Genre :: Historical Fiction (183 books)

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  #498

  Centennial

  by James A. Michener

  (3 Reviews)

  27 Points

  "Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of..."

  

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  #502

  The Pickwick Papers

  by Charles Dickens

  (5 Reviews)

  25 Points

  "The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the public career of the immortal Pickwick would appear to..."

  

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  #505

  Jayber Crow

  by Wendell Berry

  (1 Review)

  24 Points

  "I never put up a barber pole or a sign or even gave my shop a name."

  

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  #509

  The Three Musketeers

  by Alexandre Dumas

  (11 Reviews)

  24 Points

  "On the first Monday of April 1625, the market town of Meung, the birthplace of the author of the iRoman de la Rose/i, was in a wild state of excitement."

  

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  #525

  The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

  by Howard Pyle

  (6 Reviews)

  20 Points

  "In merry England in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades of Sherwood Forest, near Nottingham Town, a famous outlaw whose name was..."

  

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  #527

  The General of the Dead Army

  by Ismail Kadare

  (1 Review)

  20 Points

  

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  #538

  Waverley

  by Walter Scott

  (2 Reviews)

  17 Points

  "The title of this work has not been chosen without the grave and solid deliberation which matters of importance demand from the prudent."

  

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  #544

  A Fine Balance

  by Rohinton Mistry

  (3 Reviews)

  15 Points

  "The morning express bloated with passengers slowed to a crawl, then lurched forward suddenly, as though to resume full speed. "

  

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  #552

  The Bostonians

  by Henry James

  (1 Review)

  14 Points

  "Olive will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that."

  

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  #553

  The Old Wives' Tale

  by Arnold Bennett

  (2 Reviews)

  14 Points

  "Those two girls, Constance and Sopha Baines, paid no heed to the manifold interest of their situation, of which, indeed, they had never been conscious."

  

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