery of The Gettysburg Address. Part …
The Boy Knight: A Tale Of The Crusades
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G. A. Henty
Follow young Cuthbert on his adventures which lead him on a crusade to the Holy Land and back. - Summary by Sonia
On the Red Staircase
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Mary Imlay Taylor
"“The Czarevitch Ivan is said to be indifferent to the high office,” I replied, in a low tone; “he is blind.”“Ay, and deformed!” said t…
Tom Clark and His Wife, the Rosicrucian's Story
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P. B. Randolph
One day, during the progress of a long and interesting conversation on the nature of that mysterious thing called the human soul, and in whi…
Abbe Mouret's Transgression, Book Five of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
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Émile Zola
This, the fifth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart Cycle, serves effectively as a sequel to "The Conquest of Plassans". Serge Mouret…
The Magpie
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Douglas Durkin
In the aftermath of World War I, even the victors are rocked by social upheaval, as returning soldiers expect a reward for their war-time sa…
Dorothy's Double: The Story of a Great Deception, Volume 2
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G. A. Henty
This novel by G.A Henty, the second in a trilogy, continues the mystery of impersonation and stolen jewellery involving Dorothy Hawtrey. She…
Sir Charles Danvers
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Mary Cholmondeley
The book is a romance with intrigue that involves secret identity and a a bigamous marriage, which centres around the romance between the ro…
Don Sebastian; or, The House of the Braganza: An Historical Romance, Volume 1
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Anna Maria Porter
Romantic history of the fictional Don Sebastian, which was suggested to the author by a plaque commemorating a mysterious "Portuguese s…
His Excellency Eugene Rougon, Book Six of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
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Émile Zola
Here, in Zola's sixth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, we get to know Pierre and Felicite's eldest son, Eugene. He's the son that made …