Books tagged with Historical[68 found]
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Double Harness
by Anthony Hope
(2)
Categories: Fiction » Historical
Grantley Imason and Sibylla Chiddingfold enter marriage with charm, pride, and dangerous illusions. Around them, friends and family debate love, duty, freedom, and compromise in Anthony Hope’s sharp Edwardian society novel about the uneasy “double harness” of married life.
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Taking the Bastile Or, Pitou the Peasant
by Alexandre Dumas
(1)
Categories: Fiction » Historical » French Revolution
Young Ange Pitou is swept from rural France into the storm of 1789, where love, ambition, royal intrigue, and revolutionary fury collide. Alexandre Dumas brings the fall of the Bastille to life through adventure, romance, and the rise of a peasant caught in history’s fire.
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Under the Broad Pennant — Book 3 in the Anthony Carter Sea Adventures
by Peter Argonis
(7)
Categories: Fiction » Historical » Regency
This is the third instalment of the Anthony Carter Sea Adventures, showing our hero as commodore and squadron commander in the Mediterranean and in Caribbean waters. The first six chapters are revised from the original, In The Navy, but starting with Chapter 7, Anthony's story in the last years of the Napoleonic Wars and during the War of 1812 is told.
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Ascanio
by Alexandre Dumas
(3)
Categories: Fiction » Historical » Renaissance
In the glittering court of Francis I, young sculptor Ascanio is caught between devotion to his master Benvenuto Cellini and a dangerous love for Colombe, daughter of the Provost of Paris. Art, jealousy, royal favor, and deadly intrigue collide in this lush Dumas romance of Renaissance France.
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Elcano and the First Circumnavigation of the World
by Mark West
(4)
Categories: Fiction » Historical » Medieval
The first circumnavigation of the world between 1519 and 1522 is generally erroneously attributed to Fernando Magellan, but actually completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano after the death of Magellan in what is now the Philippines. The documents that relate to the life of this man are scarce.
This is an imagined account of the life of Elcano up to the point of joining Magellan's fleet.
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Young Thomas Grey
by Peter Argonis
(31)
Categories: Fiction » Historical » United Kingdom
At 11 years of age, Thomas Grey goes to sea as a volunteer in a small sloop of war, commanded by his father, to learn seamanship prior to joining the Royal Naval Academy. Thomas has to mature beyond his years, surviving sea battles and yellow fever, but he joins the Academy as an accomplished sailor and leader in the making, finding friends for life in the process. First Book in the Series.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
(1)
Categories: Fiction » Historical
Betrayed on the eve of his wedding and buried alive in a fortress, a guileless sailor learns of a hidden treasure, escapes, and returns remade as a mysterious aristocrat. From salons to courtrooms he engineers exquisite reckonings for those who ruined him—yet the innocent he rescues teach him that justice without mercy can turn a man’s triumph into another prison.
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Lady Lambert's Adventures
by Peter Argonis
(21)
Categories: Fiction » Historical » Regency
As Richard's wife, Ellen is now styled Lady Lambert and travels America, India, Egypt, Bavaria and France at his side, meeting many people and having adventures on the way. She becomes a patron of the arts, a confidante of the young Princess Victoria, and a matchmaker for her family, friends and protégés, always striving to share the good fortunes she enjoys herself. Rewritten with added content.
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Rough Waters — Book 2 in the Anthony Carter Sea Adventures
by Peter Argonis
(11)
Categories: Fiction » Historical » Regency
Anthony Carter is back! Now a senior captain and married to Harriet, he faces challenges in his professional and private live, encountering Caribbean pirates, arrogant colonial officers, Irish traitors, French soldiers, a lunatic admiral, and a pitched naval battle in the Bay of Biscay. In all this, he and Harriet must realise that married life is no endless honeymoon. Rough waters indeed.
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Thomas Grey & His Friends
by Peter Argonis
(17)
Categories: Fiction » Historical » Regency
With the year 1818 starting, Thomas expects better times for his family and lands. Yet, the year starts with a tragedy, and the following events have him meet boyhood friends but also encounter underhanded enemies. In the end, there are four weddings and a funeral, but there are also new adventures in the offing.
A brand-new Thomas Grey story for your enjoyment!
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Ellen Trilby
by Peter Argonis
(21)
Categories: Fiction » Historical » Regency
On a rainy spring day, Ellen Trilby appears on Anthony Carter's estate, asking for shelter. She is the daughter of Major George Trilby and his wife Siobhan, both dear friends of Harriet Carter, escaping an unwanted suitor. At odds with the Carters' son Richard at first, they grow together through tragedy and danger, but they must overcome their own insecurities before they can become a couple.
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Anthony Carter and the Admiral's Daughter — Book 1 in the Anthony Carter Sea Adventures
by Peter Argonis
(16)
Categories: Fiction » Historical » Regency
When 18-year-old Anthony Carter, lowly second mate in a small schooner, and Harriet Lambert, the young, arrogant daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, barely survive a shipwreck, they recognise each other's mettles. A short-lived romance ensues, but it takes years and great perils and pains for them to find happiness together. A romance set during the Napoleonic Wars.
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English Jim & the Baltimore Rose
by Peter Argonis
(18)
Categories: Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier
Wounded in the Crimean War and embittered by his fiancée's betrayal, Captain James Tremayne leaves England for America and becomes a digger during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. 'Baltimore Rose' Donegal is a saloon wench and convict who in 1861 crosses his path in Fort Laramie. Read how two people from worlds apart overcome bitterness and hurt, growing to respect and love each other.
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The Golden Ledger: Vol.8 - The Fever Year
by BillMax
Categories: Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier
The good years are over. A land boom breaks, a fever spreads out of Riverport, and old friends start to fall one by one. Caleb Walker has survived poverty. Now he has to find out whether his family, and his conscience, can survive hard times...
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The Golden Ledger: Vol.5 - Showdown on Wall Street
by BillMax
Categories: Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier
When a fortune grows too fast, people start asking where it came from. Caleb Walker’s rivals mean to make those questions stick, and while they dig through his books, the real test is waiting at home...
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The Golden Ledger: Vol.3
by BillMax
Categories: Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier
By 1875, Caleb Walker's name was known across the territory. His family is moving into a grand mansion, and his businesses are ready for the biggest stage of all: the Exchange, where fortunes are made and lost in a single day.
The Golden Ledger has a new surprise waiting there. But so do his enemies. When a rival sets out to wreck one of his companies, Caleb faces his first real public cri
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Love and liberty
by Alexandre Dumas
Categories: Fiction » Historical » French Revolution
Love, danger, and revolution collide in Dumas’s stirring tale of France in 1792. As ordinary lives are swept into the fire of political upheaval, loyalty, passion, and courage are tested against the chaos of liberty’s birth. A classic historical romance for fans of revolution, intrigue, and grand adventure.
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Chicot the Jester
by Alexandre Dumas
Categories: Fiction » Historical
At the decadent court of Henri III, the razor-witted Chicot moves through plots, rivalries, and deadly loyalties while a passionate love story unfolds in the shadow of political chaos. Dumas delivers swordplay, court scandal, and sharp humor in a sweeping Renaissance adventure packed with danger and intrigue.
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100%: The Story of a Patriot
by Upton Sinclair
Categories: Fiction » Historical » USA
Hungry, broke, and desperate, Peter Gudge is swept into a bombing scandal and remade into a “100% American” tool of police, politicians, and private power. Upton Sinclair’s fierce political novel exposes patriotic hysteria, labor repression, spies, and propaganda in wartime America.
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Balsamo the Magician
by Alexandre Dumas
Categories: Fiction » Historical
Before the French Revolution erupts, the mysterious Joseph Balsamo moves through palaces, conspiracies, séances, and secret plots, bending fear and fascination to his will. Dumas blends royal scandal, forbidden influence, and supernatural menace into a sweeping historical page-turner of prophecy, seduction, and power.
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