Best Historical Books

Best Free Historical Books of 2024

Taken by the Enemy Book Reviews
Oliver Optic
A lively story based at the very start of America's great Civil War. I absolutely loved the nautical twist this book gave to a popular period in our nation's history. Oli...
The Caged Lion Book Reviews
Charlotte Mary Yonge
The novel opens in the year 1421. England, though engaged in warfare in France, enjoys peace and prosperity at home, but Scotland is in a state of anarchy. Its king, James I, the c...
Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours Book Reviews
Various Authors
The aim has been to keep the lists brief and to give short, practical outlines which may be extended. Since library storytelling is directed primarily toward inspirational reading,...
The Last Look Book Reviews
William Henry Giles Kingston
It is in the middle of the sixteenth century, and in Spain, where the Inquisition, and subsequent torturing and burning to death by the Catholic of those who would not agree to its...
The Betrayals of Ancestry Book Reviews
Amy Lunderman
If you knew of someone’s future plans, would you try to twist them to your liking? Find out, when two children of feuding Lords, take matters into their own hands. Prudence has alw...
The Texan Star Book Reviews
Joseph Alexander Altsheler
The story begins in Mexico City where Stephen Austin and his young friend Ned are in jail. Ned manages to escape and begins the adventure of traveling back to Texas to warn the oth...
The Minute Boys of Boston Book Reviews
James Otis
Archie Hemming is as straightheaded a boy as was ever raised in Boston town, and he insists that, while we are seemingly idling our time away here in the Cambridge camp, I ought to...
The Boy Crusaders Book Reviews
John George Edgar
It was the age of chain armour and tournamentsof iron barons and barons' warsof pilgrims and armed pilgrimagesof forests and forest outlawswhen Henry III. reigned as ...
Knowing Yourself - A Medieval Romance Book Reviews
Lisa Shea
Kay is entranced with the possibilities which lie before her. Five handsome, willing men are vying for her hand in marriage. The stakes are ownership of a medieval keep perched on ...
A Little Maid of Ticonderoga Book Reviews
Alice Turner Curtis
This is the story of a little girl whose home was among the Green Mountains of Vermont, then known as 'The Wilderness', at the beginning of the American Revolution; and a...
On The Blockade Book Reviews
Oliver Optic
The writer begs to remind his readers again that he has not felt called upon to invest his story with the dignity of history, or in all cases to mingle fiction with actual historic...
Voice of Gods Book Reviews
Eleanor Herman
"Readers who love myth and magic will devour it!" Alex Flinn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beastly "Fantasy just the way I like it." Cinda Williams C...
A Victorious Union Book Reviews
Oliver Optic
It is more than thirty years since the war began, and thousands upon thousands of the active participants in the strife as soldiers and sailors, including nearly all the great comm...
A Little Princess Book Reviews
Frances Hodgson Burnett
This book about Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
In Wild Rose Time Book Reviews
Amanda M. Douglas
This is a romance book. They dropped in at the open window, and landed on Virginia Deering’s lap. Her first impulse was to throw them out again, as she half said to herself, “I hat...
Sapho Book Reviews
Alphonse Daudet
Ces bouts de phrases, presque inintelligibles au milieu des cris, des rires, des airs de danse dune fête travestie, séchangeaient une nuit de juin entre un pifferaro et une femme...
Prince of Macedonia Book Reviews
Katherine Roberts
This first episode of Katherine Roberts' epic novel "I am the Great Horse" tells how the young Prince Alexander tames the spirited stallion nobody else could master,...
Pollyanna Book Reviews
Eleanor Hodgman Porter
I have married a mountain woman, he wrote. "None of your puny breed of modern femininity, but a remnant left over from the heroic ages, a primitive woman, grand and vast of s...
The Trumpet-Major Book Reviews
Thomas Hardy
It concerns the heroine, Anne Garland, being pursued by three suitors: John Loveday, the eponymous trumpet major in a British regiment, honest and loyal; his brother Bob, a flighty...
Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas Book Reviews
Various Authors
This collection of Indian stories is the first in a series of volumes of historic tales retold from "St. Nicholas". This bird, which, according to the Indian leg...
A Little Maid of Province Town Book Reviews
Alice Turner Curtis
It is a historical book. Plucky eight year old Anne Nelson, living in Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod, is determined to bring the Revolutionary War to an end so that she can be...
The Pigeon Pie Book Reviews
Charlotte Mary Yonge
The tale is set in 1651, at the close of the Civil War. The Royalists have been defeated at the battle of Worcester, and King Charles II and his followers are in flight. The chief ...
St. George and St. Michael Volume II Book Reviews
George MacDonald
Tensions are rising between king and parliament, the Church of England and the numerous independent puritans, and rumours abound that Charles I will soon declare open war on the di...
Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter Book Reviews
Alice Turner Curtis
This is a historical book. Sylvia Fulton, a little Boston girl, was staying with her father and mother in the beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina, just before the opening ...
The Drummer Boy Book Reviews
John Townsend Trowbridge
J. T. Trowbridge's story of young man's desire to go to war and the harsh reality that he faces on the battlefields. Also known as, The Story of Frank Manly's Advent...
The Shadow of the North Book Reviews
Joseph Alexander Altsheler
This book is a popular juvenile historical fiction. While an independent story, in itself, is also the second volume of the Great French and Indian War series.
The Shades of the Wilderness Book Reviews
Joseph Alexander Altsheler
This exciting fiction book tells about the civil war history. It is a part of the civil war series. This book is also meant for kids so as to relate to historical events.
Fast in the Ice Book Reviews
Robert Michael Ballantyne
At the age of 16 Ballantyne went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. His rule in writing, being in every case, was to write as far as possi...
The Dare Boys of 1776 Book Reviews
Stephen Angus Cox
Younger readers with an interest in history and battlefield action will appreciate this thrilling fictionalized account of the Revolutionary War. Part of the popular "Dare Boy...
With Frederick the Great Book Reviews
George Alfred Henty
Among the great wars of history there are few, if any, instances of so long and successfully sustained a struggle, against enormous odds, as that of the Seven Years' War, main...
The Lords of the Wild Book Reviews
Joseph Alexander Altsheler
This book tells the story of the times when settlers were trying it very difficult to establish themselves in the new land. The native Indians and the difficult geographical situat...
A Little Girl of Long Ago Book Reviews
Amanda Minnie Douglas
This is a novel book. A chance like this roused the children to a pitch of the wildest enthusiasm. Wonderful posters were put up. It was not considered a circus at all, but a moral...
Company K, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry Book Reviews
Andrew Brown
This is a history book. Since war has been teacher, farmer, business man and cattle man in the West, Is broken in health. Rheumatism and other debilities. Saws he cant work much. W...
The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Book Reviews
Gomes Eannes de Zurara
The first volume includes about half of the text, together with an Introduction on the Life and Writings of Azurara, which it is hoped will be found more exhaustive and accurate th...
While Princesses Sleep Book Reviews
Emma Right
The Princesses Of Chadwick Castle Adventure is an eightbook series about two princess sisters, Elle age 12, and Belle, 10.  The first book, While Princesses Sleep, is for ...
Otto of the Silver Hand Book Reviews
Howard Pyle
The story of little Otto, a gentle, peaceloving child born into the heart of turmoil and strife in the castle of a feuding robber baron in medieval Germany.
The High Crown Chronicles Book Reviews
Jodi Gallegos
When a crown is at stake, blood will be shed… The High Crown Chronicles is cinematic storytelling at its best. With stunning imagery, dynamic characters, and a slowburn romance, Jo...
One of Ours Book Reviews
Willa Sibert Cather
Claude Wheeler, the subject of the novel, is a young man growing up on a Nebraska farm. The son of well to do parents, Claude is troubled by his apparent inability to find purpose ...
Hope Mills Book Reviews
Amanda Minnie Douglas
It is a novel book. Chartered in 1891, Hope Mills can trace its beginning back to 1766, when due to the wealth of natural water power and the abundance of timber, a lumber camp, sa...
Boys Book Reviews
Anonymous
BBoys Anonymous is a freestyledance based club that welcomes all members of the UC Irvine and local community, regardless of experience or background in dance. Serving as an open e...
The Secret Witch Book Reviews
Jeff Severcool
It is 17th century New England, and for the people of Salem Village, all is seemingly well in “God’s land.” But Verity, one of the last orphans of the ministry, soon finds her Puri...
The North Pole Book Reviews
Robert Edwin Peary
This is a geography book. Some years ago I met at a dinner in Washington the famous Norwegian arctic explorer, Nansen, himself one of the heroes of polar adventure; and he remarked...
Les vacances Book Reviews
Sophie Ségur
Les grandes vacances sont arrivées au château de Fleurville. Camille et Madeleine de Fleurville, accompagnées de leurs amies Sophie Fichini et Marguerite de Rosbourg, accueillent l...
Nautilus Book Reviews
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
Originally published in 1895, Nautilus is one of Laura E. Richards’s most beloved stories. Nautilus is a book in the Captain January series.
The Story of Mankind Book Reviews
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
The Story of Mankind tells in brief chapters the history of western civilization beginning with primitive man, covering the development of writi...
The Keepers of the Trail Book Reviews
Joseph Alexander Altsheler
A light wind blew over the great, primeval wilderness of Kentucky, the dense, green foliage rippling under it like the waves of the sea. In every direction forest and canebrake str...
Queen of Someday Book Reviews
Sherry D. Ficklin
For fans of the Netflix original series, The Last Czars. Take a decadent look back at one of the most intriguing monarchs in history… “A must read romance!”~ Serena Chase, Special ...
A Little Girl in Old Salem Book Reviews
Amanda Minnie Douglas
This is a novel book. A Little Girl in Old Pittsburg is a novel for children set in late 18th century Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It opens in 1781 with the news of Lord Cornwallis’ s...
Frog in a Bunker Book Reviews
Vytautas V. Landsbergis
A story about a 12year old boy Adam, whose parents go to Ireland to work and leave him with his aunt in the remote Lithuanian village. Unexpectedly the boy finds himself tangled in...
Rujub, the Juggler Book Reviews
George Alfred Henty
"Rujub, the Juggler", is mainly an historical tale for young and old, dealing with the Sepoy Mutiny, in India, during the years 1857 to 1859. This famous mutiny occurred ...
The Little Duke Book Reviews
Charlotte Mary Yonge
The main character is Richard Duke of Normandy, the great grandfather of William the Conqueror. At the beginning of the tale he is a boy of eight, who succeeds to the dukedom when ...
The Scouts of Stonewall Book Reviews
Joseph Alexander Altsheler
The story of the Great Valley campaign, in Altsheler's Civil War series. This book is for young teenagers and is part of a series of books that tell the story of the American ...
Bomber Overhead Book Reviews
James Francis
Evacuee Jeffrey Fraser and his two friends must cope. when Marwell Village, intended as their place of safety, is shaken when a German bomber finds it. Jeffrey, Ginger and Arthur, ...
The Lances of Lynwood Book Reviews
Charlotte Mary Yonge
The story is set in the reign of Edward III. The hero, Eustace Lynwood accompanies his elder brother and his troop, the Lances of Lynwood, to France, and with them joins the Black ...
On the Kentucky Frontier Book Reviews
James Otis
It is my purpose to set down what I saw during such time as Simon Kenton gave me my first lessons in woodcraft and it is well to make the statement in advance in order that others ...
Balarian Book Reviews
Miguel Ángel Villar Pinto
¡ Bestseller internacional! ¡Miles de ejemplares vendidos! «Rigurosamente documentada, la obra aporta una visión fiel de la época medieval», El Ideal Gallego. Incluida en el catálo...
The Lion of Saint Mark Book Reviews
George Alfred Henty
A story of Venice in the 14th century, a period when her strength and splendor were put to the severest tests. The hero displays a fine sense and manliness which carry him safely t...
The Prince and the Pauper Book Reviews
Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two yo...
On the Irrawaddy Book Reviews
George Alfred Henty
The British waged three costly wars against the Burmese Empire during the 19th century. The costly wars took the lives of over 15,000 British and Indian soldiers. When the final wa...
Mary of Plymouth Book Reviews
James Otis
James Otis Kaler, known under pen name James Otis, was an American journalist and author of children’s literature, published over the 150 books for young readers.  “Mary o...

Best Paid Historical Books of 2024

Taken by the Enemy Book Reviews
Oliver Optic
A lively story based at the very start of America's great Civil War. I absolutely loved the nautical twist this book gave to a popular period in our nation's history. Oli...
The Caged Lion Book Reviews
Charlotte Mary Yonge
The novel opens in the year 1421. England, though engaged in warfare in France, enjoys peace and prosperity at home, but Scotland is in a state of anarchy. Its king, James I, the c...
Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours Book Reviews
Various Authors
The aim has been to keep the lists brief and to give short, practical outlines which may be extended. Since library storytelling is directed primarily toward inspirational reading,...
The Last Look Book Reviews
William Henry Giles Kingston
It is in the middle of the sixteenth century, and in Spain, where the Inquisition, and subsequent torturing and burning to death by the Catholic of those who would not agree to its...
The Betrayals of Ancestry Book Reviews
Amy Lunderman
If you knew of someone’s future plans, would you try to twist them to your liking? Find out, when two children of feuding Lords, take matters into their own hands. Prudence has alw...
The Texan Star Book Reviews
Joseph Alexander Altsheler
The story begins in Mexico City where Stephen Austin and his young friend Ned are in jail. Ned manages to escape and begins the adventure of traveling back to Texas to warn the oth...
The Minute Boys of Boston Book Reviews
James Otis
Archie Hemming is as straightheaded a boy as was ever raised in Boston town, and he insists that, while we are seemingly idling our time away here in the Cambridge camp, I ought to...
The Boy Crusaders Book Reviews
John George Edgar
It was the age of chain armour and tournamentsof iron barons and barons' warsof pilgrims and armed pilgrimagesof forests and forest outlawswhen Henry III. reigned as ...
Knowing Yourself - A Medieval Romance Book Reviews
Lisa Shea
Kay is entranced with the possibilities which lie before her. Five handsome, willing men are vying for her hand in marriage. The stakes are ownership of a medieval keep perched on ...
A Little Maid of Ticonderoga Book Reviews
Alice Turner Curtis
This is the story of a little girl whose home was among the Green Mountains of Vermont, then known as 'The Wilderness', at the beginning of the American Revolution; and a...
On The Blockade Book Reviews
Oliver Optic
The writer begs to remind his readers again that he has not felt called upon to invest his story with the dignity of history, or in all cases to mingle fiction with actual historic...
Voice of Gods Book Reviews
Eleanor Herman
"Readers who love myth and magic will devour it!" Alex Flinn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beastly "Fantasy just the way I like it." Cinda Williams C...
A Victorious Union Book Reviews
Oliver Optic
It is more than thirty years since the war began, and thousands upon thousands of the active participants in the strife as soldiers and sailors, including nearly all the great comm...
A Little Princess Book Reviews
Frances Hodgson Burnett
This book about Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
In Wild Rose Time Book Reviews
Amanda M. Douglas
This is a romance book. They dropped in at the open window, and landed on Virginia Deering’s lap. Her first impulse was to throw them out again, as she half said to herself, “I hat...
Sapho Book Reviews
Alphonse Daudet
Ces bouts de phrases, presque inintelligibles au milieu des cris, des rires, des airs de danse dune fête travestie, séchangeaient une nuit de juin entre un pifferaro et une femme...
Prince of Macedonia Book Reviews
Katherine Roberts
This first episode of Katherine Roberts' epic novel "I am the Great Horse" tells how the young Prince Alexander tames the spirited stallion nobody else could master,...
Pollyanna Book Reviews
Eleanor Hodgman Porter
I have married a mountain woman, he wrote. "None of your puny breed of modern femininity, but a remnant left over from the heroic ages, a primitive woman, grand and vast of s...
The Trumpet-Major Book Reviews
Thomas Hardy
It concerns the heroine, Anne Garland, being pursued by three suitors: John Loveday, the eponymous trumpet major in a British regiment, honest and loyal; his brother Bob, a flighty...
Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas Book Reviews
Various Authors
This collection of Indian stories is the first in a series of volumes of historic tales retold from "St. Nicholas". This bird, which, according to the Indian leg...
A Little Maid of Province Town Book Reviews
Alice Turner Curtis
It is a historical book. Plucky eight year old Anne Nelson, living in Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod, is determined to bring the Revolutionary War to an end so that she can be...
The Pigeon Pie Book Reviews
Charlotte Mary Yonge
The tale is set in 1651, at the close of the Civil War. The Royalists have been defeated at the battle of Worcester, and King Charles II and his followers are in flight. The chief ...
St. George and St. Michael Volume II Book Reviews
George MacDonald
Tensions are rising between king and parliament, the Church of England and the numerous independent puritans, and rumours abound that Charles I will soon declare open war on the di...
Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter Book Reviews
Alice Turner Curtis
This is a historical book. Sylvia Fulton, a little Boston girl, was staying with her father and mother in the beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina, just before the opening ...
The Drummer Boy Book Reviews
John Townsend Trowbridge
J. T. Trowbridge's story of young man's desire to go to war and the harsh reality that he faces on the battlefields. Also known as, The Story of Frank Manly's Advent...
The Shadow of the North Book Reviews
Joseph Alexander Altsheler
This book is a popular juvenile historical fiction. While an independent story, in itself, is also the second volume of the Great French and Indian War series.
The Shades of the Wilderness Book Reviews
Joseph Alexander Altsheler
This exciting fiction book tells about the civil war history. It is a part of the civil war series. This book is also meant for kids so as to relate to historical events.
Fast in the Ice Book Reviews
Robert Michael Ballantyne
At the age of 16 Ballantyne went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. His rule in writing, being in every case, was to write as far as possi...
The Dare Boys of 1776 Book Reviews
Stephen Angus Cox
Younger readers with an interest in history and battlefield action will appreciate this thrilling fictionalized account of the Revolutionary War. Part of the popular "Dare Boy...
With Frederick the Great Book Reviews
George Alfred Henty
Among the great wars of history there are few, if any, instances of so long and successfully sustained a struggle, against enormous odds, as that of the Seven Years' War, main...
The Lords of the Wild Book Reviews
Joseph Alexander Altsheler
This book tells the story of the times when settlers were trying it very difficult to establish themselves in the new land. The native Indians and the difficult geographical situat...
A Little Girl of Long Ago Book Reviews
Amanda Minnie Douglas
This is a novel book. A chance like this roused the children to a pitch of the wildest enthusiasm. Wonderful posters were put up. It was not considered a circus at all, but a moral...
Company K, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry Book Reviews
Andrew Brown
This is a history book. Since war has been teacher, farmer, business man and cattle man in the West, Is broken in health. Rheumatism and other debilities. Saws he cant work much. W...
The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Book Reviews
Gomes Eannes de Zurara
The first volume includes about half of the text, together with an Introduction on the Life and Writings of Azurara, which it is hoped will be found more exhaustive and accurate th...
While Princesses Sleep Book Reviews
Emma Right
The Princesses Of Chadwick Castle Adventure is an eightbook series about two princess sisters, Elle age 12, and Belle, 10.  The first book, While Princesses Sleep, is for ...
Otto of the Silver Hand Book Reviews
Howard Pyle
The story of little Otto, a gentle, peaceloving child born into the heart of turmoil and strife in the castle of a feuding robber baron in medieval Germany.
The High Crown Chronicles Book Reviews
Jodi Gallegos
When a crown is at stake, blood will be shed… The High Crown Chronicles is cinematic storytelling at its best. With stunning imagery, dynamic characters, and a slowburn romance, Jo...
One of Ours Book Reviews
Willa Sibert Cather
Claude Wheeler, the subject of the novel, is a young man growing up on a Nebraska farm. The son of well to do parents, Claude is troubled by his apparent inability to find purpose ...
Hope Mills Book Reviews
Amanda Minnie Douglas
It is a novel book. Chartered in 1891, Hope Mills can trace its beginning back to 1766, when due to the wealth of natural water power and the abundance of timber, a lumber camp, sa...
Boys Book Reviews
Anonymous
BBoys Anonymous is a freestyledance based club that welcomes all members of the UC Irvine and local community, regardless of experience or background in dance. Serving as an open e...
The Secret Witch Book Reviews
Jeff Severcool
It is 17th century New England, and for the people of Salem Village, all is seemingly well in “God’s land.” But Verity, one of the last orphans of the ministry, soon finds her Puri...
The North Pole Book Reviews
Robert Edwin Peary
This is a geography book. Some years ago I met at a dinner in Washington the famous Norwegian arctic explorer, Nansen, himself one of the heroes of polar adventure; and he remarked...
Les vacances Book Reviews
Sophie Ségur
Les grandes vacances sont arrivées au château de Fleurville. Camille et Madeleine de Fleurville, accompagnées de leurs amies Sophie Fichini et Marguerite de Rosbourg, accueillent l...
Nautilus Book Reviews
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
Originally published in 1895, Nautilus is one of Laura E. Richards’s most beloved stories. Nautilus is a book in the Captain January series.
The Story of Mankind Book Reviews
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
The Story of Mankind tells in brief chapters the history of western civilization beginning with primitive man, covering the development of writi...
The Keepers of the Trail Book Reviews
Joseph Alexander Altsheler
A light wind blew over the great, primeval wilderness of Kentucky, the dense, green foliage rippling under it like the waves of the sea. In every direction forest and canebrake str...
Queen of Someday Book Reviews
Sherry D. Ficklin
For fans of the Netflix original series, The Last Czars. Take a decadent look back at one of the most intriguing monarchs in history… “A must read romance!”~ Serena Chase, Special ...
A Little Girl in Old Salem Book Reviews
Amanda Minnie Douglas
This is a novel book. A Little Girl in Old Pittsburg is a novel for children set in late 18th century Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It opens in 1781 with the news of Lord Cornwallis’ s...
Frog in a Bunker Book Reviews
Vytautas V. Landsbergis
A story about a 12year old boy Adam, whose parents go to Ireland to work and leave him with his aunt in the remote Lithuanian village. Unexpectedly the boy finds himself tangled in...
Rujub, the Juggler Book Reviews
George Alfred Henty
"Rujub, the Juggler", is mainly an historical tale for young and old, dealing with the Sepoy Mutiny, in India, during the years 1857 to 1859. This famous mutiny occurred ...
The Little Duke Book Reviews
Charlotte Mary Yonge
The main character is Richard Duke of Normandy, the great grandfather of William the Conqueror. At the beginning of the tale he is a boy of eight, who succeeds to the dukedom when ...
The Scouts of Stonewall Book Reviews
Joseph Alexander Altsheler
The story of the Great Valley campaign, in Altsheler's Civil War series. This book is for young teenagers and is part of a series of books that tell the story of the American ...
Bomber Overhead Book Reviews
James Francis
Evacuee Jeffrey Fraser and his two friends must cope. when Marwell Village, intended as their place of safety, is shaken when a German bomber finds it. Jeffrey, Ginger and Arthur, ...
The Lances of Lynwood Book Reviews
Charlotte Mary Yonge
The story is set in the reign of Edward III. The hero, Eustace Lynwood accompanies his elder brother and his troop, the Lances of Lynwood, to France, and with them joins the Black ...
On the Kentucky Frontier Book Reviews
James Otis
It is my purpose to set down what I saw during such time as Simon Kenton gave me my first lessons in woodcraft and it is well to make the statement in advance in order that others ...
Balarian Book Reviews
Miguel Ángel Villar Pinto
¡ Bestseller internacional! ¡Miles de ejemplares vendidos! «Rigurosamente documentada, la obra aporta una visión fiel de la época medieval», El Ideal Gallego. Incluida en el catálo...
The Lion of Saint Mark Book Reviews
George Alfred Henty
A story of Venice in the 14th century, a period when her strength and splendor were put to the severest tests. The hero displays a fine sense and manliness which carry him safely t...
The Prince and the Pauper Book Reviews
Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two yo...
On the Irrawaddy Book Reviews
George Alfred Henty
The British waged three costly wars against the Burmese Empire during the 19th century. The costly wars took the lives of over 15,000 British and Indian soldiers. When the final wa...
Mary of Plymouth Book Reviews
James Otis
James Otis Kaler, known under pen name James Otis, was an American journalist and author of children’s literature, published over the 150 books for young readers.  “Mary o...

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