Historical Fiction
The Guns of Bull Run
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Joseph A. Altsheler
The first volume in the Civil War series, following the adventures of Harry Kenton, who leaves his home in Kentucky. He travels through dang…
True to the Old Flag
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G. A. Henty
This book tells the story of the American war of Independence from the side of the British. The old flag mentioned in the title is the flag …
North and South (version 2)
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
North and South is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, …
The Point of Honor
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Joseph Conrad
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor i…
The Scottish Chiefs
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Jane Porter
An adventure novel about William Wallace, one of the most popular books ever written by Jane Porter. The French version was even banned by N…
The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy
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Arnold Bennett
The novel opens with Carl Foster, a recently qualified doctor, coming to London to try and make his fortune. He meets a famous tenor, Signor…
The Children of the New Forest
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Frederick Marryat
The children of Colonel Beverley, a Cavalier officer killed at the Battle of Naseby are believed to have died in the flames when their house…
A Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy Of The Korosko
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Also published under the title The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898). A group of European tourists are enjoying their trip to Egypt in the year …
The Secret Battle
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A.P. Herbert and A. P. Herbert
Like many soldiers at the beginning of their military careers, Harry Penrose has romantic ideas of climbing the ranks and attaining hero sta…
Conjuror's House, a Romance of the Free Forest
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Stewart Edward White
In the northern outreaches of the Canadian wilderness, it was understood that the Hudson Bay Company governed all trading, and one factor na…
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
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William Hope Hodgson
Eighteenth-century sailors adrift in a lifeboat encounter strange lands and weird creatures in their search for home. A creepy tale of nauti…
The Conjure Woman
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt's first book, The Conjure Woman, was a collection of seven short stories, all set in "P…
Johnny Reb and Billy Yank
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Alexander Hunter
Johnny Reb & Billy Yank is an epic novel first published in 1905 by Alexander Hunter, a soldier who served in Confederate General Robert…
The Tavern Knight
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Rafael Sabatini
Follow the exploits of Sir Crispin Galliard, also known as The Tavern Knight, in his defence of the King of England against Cromwell and his…
The Eustace Diamonds
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Anthony Trollope
Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace, is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. Wh…
The Sword of Antietam
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Joseph A. Altsheler
"The Sword of Antietam" tells a complete story, but it is one in the chain of Civil War romances, begun in "The Guns of Bull …
Three Soldiers
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John Dos Passos
Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First Worl…
Children of the Ghetto
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Israel Zangwill
In this 1892 novel of London's Jewish East End, Israel Zangwill sets the apparently irrational and decidedly indecorous religious practices …
Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California
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G. A. Henty
When young Frank is falsely accused of a crime, he leaves England to seek adventure in America. He joins a wagon train heading west to the C…
The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
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Ambrose Bierce
A tragic but very captivating tale of a monk in the 17th century.