Historical Fiction
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…
From the Life of a Good-For-Nothing
Read by Christoph Stangenberg
Joseph Von Eichendorff
The main character leaves his parental home to earn his own livelihood. During his journey, he falls in love with Aurelie but believes she i…
Cup of Gold
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John Steinbeck
Steinbeck's first novel, a historical fiction account of Henry (Captain) Morgan. The title comes from his sacking of Panama City which was …
Pan Michael: An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey
Read by David Granville Young
Henryk Sienkiewicz
This is the third part of the Sienkiewicz trilogy. It is loosely based on the politics of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.It is better kn…
The Rover (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
Possessed "of a passion weary of itself", elderly ex-privateer Peyrol is driven by "a sudden impulse of scorn, of magnanimity…
Hoe hij raad van Indië werd
Read by Marcel Coenders
Paul Adriaan Daum
Dit boek beschrijft de loopbaan van een middelmatig ambtenaar, die dankzij de invloed en intriges van zijn twee echtgenotes de hoogste funct…
The Fifth Queen Crowned
Read by Mark Leder
Ford Madox Ford
This is the final book of Ford's The Fifth Queen trilogy, a series of historical novels presenting a fictionalized version of the life of Ka…
The Underdogs
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Mariano Azuela
A historical, revolutionary novel from a first-person narration of the Mexican Revolution in the 1910s. The author was a military medic …
El Visitador
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José Milla Y Vidaurre
Novela histórica situada en el Reino de Guatemala a inicios del siglo XVI. En ella se conjuntan intrigas palaciegas, pasiones y venga…
The Rush for the Spoil, Book Two of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
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Émile Zola
Book Two of Zola's 20-volume Rougon-Macquart Cycle. "The Rush for the Spoil" ("La Curee") concerns Aristide Siccard (on…