Books: What to Know
The Past, Dramatised
The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.
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4,053 historical fiction
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Ronald Morton; or, the Fire Ships: A Story of the Last Naval War
William Henry Giles Kingston · novel
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Rookwood
William Harrison Ainsworth · novel
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Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards: A Tragedy
Algernon Charles Swinburne · play
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Rose D'Albret; or, Troublous Times.
G. P. R. James · novel
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Rose Mather: A tale
Mary Jane Holmes · novel
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Rose o' the River
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin · novel
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Roughriders of the Pampas: A Tale of Ranch Life in South America
F. S. Brereton · novel
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Round Anvil Rock: A Romance
Nancy Huston Banks · novel
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Rounding up the Raider: A Naval Story of the Great War
Percy F. Westerman · novel
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Rowena & Harold
William Stephen Pryer · poetry
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Roy
Agnes Giberne · novel
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Ruby Roland, the Girl Spy; or, Simon Kenton's Protege
Frederick Whittaker · novel
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Rudy and Babette; Or, The Capture of the Eagle's Nest
H. C. Andersen · myth
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Rujub, the Juggler
G. A. Henty · novel
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Rule of the Monk; Or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century
Giuseppe Garibaldi · novel
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Rung Ho! A Novel
Talbot Mundy · novel
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Running Fox
Elmer Russell Gregor · novel
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Runnymede and Lincoln Fair
John G. Edgar · novel
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Rupert of Hentzau: From The Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim
Anthony Hope · novel
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Ruth Fielding at the War Front; or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier
Alice B. Emerson · novel
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Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound; Or, A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils
Alice B. Emerson · novel
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Ruth Fielding in the Red Cross; Or, Doing Her Best for Uncle Sam
Alice B. Emerson · novel
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Ruth of Boston: A Story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
James Otis · novel
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Ruth of the U. S. A.
Edwin Balmer · novel
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Sac-Au-Dos
J.-K. Huysmans · short story
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Saga of Halfred the Sigskald: A Northern Tale of the Tenth Century
Felix Dahn · myth
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Sailor Jack, the Trader
Harry Castlemon · novel
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Saint Bartholomew's Eve: A Tale of the Huguenot Wars
G. A. Henty · novel
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Saint Patrick
Heman White Chaplin · short story
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Salammbo
Gustave Flaubert · novel
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Sally Dows
Bret Harte · novel
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Sally Scott of the WAVES
Roy J. Snell · novel
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Salute to Adventurers
John Buchan · novel
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Samba: A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo
Herbert Strang · novel
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Samboe; or, The African Boy
Mary Ann Hedge · novel
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Sappho's Journal
Paul Alexander Bartlett · novel
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Saracinesca
F. Marion Crawford · novel
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Saragossa: A Story of Spanish Valor
Benito Pérez Galdós · novel
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Sarah Dillard's Ride: A Story of the Carolinas in 1780
James Otis · novel
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Sarchedon: A Legend of the Great Queen
G. J. Whyte-Melville · novel
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Sard Harker: A novel
John Masefield · novel
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Sarita, the Carlist
Arthur W. Marchmont · novel
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Saronia
Richard Short · novel
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Satanstoe; Or, the Littlepage Manuscripts. A Tale of the Colony
James Fenimore Cooper · novel
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Saul of Tarsus: A Tale of the Early Christians
Elizabeth Miller · novel
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Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania
Winston Churchill · novel
The story in one page
Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
A lawyer-turned-actor taunts the aristocracy until the country literally explodes around him.
Rafael Sabatini · novel
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Scarred Eagle; or, Moorooine, the sporting fawn. A story of lake and shore
Andrew Dearborn · novel