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Historical fiction — 68 PDFs & ePubs
68 classic historical fiction books · free in PDF & EPUB
Other centuries, rendered from the inside: revolutions, plagues, courtrooms, and barricades, written close enough to smell the gunpowder. Every historical novel here is free in PDF and EPUB — public domain, read online if you prefer, no sign-up.
Les Misérables is the genre at full scale — Paris, mercy, and the law's long shadow. War and Peace needs no defending; A Tale of Two Cities gets you to the guillotine in half the pages.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens at his tightest: love, sacrifice, and the guillotine's shadow over two cities.
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All historical fiction books
68 books, sorted however you like.
A Farewell to Arms
A Journal of the Plague Year
A Tale of Two Cities
All Quiet on the Western Front
Barnaby Rudge
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Captain Blood
Cleopatra
Death comes for the archbishop
Désirée's Baby
Germinal
Hadji Murad
Ivanhoe
Kidnapped
Laughing Boy
Les Misérables
Lorna Doone
Louise de La Valliere
Mary Stuart
Memoirs of a Cavalier
Montezuma's daughter
No More Parades
O Pioneers!
One of Ours
Oroonoko
Passing
Quicksand
Rilla of Ingleside
Rob Roy
Romola
Royal Highness
Scaramouche
Some Do Not...
Tales of the Alhambra
Ten Years Later
The Able McLaughlins
The Ballad of the White Horse
The Black Arrow
The Black Tulip
The Brethren
The Charterhouse of Parma
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Daughter of the Commandant
The Deerslayer
The Fortune of the Rougons
The Gadfly
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Last of the Mohicans
The Luck of Barry Lyndon
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Master of Ballantrae
The Pathfinder
The Pioneers
The Prairie
The Prince and the Pauper
The Red Badge of Courage
The Reign of Greed
The Rover
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Sea-Hawk
The Social Cancer
The Tavern Knight
The Three Musketeers
The Vicomte de Bragelonne
The White Company
Twenty Years After
Uncle Tom's Cabin
War and Peace