18th Century
Pyg: The Memoirs of Toby, the Learned Pig
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In the late 18th century theatrics and amusements abounded, and one famous act was Toby the learned pig, who was able to read ...Read Review
Privateer’s Apprentice
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultNautical
Jameson Cooper’s dream of becoming a printer like his father is dashed when his parents die of the pox and he is ...Read Review
Lovers
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Lovers is a short novel set in prerevolutionary France (1749) that illuminates a relationship between Balthazar de Créon, a nobleman, and a 15-year-old ...Read Review
The Prince’s Lady: Bresciano and the Baroness
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The lesson that I learnt from reading this book is that one should never, ever, judge a book by its cover. The novel’...Read Review
The Patriot’s Fate
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It is 1798, and Ireland is rising up against her British masters. Two friends, Crowley and King — the one Irish and the other British — ...Read Review
I, Hogarth
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Renowned artist William Hogarth, whose paintings and engravings illustrated the unfortunate and decadent lives of 18th-century London residents, is born in the London ...Read Review
The Stockholm Octavo
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The Stockholm Octavo is set in 18th-century Stockholm against the background of the last years of Sweden’s Golden Age and the spread ...Read Review
Tyburn (The Highwaymen)
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This e-book is the story of a highwayman and his female companion who made English roads unsafe at the end of the eighteenth ...Read Review
The Mirrored World
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The Mirrored World is a fictional memoir set in Russia just before and during the rule of Catherine the Great and details, with ...Read Review
Barbados Bound
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Portsmouth, England,1760: Penniless Patricia Kelley, the illegitimate daughter of a plantation owner in Barbados, stows away on board a ship bound for Barbados ...Read Review
