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Historical fiction — 70 PDFs & ePubs
70 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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A Farewell to Arms
A Tale of Two Cities
Barnaby Rudge
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Captain Blood
Germinal
Ivanhoe
Les Misérables
Lorna Doone
Louise de La Valliere
Montezuma's daughter
One of Ours
A hidden gem from this shelf
The Tavern Knight
Swashbuckling revenge and romance during civil war—masks off, swords out, hearts on the line.
Rob Roy
Romola
Scaramouche
Some Do Not...
Tales of the Alhambra
Ten Years Later
The Brethren
The Charterhouse of Parma
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Deerslayer
The Fortune of the Rougons
The Gadfly
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Last of the Mohicans
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Pathfinder
The Pioneers
The Prairie
The Prince and the Pauper
The Reign of Greed
The Sea-Hawk
The Social Cancer
The Three Musketeers
The Vicomte de Bragelonne
The White Company
Twenty Years After
Uncle Tom's Cabin
War and Peace