historical fiction

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historical fiction

The English patient

a novel
1993
The stories of four people reveal themselves during the final moments of World War II in a deserted Italian villa.

The man in the iron mask

1998
Presents the adventures of d'Artagnan, who battles political intrigues in the service of King Louis XIV in seventeenth-century France.

Enigma

1996
Tom Jericho has been called out of retirement to join in a race to crack the Nazi's secret code, Enigma, in order to save Allied troops from a deadly German attack.

The tin princess

1997
In 1882 sixteen-year-old Becky applies for a tutoring job in London and becomes embroiled in assassination, intrigue, and dangerous politics in the small European kingdom of Razkavia.

Kidnapped

1987
The story of young David Balfour, an orphan, whose miserly old uncle cheats him out of his inheritance, and schemes to have him kidnapped and sold into slavery. But after many adventures, justice triumphs.

The ruby in the smoke

2000
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.

O pioneers!

1989
Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.

Nostradamus

the man who saw through time
1995
A fictionalized account of the life of astrologer and physician Michele de Nostradame, who published prophetic verses in 1555.

War horse

2010
Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.

Sailing for gold

2004
Davey has been saving his money ever since his mother died so that he can leave the Seattle boardinghouse where he lives and works and go find his Uncle Walt in Alaska, and he becomes even more determined when gold is discovered in the Klondike and his stash of money disappears.

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