Historical Fiction
The Armourer's Prentices
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
Set in the sixteenth century, two young boys are left orphans and are turned out of their home by their older brother, or, more particularly…
Round About a Great Estate
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Richard Jefferies
John Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) wrote of country life, natural history, and agricultural practice at a time when the industrial revolutio…
Darnley
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George Payne Rainsford James
A stranger rides across the Kentish countryside when his attention is called to a cottage where violence is being done to an elderly couple.…
Son Excellence Eugène Rougon
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Émile Zola
Dans la saga des Rougon-Macquart, « Son Excellence Eugène Rougon » est le roman des intrigues de pouvoir et des solidarit…
Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri
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William James Mcglothlin
Apollonius of Tyre is the subject of an ancient short novella, popular during medieval times. Existing in numerous forms in many languages, …
Mrs. Warren's Daughter
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Sir Harry Johnston
Mrs. Warren's Daughter is a continuation, in novel form, of George Bernard Shaw's controversial play, Mrs. Warren's Profession. In the play,…
Magna Carta
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Amice Macdonell
A one-act play which describes the setting and writing of the Magna Carta, including the famous line "now is justice bought and sold&qu…
Anne of Geierstein, Volume 2
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Sir Walter Scott
Anne of Geierstein, or The Maiden of the Mist (1829) is an adventure and romance novel by Sir Walter Scott. It is set in Central Europe, mai…
Les anciens canadiens
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Philippe Aubert De Gaspé
Considéré comme l'un des premiers romans du bas-Canada, cette mémoire inclut des légendes québecoises en …
In the Year of Jubilee
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George Gissing
The Jubilee marks the fiftieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria. Dickensian in its sweeping scope of London life, Jubilee depicts the har…
Rose Mather: A Tale
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Mary Jane Holmes
Fiction merges with history in this novel taking place during the turbulent times of the civil war and the horrors it entailed. Holme's sill…
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Romance of the XVIIth Century
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Baroness Emma Orczy
This historical novel takes place in Kent in 1657, and focuses on a local nobleman who stops at nothing to gain wealth, and his ward who is …
Viking Tales (Version 2)
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Jennie Hall
The story follows the life of the Viking Harald from infancy to his crowning as King of Norway. It focuses on the Vikings' eagerness for adv…
Self-Control: A Novel (version 2)
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Mary Brunton
Laura Montreville is a well-born and religious girl, brought up in Scotland by her widowed father. She is pursued by Colonel Hargrave, a lib…
The Chicago Connection
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John R. Swift
A teenager in Prohibition Chicago, haunted by disasters, breaks all his childhood vows of clean living and becomes a minor hoodlum. When he …
The Gambler (version 2)
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Katherine Cecil Thurston
The book follows the life of Clodagh Asshlin, an Irish girl brought up with her younger sister by her spendthrift father in the wilds of the…
The Magnificent Adventure (Version 2)
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Emerson Hough
In The Magnificent Adventure-Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman, by Emerson Hou…
The Gods and Mr Perrin
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Hugh Walpole
The book is probably better known under the title ‘Mr Perrin and Mr Traill’, later made into a well-known film in 1948. Perrin and Traill ar…
De Ellendigen - Deel 1 - Fantine
Read by Marcel Coenders
Victor Hugo
De Ellendigen is een vertaling van Les Miserables, een sociale roman, met een sterke moraal. Hugo neemt het in zijn werk op voor de paria’s …