Historical Fiction
The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt
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Théophile Gautier
The account he gives, in his novel, of the ancient city of Thebes, of the great necropolis in the valley of Biban el Molûk, of the sub…
The Landleaguers
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Anthony Trollope
Near Galway, young Florian Jones has just converted to Catholicism when he witnesses the deliberate destruction of his English father’s land…
The Pioneers
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Katharine S. Prichard
The Pioneers is set against the background of pioneering life in the Gippsland region of Victoria in pre-Federation Australia. Mary and Dona…
Børnene i Nyskoven
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Frederick Marryat
Handlingen foregår i 1600-tallet under den Engelske borgerkrig. Fire forældreløse adelsbørn må flygte fra de…
The Deluge Volume 1
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a th…
Glorious
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Aram Schefrin
On June 25th, 1876, General George Custer died at the Little Big Horn.
Why did Custer rush into battle against the largest agglomeration of …
恩讐の彼方に (Onsyuu no Kanata ni)
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Kan Kikuchi
A samurai story of revenge. Ichikurou killed his master. He got away from Edo (Tokyo) with his lover. They became burglars. Then he became a…
War and Peace, Volume 4 (Maude Translation)
Read by Mark Nelson
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy’s epic historical novel chronicling the Napoleonic war in Russia. Considered one of the greatest works of literature of all time…
Cleopatra
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Georg Ebers
The world knows the fate of the classic lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony, so there is no need to announce a spoiler alert. Georg Ebers was a…
The Mountebank
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Andrew Lackaday, an English orphan, was born and brought up in a French circus. He becomes a highly skilled mimic and juggler. He plies his …
Lady Connie
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
Constance Bledlow is a beautiful monied 20 year old with the world at her feet. She arrives in Oxford to spend a few months with her impover…
Indian Summer
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
William Dean Howells
In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of…
Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World
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Castello Newton Holford
Aristopia (published 1895) is truly an alternative history. It is an imagination of how the continent of North America might have developed…
Anne of Geierstein, Volume 1
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Sir Walter Scott
Anne of Geierstein, or The Maiden of the Mist (1829) is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. It is set in Central Europe, mainly in Switzerland, sho…
The Green Mirror
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Hugh Walpole
Three generations of the Trenchard family, ruled over by the indomitable Mrs Trenchard, live together in comfortable domesticity until Kathe…
Framley Parsonage (version 2)
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Anthony Trollope
Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. It was first published in serial …
Beau Brocade
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Baroness Emma Orczy
Beau Brocade is a historical fiction set in England in the early 1700's. The hero Beau is a wanted highwayman, who takes from the rich to h…
Micah Clarke
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This book tells the story of Micah Clarke's adventures. As a boy he follows his rather romantic notions of what it means to be a soldier and…