Historical Fiction
The Actress in High Life: An Episode in Winter Quarters
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Susan Petigru King-Bowen
1812 is the year and Portugal the location for this adventure. The characters for the most part are British officers. Lord Strathern sends f…
Die Geschichte meines Zeitgenossen
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Vladimir Korolenko
Poetische Beschreibung der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse in der russischen Provinz des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts (mit teilweise au…
The Flight of the Shadow
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Laura M. Dake
The original printing of The Flight of the Shadow is a highly sought novel among collectors and tells the tale of an Astral soul who tells a…
The Robbers Cave: a Tale of Italy
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Charlotte Maria Tucker
Sixteen-year-old Horace Cleveland thinks of nobody but himself. While traveling with his mother across the Calabrian countryside on their wa…
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…
Order Number 11
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Caroline Abbot Stanley
General Order No. 11 has been issued by Union General Thomas Ewing in 1863. The goal was to deprive pro-Confederates in western Missouri of …
Privy Seal: His Last Venture
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Ford Madox Ford
This is the second book in Ford's Fifth Queen trilogy, a series of historical novels presenting a fictionalized version of the life of Katha…
Richelieu: A Tale of France
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George Payne Rainsford James
Written in three volumes, this fictionalized biography of Richelieu is supposedly based on a manuscript that fell into the author's hands an…
By the Marshes of Minas
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Sir Charles G. D. Roberts and Charles G. D. Roberts
The Acadians around the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada, were removed by the British forcibly, leading to a French presence in several E…
Peter und Alexej
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Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Historischer Roman über den russischen Zaren Peter I. Mit großer Authentizität schildert der Autor den Reformprozess, der un…
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…