Historical Fiction
Cherry and Violet
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Anne Manning
A Tale of the Great Plague. 1666 was a difficult year in London. With its sordid materialism and its coarse handling of things most sacred, …
The Prince and the Pauper (Version 4 - Dramatic Reading)
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Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive …
Hooge Troeven
Read by Marcel Coenders
Louis Couperus
Het derde en laatste deel van de koningsromans van Louis Couperus voorgelezen ter gelegenheid van de kroning van Koning Willem-Alexander en …
Marie Antoinette and Her Son
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Luise Mühlbach
Marie Antoinette lives a happy life in a glittering court as Queen of France, but that soon changes as the revolution begins. Her son is Lo…
The Reign of George VI, 1900-1925: A Forecast Written in the Year 1763
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Samuel Madden, Charles Oman and Charles William Chadwick Oman
Imagine a world in which there were no major revolutionary upheavals (the American, French and Russian revolutions did not occur), there was…
In Old Plantation Days
Read by Jim Locke
Paul Laurence Dunbar
With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern p…
The Head of the House of Coombe
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
While renowned for her beloved children's literature, Frances Hodgson Burnett's talent extended to historical novels. Originally serialized …
In Sight of the Sun
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Benjamin Dancer
The first book in The Father Trilogy: In Sight of the Sun. The old man takes the boy on his first raid into Mexico. The success of the rai…
Longhead: The Story of the First Fire
Read by Nick Bulka
C. H. Robinson
A fictionalized version of the self-discovery of primitive man, including: fire, cooking, defense and protection, architecture, community,…
The New Republic; or Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House
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William Hurrell Mallock
A group of upper class men and women gather together in an English country house to discuss their ideas for a utopia (their "New Republ…
Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem
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Sutton Griggs
Imperium in Imperio is a historical fiction novel by Sutton Griggs, published in 1899. The novel covers the life of Belton Piedmont, an educ…