Historical Fiction - ebooki

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In the whole history of the English people there is no period so absolutely heroic, so full of enthralling interest, as that in which the might of England...

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Walden (also known as Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it...

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This file includes: Among Malay Pirates: a Tales of Adventure and Peril; At Aboukir and Acre: a Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt; At Agincourt; At the...

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The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom...

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An historical novel based on the life of Alexander Bulatovich, a Russian who was an explorer in Ethiopia, a cavalry officer during Russia's conquest of...

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Les Misérables (1862) is a novel by French author Victor Hugo, and among the best-known novels of the 19th century. It follows the lives and interactions of...

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In this serious attempt to forecast the changes ahead in the 20th century from the year 1906, the author deals with the accelerating rate of scientific...

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A semi-autobiographical novel by an early feminist New Zealand author, Ellen E. Ellis. The character Wrax is a debased version of the author's husband...

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This file includes: Marguerite de Valois, The Black Tulip, The Companions of Jehu, The Conspirators, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Forty-Five Guardsmen,...

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His portrait of Catherine Howard, impulsive, warm-hearted, truth-speaking, yet daring admidst the most un-principled intrigue, is singularly attractive and...

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Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. Published in the same year as Friedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in...

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First published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. It is...

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The Virginians was written in the year 1859 by William Makepeace Thackeray. This book is one of the most popular novels of William Makepeace Thackeray, and...

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A Dream of John Ball (1888) is a novel by English author William Morris about the English peasants' revolt of 1381 and the rebel John Ball. Like the novels...

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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published on November 12, 1880 by Harper & Brothers. Wallace's work is part of an important...

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Ancient Rome, AD 408: Young Antonia had the misfortune to live in interesting times -- the days when mighty Rome was brought low by the terror of the Goths.

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Peter Hargitai’s Barbarian Phantasy explores how extraordinary prophecy can lurk behind ordinary events, in historical times, in the banal, in the bathetic,...

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The Fifth Queen Crowned was written in the year 1908 by Ford Madox Ford. This book is one of the most popular novels of Ford Madox Ford, and has been...

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Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester between 1839 and...