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Hornblower in the West Indies C. S. Forester · 1958 Horatio Hornblower, now Admiral, sails over seas as challenging as any in his victorious career. As admiral in charge of His Britannic Majesty's West Indies Station he is as gallant, daring, implosive as ever. In this tense time after Napoleon's defeat, all kinds of vagabonds, revolutionaries, Imperial Guards. and pirates come sailing into the waters where Hornblower is working his small… Shares Great Britain in fiction, Naval History, Sea Stories, War Fiction

Flying Colours

Flying Colours C.S. Forester · 1938 · ★ 4.2 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Hornblower faces charges of violating the laws of war and probable execution by Napoleon's French forces. Shares Great Britain in fiction, Naval History, Sea Stories, Adventure

St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald · 1876 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Challenging It was the middle of autumn, and had rained all day. Through the lozenge-panes of the wide oriel window the world appeared in the slowly gathering dusk not a little dismal. The drops that clung trickling to the dim glass added rain and gloom to the landscape beyond, whither the eye passed, as if vaguely seeking that help in the distance, which the dripping hollyhocks and sodden sunflowers… Shares Historical Fiction, History

Pan Michael An historical novel Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1893 · ★ 5.0 · 542p · ≈ 18h · Challenging The third and final book of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Trilogy takes a closer and more intimate look at one of the series’ protagonists: Pan Michael Volodyovski. The Polish Commonwealth has been through intense periods of war, and the peace that follows leaves one of its greatest heroes, Pan Michael, finally free to marry his beloved Panna Anusia. But in a twist of fate, she falls ill and dies, leaving… Shares Historical Fiction, History

The Ship With No Name Christopher Nicole · 1987 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The Dolittle Raid of April 1942 demonstrated to the world that the Japanese mainland, Tokyo itself, could be successfully attacked by a determined enemy, thus the cry went up for retaliation. The obvious solution is the destruction of that portion of the U.S. Navy that survived Pearl Harbor. But one man, flying ace and national hero Keiko Hatatsune, dreams of something even more dramatic,… Shares War Fiction, Historical Fiction

Le vicomte de Bragelonne, ou, dix ans plus tard Alexandre Dumas · 1848 · ★ 4.0 · 462p · ≈ 15h · Challenging In the months of March-July in 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV. They chronicled the adventures of a young man named D'Artagnan who, upon… Shares Historical Fiction, Adventure, History

Master and Commander

Master and Commander Patrick O'Brian · 1969 · ★ 4.1 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate This is book 1 in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Here is the maiden voyage of O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series, which follows the unique friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. O'Brian renders in riveting detail the life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy: the conversational idiom of… Shares Naval History, Sea Stories, Historical Fiction, History

The House Without a Key Earl Derr Biggers · 2015 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Published in 1925, The House Without a Key introduces the kindly detective Charlie Chan, conceived by Earl Derr Biggers as a counter to the “Yellow Peril” stereotypes common in the era’s society. John Quincy Winterslip, having been sent by his family to convince his aunt to return to Boston, arrives in Honolulu to find that a rich family member with a shady past has been murdered. Detective… Shares Adventure

Blue Hand Edgar Wallace · 1923 · ★ 4.1 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Jim Steele, a clerk for a prominent London attorney, has the distasteful task of assisting a notorious client, Digby Groat, who stands to inherit the Jonathan Danton fortune. Danton’s infant daughter and closest heir, Dorothy, was thought to have died in a boating accident twenty years ago. Adding to the mystery, Dorothy’s mother, Lady Mary Danton, also disappeared around the same time. Jim… Shares Adventure

The Emperor's candlesticks Baroness Emmuska Orczy · 1908 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Moderate The Emperor's Candlesticks (1899) is a historical novel by Baroness Orczy and was her first book as an author. Shares Adventure

The Awful Secret

The Awful Secret Bernard Knight · 2006 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares History with this book.

Home as found James Fenimore Cooper · 1800 · ★ 5.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares Historical Fiction with this book.

Dead Men's Money Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself… Shares History

The Lady of the Rivers

The Lady of the Rivers Philippa Gregory · 2011 · ★ 4.0 The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her house­hold for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's… Shares History

London

London Edward Rutherfurd · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 829p · ≈ 27h · Challenging “A TOUR DE FORCE . . . London tracks the history of the English capital from the days of the Celts until the present time. . . . Breathtaking.”—The Orlando SentinelA master of epic historical fiction, Edward Rutherford gives us a sweeping novel of London, a glorious pageant spanning two thousand years. He brings this vibrant city's long and noble history alive through his saga of ever-shifting… Shares Historical Fiction, History

A Darker Shade of Magic V. E. Schwab · 2015 · ★ 4.5 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate STEP INTO A UNIVERSE OF DARING ADVENTURE, THRILLING POWER, AND MULTIPLE LONDONS. Kell is one of the last travelers--magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes connected by one magic city. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, and with one mad king--George III. Red London, where life and magic are revered--and where Kell was raised… Shares Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Adventure

Irish Fairy Tales James Stephens · 1968 · ★ 3.5 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A collection of ten traditional tales of Irish heroes, kings, soldiers, magicians, poets, and madmen. Shares Sea Stories, Young Adult

Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson · 1880 · ★ 3.9 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as seen in Long John Silver — unusual for children's literature then and now. It is one of the most frequently dramatized of all novels. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perceptions of pirates… Shares Sea Stories, Historical Fiction, Adventure, History

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