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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.
Masters of historical fiction
The authors who built the genre — all their books free in the library.
All historical fiction books
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A Journal of the Plague Year
All Quiet on the Western Front
Cleopatra
Death comes for the archbishop
Hadji Murad
Kidnapped
Laughing Boy
Mary Stuart
Memoirs of a Cavalier
No More Parades
O Pioneers!
Passing
A hidden gem from this shelf
The Tavern Knight
Swashbuckling revenge and romance during civil war—masks off, swords out, hearts on the line.
Quicksand
Rilla of Ingleside
Royal Highness
The Able McLaughlins
The Black Arrow
The Black Tulip
The Daughter of the Commandant
The Luck of Barry Lyndon
The Master of Ballantrae
The Red Badge of Courage
The Rover
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Tavern Knight