Historic Fiction Unlisted
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William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the …
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I, Claudius by Robert Graves (Vintage international)
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Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus lived from 10 B.C. to 54 A.D. Despised as a weakling and considered an idiot …
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The Journey to the West Volume I by Anthony C. Yu, 吴承恩 (The Journey to the West (revised edition), #1)
Anthony C. Yu's translation of The Journey to the West, initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the …
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East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the …
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Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War, it tells the …