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Historical Fiction.

Step back in time with our handpicked historical fiction, where the drama of the past leaps off the page. From the French Revolution in A Tale of Two Cities to the antebellum South in The Prophets, these stories capture the resilience of the human spirit. Lose yourself in timeless tales that have shaped our world.

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The Song of the Lark

by Willa Cather

A gifted girl from a small Colorado town follows her voice toward the world of grand opera.

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My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

Willa Cather's luminous elegy for the American prairie.

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O Pioneers!

Willa Cather's luminous prairie novel follows a strong-willed Swedish immigrant woman who tames the wild Nebraska land her father could not, and pays for her success in love and lo

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The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

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The Deerslayer

In his youth on a wilderness lake, the hunter Natty Bumppo faces his first battles and his first hard moral tests.

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The Pioneers

by James Fenimore Cooper

On the New York frontier, ageing woodsman Natty Bumppo clashes with the settlers and laws reshaping the wilderness he loves.

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The Pathfinder

by James Fenimore Cooper

The frontier scout Natty Bumppo guides a party through the Great Lakes country and, unexpectedly, into matters of the heart.

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The Black Tulip

by Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas turns seventeenth-century Holland, political danger, and tulip fever into a fast-moving historical adventure.

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Queen Margot

by Alexandre Dumas

A fast-moving historical novel of royal marriage, court intrigue, and sectarian conflict in sixteenth-century France.

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Twenty Years After

by Alexandre Dumas

Two decades on, the four musketeers reunite amid civil war and shifting loyalties, older and no longer all on the same side.

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The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

A young Gascon named d'Artagnan comes to Paris to make his fortune with a sword and falls in with three inseparable comrades.

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The Man in the Iron Mask

by Alexandre Dumas

The ageing musketeers are drawn into a perilous royal secret and a plot that could topple a king.

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Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Two women, one scheming and one sweet, make their way through a glittering, mercenary society during the Napoleonic era.

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Mary Barton

Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel plunges into the hungry streets of industrial Manchester, tracing a working family through strike, love and a murder that binds masters and men in s

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North and South

by Elizabeth Gaskell

A richly observed Victorian novel of industry, class, conscience, and slow-burning romance by Elizabeth Gaskell.

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Shirley

by Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë's ambitious social novel.

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Barnaby Rudge

by Dickens, Charles

Charles Dickens's sweeping historical novel of riot and unrest.

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Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo’s vast and humane masterpiece of justice, mercy, revolution, and the moral lives that unfold under historical pressure.

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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas's grand tale of betrayal, imprisonment, hidden treasure, and meticulous revenge.

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Emerging Voices

The Prophets

Robert Jones Jr.'s searing, lyrical debut.

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War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy's sweeping saga captures the chaos of war and the quiet dramas of the heart, weaving together the lives of aristocrats, soldiers, and dreamers against the backdrop of Napol

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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the stark shadows of Puritan New England, Hester Prynne’s scarlet 'A' becomes a symbol of sin and resilience, a haunting meditation on guilt, identity, and the oppressive weight

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A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

Against the backdrop of revolution, Dickens weaves a tale of love, sacrifice, and the shadow of the guillotine.

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